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04/14/2008: "China taking over"

Europeans have, for half a millennium, been unchallenged as the global colonisers, but last month the respected Economist magazine dubbed the Chinese "The New Colonists".

Canadian authorities were recently alarmed to find the Chinese interested in exploring the Arctic Ocean, in a bid to get a share of the minerals beneath the thawing icecap.

The West has long seen Africa as its backyard, but Western diplomats now worry that not just Africa, but South America, too, is being lost to China.

From Darfur to Myanmar, China is cuddling up to murderous dictators.

There is only one thing worse than an unchallenged superpower - it is a superpower with a victim mentality, which feels the world owes it a favour.

[ The whole article is worth reading, as it's a compilation of Chinese power advances around the globe. While the West choked itself on liberalism, and fought over the spoils of the last century, the Chinese powered ahead. Good work. ]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html%3Fin_article_id%3D559133%26in_page_id%3D1811