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Fareed Zakaria Wants Mitt to Know it's a Whole New World Out There (crooksandliars)

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Mitt Romney says so many provably false statements in his stump speeches that
it's hard to know where to begin to tear them down. Apparently, for Fareed
Zakaria, when you use the title of his book out of context, that gets him in
fact checking mode. What is obviously intended to be a red meat, "Obama hates
America", jingoistic rallying cry for Romney's followers is a matter of great
discussion on _Fareed Zakaria GPS _weekly. Set the record straight, Fareed:

> In 1990, China represented 2% of global gross domestic product. It has
quadrupled, to 8%, and it's rising. By most estimates, China's economy will
become the world's largest between 2016 and 2018. And this is not simply an
economic story. China's military capacity and reach are also expanding.
Beijing's defense spending is likely to surpass America's by 2025.

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> It's not just China that's rising. Emerging powers on every continent have
achieved political stability and economic growth and are becoming active on
the global stage. Twenty years ago Turkey was a fragile democracy, dominated
by its army, constantly in need of Western economic bailouts. Today, Turkey
has a trillion-dollar ...

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