Is China a threat for the United-States?

The People’s Republic of China, commonly known as China is located in East Asia and has the biggest population in the world with more than 1.3 billion people. It is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party of China. For a very long period, China had been under an autocratic socialist system where strict controls were imposed but after 1978, when Deng Xiaoping succeed to Mao and came to power he established a market-oriented economic development and for the last decade permitted the country to quadruple its outputs. Due to its large population, its economic growth and climate issues China became a real threat for western countries and especially the United States, the actual most powerful country in the world.

Knowing that the United States’ economy is the largest national’s economy in the world, it is a democracy with capitalist system and it is ethnically diverse it is at the total opposite of the China’s system. Is there going to be a reversal of global leader? Is China a real threat for the United States? The purpose of this paper is to answer these questions by considering multiple criteria that tend to come to the conclusion China can be the new United-States.

China is the most densely inhabited country in the world with an exceeding population of 1.3 billion that is to say than one-fifth of the world’s population lives in China. In 1999, Chinese people represented 22 percents of the global population (without counting Honk-Kong, Taiwan and Macao, which are special administrative regions). Since 1950, China has considerably accelerated its demographic transition going from 582 millions in 1950 to more than 1 billion in 1990. This enormous population represents a threat for the United-States at several levels. First of all, knowing that the average number of children per household in the United-States is 1.83 and the American population is 307,006,550 millions we can clearly see the difference in