one more fashionable extrapolation of chinese economic power by 2030 by another economic journalist

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/09/global-economic-dominance?fsrc=nlw|newe|09-09-11|new_on_the_economist

there is the implicit assumption that somehow there will be a:

1) straight line continuation of chinese growth

2) total disaster in the west

both may well become true, but at least out of self-interest the americans will try to avoid (2)