(April 27, 2011 at 10:16 pm)theVOID Wrote:(April 27, 2011 at 4:29 pm)Chuck Wrote: BTW, I am not sure what the meaning of the phrase in the title "world economic core", is.
Not my language, I had assumed it was a mix of their becoming the largest sovereign nation in terms of the size of the economy, their currency rapidly gaining purchasing power, the pervasiveness of their manufacturing sector and the trends of financial institutions setting up major offices - I agree the term 'core' doesn't really work, but that's the sense I got.
They know they can't have those 2 at the same time