Well, depends on how you're gonna do it. If it's going to be like British industry--i.e. a sickly, dying thing kept barely alive only by the life-saving medicine of the government--, China is certainly going to exceed America's products by 2011. If, however, it's like China's industry,--unrestrained and all-consuming--you will have a, paradoxically, less rich, but more productive nation in the U.S. While there will be a rather large elite of industrialists that are incredibly wealthy, you will also have an absolutely massive, exploited lower class and little-to-no middle class. It will have more exports than China though. But it will be, at best, a second-class superpower, much along the lines of the USSR, but with more liberal government.
I think you are confusing cause and effectWould China of 2011 be an industrial giant it is today or still a country of peasant farmers .
Well, depends on how you're gonna do it. If it's going to be like British industry--i.e. a sickly, dying thing kept barely alive only by the life-saving medicine of the government--, China is certainly going to exceed America's products by 2011. If, however, it's like China's industry,--unrestrained and all-consuming--you will have a, paradoxically, less rich, but more productive nation in the U.S. While there will be a rather large elite of industrialists that are incredibly wealthy, you will also have an absolutely massive, exploited lower class and little-to-no middle class. It will have more exports than China though. But it will be, at best, a second-class superpower, much along the lines of the USSR, but with more liberal government.
What if in the 1950's the start of the collapse of the midwest industry's had not happened .
And the Rust belt of the country was still the industrial power house it was in the 1940's .
Would China of 2011 be an industrial giant it is today or still a country of peasant farmers .