1. 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

2. Per Capita GDP
Per Capita GDP 2013 (PPP), Wikimedia Commons

3. Balance of Trade: Foreign Exchange Reserves Minus External Debt
Based on CIA World Factbook data

4. Population

6. China’s Growing Dominance?
Notes: This index is weighted average of the share of a country in world GDP, trade, and in world net exports of capital. The index ranges from 0 to 100 percent (for creditors) but could assume negative values for net debtors. The weights for this figure are 0.6 for GDP (split equally between GDP measured at market and purchasing power parity exchange rates, respectively; 0.35 for trade; and 0.05 for net exports of capital.  
"This chart from Arvind Subramanian's new book, 'Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance,' is interesting in three respects. First, it tracks broadly the economic dominance of the previous two superpowers, the United States and Great Britain. Second, it suggests today that China has come close to matching the United States in terms of dominance.  Third, it suggests that under conservative assumption about economic growth for China and the United States, by 2030 the world may well see a G-1, with China as the economic hegemon." -- Steven R. Weisman, editorial director, Peterson Institute for International Economics
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”

7. The American Dream

10. Demographics

11. China Adopts Fast Food

12. China Adopts the Car Culture

13. Insatiable Demand for Energy
Wall Street Journal

14. Surging Demand for Oil

15. Oil Prices in the Industrial Age

16. The Easy (Cheap) Oil is Gone
WashingtonPost.com

17. Biggest Contributor to CO2

18. CO2 Levels (Now at 390 ppm)

19. Arctic & Greenland Ice Melt

20. Is Economic Growth Sustainable?
Population growth and congestion
Rising cost of energy
Climate change
Environmental degradation
Poverty, starvation, disease
Political conflicts, terrorism

21. Their Moonshot and Ours Thomas 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.

22. The Next Era?