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China’s Impact on the Global Economy Trade, Energy, and the Environment March 29, 2014 Robert Kaulfuss Professor of Economics Middlesex Community College BeyondEconomics.org

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China’s Impact on the Global Economy Trade, Energy, and the Environment. March 29, 2014 Robert Kaulfuss Professor of Economics Middlesex Community College BeyondEconomics.org. Per Capita GDP. Per Capita GDP 2013 (PPP), Wikimedia Commons. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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China’s Impact on the Global EconomyTrade, Energy, and the Environment

March 29, 2014Robert KaulfussProfessor of EconomicsMiddlesex Community CollegeBeyondEconomics.org

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Per Capita GDP

Per Capita GDP 2013 (PPP), Wikimedia Commons

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Balance of Trade:Foreign Exchange Reserves Minus External Debt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Country_foreign_exchange_reserves_minus_external_debt.pngBased on CIA World Factbook data

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Population

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China’s Growing Dominance?

Weighted average of the share of a country in world GDP, trade, and in world net exports of capital from Arvind Subramanian's “Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance”

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The American Dream

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Demographics

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China Adopts Fast Food

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China Adopts the Car Culture

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Insatiable Demand for Energy

Wall Street Journal

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Surging Demand for Oil

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Oil Prices in the Industrial Age

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The Easy (Cheap) Oil is Gone

WashingtonPost.com

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Biggest Contributor to CO2

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CO2 Levels (Now at 390 ppm)

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Arctic & Greenland Ice Melt•

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Is Economic Growth Sustainable?• Population growth and

congestion• Rising cost of energy• Climate change• Environmental degradation• Poverty, starvation, disease• Political conflicts, terrorism

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Their Moonshot and OursThomas Friedman, 9/25/2010

China Inc. just named its dream team of 16-state-owned enterprises to move China off oil and into the next industrial growth engine: electric cars.

Not to worry. America today also has its own multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing moon shot: fixing Afghanistan.

We need to be in a race with China, not just Al Qaeda. Let’s start with electric cars.

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The Next Era?