# Why is it such a disaster if China passes the US to become the leading industrial nation?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 11, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-such-a-disaster-if-china-passes-the-us-to-become-the-leading-industrial-nation/581579 "2011-05-11T23:02:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-it-such-a-disaster-if-china-passes-the-us-to-become-the-leading-industrial-nation/581579/21 "2011-05-13T03:58:24Z")

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> [@Rodgers01](#):
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> I don’t care if the US is #2 (or 3, or 10, or 20), but I’d _much_ rather not have China be #1 in the world. At least not with its current government.

Ditto.

There are also the issues of intellectual property rights and business ethics. I’d rather that the #1 economy in the world be a nation that pays more attention to such things than China currently does.

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