Canada 51st state after London falls

german infantryman
atk 5 def 5 move 2 cost 5
abilitys
attacks on a 8 vs russians.
defends on a 8 in an territory that has german in its name.

italian infantryman
atk 2 def 2 move 1 cost 4
abilitys
defends and attacks on 1 with german infantry present.
attacks and defends on a 6 in italy.
defends on a 4(10 if in italy) aganst russians

american infantryman
atk 2 def 3 move 1 cost 5
abilitys
atacks ona 6 during amphibious assaults.
becomes canadian infantry when incontact with canadian soldiers.
defends on a 9 in EUS CUS and WUS.

@Vance:

German….hits on a roll of 6 or less when fighting Polish women and children.

i like this one XD

japanese infantryman
atk 2 def 2 move 16 cost 10
abilitys
attacks pre emptivly with ninjas present.
defends on a 10 in japan okinawa and iwo jima.
moves 1 in china.
attacks on a 4 aganst chinese.

@MrMalachiCrunch:

Euro-crisis is becoming a global crisis and it’s not the US the world is leaning on for help.  It’s China, the next great super-power.  I like the US, they have done lot’s of good things in the world, but some have a sense of entitlement there.  I hope the US can manage the transition to being the world’s #2 super-power behind China.

I would say you might be right, but with Chinas minimum wage rising by 13% every year till 2020, they will soon find themselves in a similiar economic situation as the USA. In fact around 2015 you will begin to see alot of the manufactured goods made in china start to comeback to US to be produced.  People will want Quality over quantity again and “Made in the USA” will again mean something.

I do believe you r wrong, the world does lean on the USA for Support and has done so since WWII.  Now the Communist countries of the world May lean on china, but thats only cause the USSR doesn’t exist any more.

Sense of entitlement? what are we supposedly entitled to?

China’s economy Depends Heavily on the US $

I do however believe that Canada will be the North American Saudi Arabia soon. They Canada has more Oil then they want people to know.

ANZAC infantryman
atk 2 def 6 move 1 cost 20 hits 4
abilitys
moves on 4 with kangoroos present.
moves on 0 with slothes present.

british infantryman
atk 4 def 4 move 1 cost 15
abilitys
defends on a 12 in britian.
attacks on a 6 if theres tea present.
must be taken as last casualty if colonial troops are present.

chinese infantryman
atk 1 def 1 move 1 cost 2
abilitys
attacks and defends on a 100 aganst japanese aircraft.
can leave china.

1. China will quickly overtake the United States as the world’s most powerful economy.

According to a November poll by the Pew Research Center, 44 percent of Americans believe that China is already the world’s top economic power, while 27 percent put the United States in that position. That perception is completely at odds with the facts. This year, China’s economy is expected to produce about $5 trillion in goods and services. That would put it ahead of Japan as the world’s second-biggest national economy, but it would still be barely one-third the size of the $14 trillion U.S. economy and well behind the European Union, if taken as a whole.

2. China’s vast holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds mean it can hold Washington hostage in economic negotiations.

China has the biggest holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds of any country – around $1 trillion. Many people think this means China is “America’s banker” and that, like a bank, it can withdraw its line of credit by selling off its Treasuries whenever Washington does something Chinese leaders don’t like.

But China’s Treasury holdings are not like regular loans that a bank extends to a company. They are more like deposits: safe, liquid and carrying a very low interest rate. Like a depositor, China has little ability to tell its bank how to run its business. It can only vote with its feet, by taking its deposits elsewhere – but its deposits are so huge, there is no other “bank” in the world that can take them. The European and Japanese bond markets are not big enough to absorb that much Chinese cash, nor can China buy enough oil fields, ore mines or real estate to soak up its money. And it can’t simply invest all its dollars at home, because doing so could lead to rampant inflation. So like it or not, Washington and Beijing are stuck with each other – and neither has the power to hold the other hostage.

5. China’s economy has grown mainly through the cruel exploitation of cheap labor.

Every time a developing economy starts growing fast, richer countries accuse it of “cheating” by keeping its wages and exchange rate artificially low. But this isn’t cheating; it’s a natural stage of development that comes to an end in every country, as it will in China. China has grown in much the same way as other economies we now view as mature and responsible success stories – including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Those nations invested heavily in infrastructure and education, and quickly moved their workers from low-productivity jobs in rural areas to more productive jobs in cities. When rural labor was abundant, wages were low, but they rose rapidly after those surplus workers joined the urban labor force.

