I received an e-mail forward with several photos of a new Chinese bridge, and a bunch of facts about China that are rather scary for an American citizen.



    China opens record breaking 4,000 ft long bridge.  If you are not interested in bridges just skip to the end and start reading where the # begin. This information will SHOCK YOU!!!Aizhai  Bridge in Hunan province is 336 m (1,102 ft.) high and has a 1,176 m (3,858 ft.) span. It connects two traffic tunnels in the mountains, cutting the time needed to traverse the canyon from 30 minutes to 1 minute. Construction  took five years. Work finished at the end of last year, making it the world's longest and highest  suspension bridge.Note that the person below is 1102 feet above the ground and is sweeping the dirt off this twenty first century Engineering marvel with a broom that was designed centuries ago and has no safety line.

     
    A brave worker put the final touches on the Anzhaite Bridge .

     
    Blasting and coating this steel superstructure in a couple of decades will be an interesting project.

     
    Pedestrians walk along it on a special walkway under the road.

     

     
    The bridge, which connects to two tunnels, was built to ease traffic.

     

    Drivers can take in the views of the Dehang Canyon.

     
    People and traffic during the Opening Ceremony. Vehicles motor along a two-way, four-lane motorway.

     





    Chinese Supremacy





       This article, though aimed at a US audience, gives a scary insight into China's growing economic power.
     
     
      A Little Known Reality:
     




    June 8, 2013. Source: Michael Snyder, Guest Post





    In future China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States. Chinese acquisition of U.S. Businesses set a new all-time record last year, and it is on pace to shatter that record this year.





    The Smithfield Foods acquisition is an example.  Smithfield Foods is the largest pork producer and processor in the world.  It has facilities in 26 U.S. States and it employs tens of thousands of Americans.  It directly owns 460 farms and has contracts with approximately 2,100 others.  But now a Chinese company has bought it for $ 4.7 billion, and that means that the Chinese will now be the most important employer in dozens of rural communities all over America.





    Thanks in part to our massively bloated trade deficit with China, the Chinese have trillions of dollars to spend. They are only just starting to exercise their economic muscle.





    It is important to keep in mind that there is often not much of a difference between "the Chinese government" and "Chinese corporations".  In 2011, 43 percent of all profits in China were produced by companies where the Chinese government had a controlling interest in.





    Last year a Chinese company spent $2.6 billion to purchase AMC entertainment - one of the largest movie theater chains in the United States. Now that Chinese company controls more movie ticket sales than anyone else in the world.





    But China is not just relying on acquisitions to expand its economic power. "Economic beachheads" are being established all over America. For example, Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group, Inc. recently broke ground on a $100 million plant in Thomasville, Alabama.  Many of the residents of Thomasville, Alabama will be glad to have jobs, but it will also become yet another community that will now be heavily dependent on communist China.





    And guess where else Chinese companies are putting down roots? Detroit. Chinese-owned companies are investing in American businesses and new vehicle technology, selling everything from seat belts to shock absorbers in retail stores, and hiring experienced engineers and designers in an effort to soak up the talent and expertise of domestic automakers and their suppliers. If you recently purchased an "American-made" vehicle, there is a really good chance that it has a number of Chinese parts in it. Industry analysts are hard-pressed to put a number on the Chinese suppliers operating in the United States.





    China seems particularly interested in acquiring energy resources in the United States. For example,  China is actually mining for coal in the mountains of Tennessee.  Guizhou Gouchuang Energy Holdings Group spent $616 million dollars to acquire Triple H Coal Co. in Jacksboro, Tennessee. At the time, that acquisition really didn't make much news, but now a group of conservatives in Tennessee is trying to stop the Chinese from blowing up their mountains and taking their coal.





    And pretty soon China may want to build entire cities in the United States just like they have been doing in other countries. Right now China is actually building a city larger than Manhattan just outside Minsk, the capital of Belarus.





    Are you starting to get the picture? China is on the rise. If you doubt this, just read the following:





    # When you total up all imports and exports, China is now the number one trading nation on the entire planet.





    # Overall, the U.S. has run a trade deficit with China over the past decade that comes to more than 2.3 trillion dollars.





    # China has more foreign currency reserves than anyone else on the planet.





    # China now has the largest new car market in the entire world.





    # China now produces more than twice as many automobiles as the United States does. After being bailed out by U.S. taxpayers, GM is involved in 11 joint ventures with Chinese companies.





    # China is the number one gold producer in the world.





    # The uniforms for the U.S. Olympic team were made in China.





    # 85% of all artificial Christmas trees the world over are made in China.





    # The new World Trade Center tower in New York is going to include glass imported from China.





    # China now consumes more energy than the United States does.





    # China is now in aggregate the leading manufacturer of goods in the entire world.





    # China uses more cement than the rest of the world combined.





    # China is now the number one producer of wind and solar power on the entire globe.





    # China produces 3 times as much coal and 11 times as much steel as the United States does.





    # China produces more than 90 percent of the global supply of rare earth elements.





    # China is now the number one supplier of components that are critical to the operation of any national defense system.





    # In published scientific research articles China is expected to become number one in the world very shortly.





    And what we have seen so far may just be the tip of the iceberg. For now, I will just leave you with one piece of advice - learn to speak Chinese.  You are going to need it!

Perhaps God is bestowing His blessings on the Chinese, will convert them and wash his hands of us apostates in Europe and America.

I wouldn't bet against your surmise. The West hasn't simply ignored the wedding invitation; it has smeared it with feces and sent it back to the inviting Host.

What is more, all this "watch out, here come the Chinese" hysteria ignores several pertinent facts, the two most prominent being these:

(1) There is every reason to think that the historical Chinese disinterest, bordering on contempt, for the doings of any part of the world not immediately contiguous with China has not budged an inch. China's age-old term for itself, the Middle Kingdom, has always been meant to indicate a consciousness of itself as the center, the navel, of the world and to underline Chinese indifference to the world's periphery. (The story of Cheng Ho, the sole exception to this rule in recorded Chinese history, is worth investigating in this regard; especially noteworthy is what was done to his enormous fleet after his death.)

Furthermore, any Chinese worries about the United States in particular should surprise no one who thinks Americans should take an aggressive stance toward any nation whose warships ceaselessly patrol US shores, often within a few miles of offshore territorial limits (the point being that this, mutatis mutandis, is precisely what the USA has been doing along the Chinese seashore for six decades).

(2) Virtually all of the Chicken Little cries about China come from the neocons and their openly liberal fellow Tribesmen. This subversive Jєωιѕн bloc, which now rules these shores with an iron hand, has transformed the United States (along with the formerly Christian and ethnically cohesive nations of western Europe, including Britain) into a country that has changed beyond all recognition—for the worse, needless to say—since my childhood sixty years ago. Should the day ever come when this bloc publicly points to itself as the principal danger to the West's survival as an entity fit to survive, then and only then will I cease to disbelieve every word issuing from a Tribal source.