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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

''A strategic triangle pointing East''

From Russia & India Report
By  Andrei Kislyakov

''China has already surpassed the United States in terms both of industrial production and export volume. The country will catch up with the US in terms of GDP by 2016-2018 and in military spending by 2025. The United States has been trying to adapt to a polycentric world after its efforts to consolidate a unipolar world failed.

The United States is overstretched at the moment. It is withdrawing troops from Iraq and preparing for a pullout from Afghanistan. America is also facing a huge budget deficit. According to estimates, the U.S. will have to borrow 30 cents on every dollar of public spending for the 2013 fiscal year. The majority of this borrowing will be from China.''

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