>>>There are only 3 blue water navies in the world. These are navies that operate and project their power effectivetly beyond their nation shores. France, the UK and the USA. I would have thought that Russia was on that list. In the next few decades Japan, Germany maybe China someday will join this club.
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>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_water_navy
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>>Don't get me started about China. I respect the way they have emerged from Communist shackles and become an economic force. Most economists I have read expect China to displace the U.S. as the world's leading economy sometime in the next few decades, perhaps as soon as 20 years from now.
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>That's impossible and is just scare mongering. It takes a long time for a nation to rise to an economic giant. 600,000,000 people in China make 2 dollars a day or less. China is expensive place to live, so this makes them poorer than Mexicans. The economic miracle is just cheap labour being exploited, which is something that the US economy is not primarily based on.
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>Let's get back to navies now.

You can get back to navies if you like. My prediction about China stands.