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15 Facts About China that Will Blow Your Mind
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admin on 03/23/2010 11:57:00
 
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.
SOURCES:
Business Insider February 23, 2010