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Just three years ago, three of the top five banks in the world were American. Now, three are Chinese and only one is American. The Chinese have become an economic powerhouse and Barry Peterson reports the US is literally in their debt.

 

China is roaring크게웃다. It holds a trillion dollars of US government IOU(I Owe You)s more than any other country. The IOUs were loans to the US that funded America’s high spending lifestyle. And if China stops loaning money, that lifestyle is doomed파멸하다. “Average Americans are gonna see decline in their standard of living. We’ve simply squandered탕진하다our wealth lth. We've been living beyond our means for years and borrowing to do it and now we can't pay the bills.”

 

A sign of China's rise! Its prime minister recently lectured the US, like a first world country nervous about the health of a third world economy. I request the US, he said, to maintain its good credit and to guarantee the safety of China’s assets자산. China has even pushed for dumping the dollar as a world currency and replacing it with something new and, they suggest, more trustworthy믿을수있는.

 

China's economy is still small compared to the United States, but as the US shrinks, China is still booming and still on track for the long term. “They’re thinking about a 40 or 50 year time span기간. It’s quite clear at the end of that time that China will be certainly one of the two major economies in the world with the U.S. being the other one.”

 

What Americans aren't buying made for export items from speakers to socks to sewing machines are being snapped up잡아채다 here. And if at least China's economy is humming콧노래를 부르다, that's good for the US. “This is one of the few remaining hope that we can prevent the global recession from plunging into a great depression.” But China has problems that could stunt its growth with per capita income일인당 소득 of only $3,000 dollars a year, its own people aren't rich enough to buy all the products it once sold to the world. So many factories are shuttered폐쇄하다.

 

And an estimated 30 million are unemployed out of nearly 900 million workers. Six million more of this year's college graduates crowd job fairs, fearful they may join the jobless. Still, with America’s economic troubles, China sees the opportunity of becoming more important on the world stage. So that is why it is radiating영향력을 주위에 미치다 발하다 a new confidence, and acting more and more like the superpower it fully intends to be. Barry Peterson, CBS News, Beijing.

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