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15 Facts About China that Will Blow Your Mind

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Posted by Dr. Mercola | March 23 2010

 

  • By 2025, China will build TEN New York-sized cities.
  • By 2030, China will add more new city-dwellers than the entire U.S. population.
  • China already consumes twice as much steel as the U.S., Europe and Japan combined.
  • If the Chinese, one day, use as much oil per person as Americans, then the world will need seven more Saudi Arabias to meet their demand.
  • There are already more Christians in China than Italy, and China is on track to become the largest center of Christianity in the world.
  • Chinese are far more likely to believe in evolution than Americans.
  • Chinese internet users are five times as likely to have blogs as Americans.
  • China has 150 percent more soldiers than America does -- plus a high tech 'Kill Weapon' the U.S. can't deal with.
  • China still hasn't rid itself of Europe's medieval plague.
  • Forty percent of Chinese small businesses went bust or almost went bust during the world financial crisis.
  • China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world COMBINED -- and uses mobile execution vans for efficiency.
  • China averages 274 protests PER DAY.
  • When you buy Chinese stocks, you are basically financing the Chinese government. Eight of Shanghai's top ten stocks are state-controlled arms of the government.
  • Fifty percent of counterfeit goods come from China.
  • The majority of Chinese drink polluted water.
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