China is hitting that spot now: The number of young people of workforce entry age (15 to 24) is projected to fall by one-third over the next 12 years. With young workers more scarce, wages have nowhere to go but up. This is already happening: Last month, Guangdong province (China’s main export hub) raised its minimum wage by 20 percent.

China still has plenty of workers moving from the countryside to the cities, but the age of ultra-cheap Chinese labor will soon be gone.

Sorry for all the International finance info, But just trying to back up my statement that the Peoples Republic of China has a long way to go before they become the worlds #1 super power

i cant access the poll, how can i say that canadas the best when i cant vote!

:D canada is the best!

A bit off topic but……about China.

Chinese GDP figures often don’t include Hong Kong.  The current 2011 GDP figures call for a Chinese GDP of 7.5 trillion

I was predicting China was going to fall apart when I spent my free time at work watching the Tienanmen square event unfold in real time 1989.  Hmmm all they managed to do was grow their economy on average 10% a year for 22  years after that event.  The power of compounding means they double their economy every 7 years at 10% growth.  That means an 8-fold increased in their GDP since that event.  At this rate they will double their 7.5 terrabuck economy to 15 by 2019 and to 30 trillion GDP by 2026.  This seems so far away, so did 2011 back in 1989 when CNN was reporting rumours of tactical nukes being used in China during Tienanmen.

According to this site, the US and Chinese GDP will reach parity in between 2017-2018.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/chinas-gdp-update.html

Now since the US has or will have about 1/4 to 1/3 the population it will have much more surplus income.  China’s labour rates are increasing, but the jobs won’t come back to the US so much as those labour cost sensitive jobs will flow to surrounding areas like Vietnam and Bangladesh.  China does have a huge problem with an aging population.  Their policy of 1 child per family and increasing life span means their demographics will look like a mushroom, lots of old people on top supported by a small column of workers.  Again, this will not really benefit the US but will shift the advantage to India.

By 2050 the US will be the #3 world power behind China and India.

My comment about the US sense of entitlement…  Entitled to be the #1 power and world influence.  The US has been a fairly good world player, many other countries in recent history would have been a much less benevolent world master.  But the days of being the only world master, the only shepherd  as it were is over.  I like the US, I know lots of Americans, some of my best friends are Americans, well I have some American friends anyways…Heck my brother and sister have lived longer in the US than Canada.  I grew up and live 15 miles from the US.  I know you guys and for the most part like you.  That’s why I am so worried about the effects your political system is having on you as a nation.  I also worry you won’t make the transition to the #3 power very well.  The XL pipeline is a case in point.  Canada is going to end up selling our oil to China as it’s going to be less hassle.

@MrMalachiCrunch:

My comment about the US sense of entitlement……  Entitled to be the #1 power and world influence.  The US has been a fairly good world player, many other countries in recent history would have been a much less benevolent world master.  But the days of being the only world master, the only shepherd  as it were is over.  I like the US, I know lots of Americans, some of my best friends are Americans, well I have some American friends anyways…Heck my brother and sister have lived longer in the US than Canada.  I grew up and live 15 miles from the US.  I know you guys and for the most part like you.  That’s why I am so worried about the effects your political system is having on you as a nation.  I also worry you won’t make the transition to the #3 power very well.  The XL pipeline is a case in point.  Canada is going to end up selling our oil to China as it’s going to be less hassle.

You make some good points.  And you are probably right, most Americans probably feel some sense of entitlement, but with that is also a sense of under-appreciation.  Canada has always been cool with the US I think, and England too, but there are a lot of countries around the world that don’t give the US it’s due.  The US played the major part in ending Nazism and Japanese Imperialism yet so many other countries seem to have forgotten that.  Heck, France was a German possession until the US, with the Brits and Canadians, liberated them yet these days it seems like the French feel we owe them.  The US has bailed out many 3rd world countries with billions of dollars, which I’m sure is resposible for a lot of our national debt, only to have many of them want us to leave once they get back on their feet.
It’s just frustrating that we spend so much to help people around the world yet they act like we are just going to bully everyone with our money or our military.