Red Queen's Race

Mickey Mao-se
"Walt Disney has enlisted the help of China's 70 million-strong Communist Youth League"

"Chinese have started to embrace America’s modern ‘shop till you drop’ ethos and are in the midst of a buy-at-the-mall frenzy. Already, four shopping malls in China are larger than the Mall of America …"
Disneyification/MacDonaldization, the Great Mall of China:

China, next top dog or (/and) next roadkill?
Stockpiling Energy:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/HE23Cb06.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/24/content_4595091.htm
http://www.newsgd.com/news/China1/200605170018.htm
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/china_unveils_w.php
and Materials:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/26/business/yuan.php
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/10/bloomberg/sxchireserves.php
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30612

"Ancient Rome found that it had little except glass that China wanted to buy. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny complained about the eastward flow of Roman gold along the Silk Road in exchange for Chinese silk."

Mises: "Katastrophenhausse" aka crack-up boom or “flight from money”, "flight into real goods" ...
Mauldin: http://www.investorsinsight.com/print_preview.asp?id=jmotb102504
Rogers: http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,3604,1253093,00.html
http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05/wallenwein062405.html
http://www.gold-eagle.com/gold_digest_04/blumen092104.html
http://wallstreetexaminer.com/?itemid=381
Parsson: “Everyone loves an early inflation."
Catton: Overshoot
Jevon: new energy capacity is swallowed by new overshoot growth ...
(Peter principle)

"Each year, Beijing has at least one
sandstorm" (video)

Fossil water depletion and desertification

"Acid rain is ruining the nation’s croplands and threatening the food chain in rivers and lakes"

Warming exacerbates typhoons