'Chinese' tequila worries Mexico

'Chinese' tequila worries Mexico is the latest headline to be found on the BBC webpage. The article contends that Mexican lawmakers are fearful that Chinese and Japanese buisness interests are beginning to market their own brand of the beverage in competition with Mexican varieties. I find it hilarious, and a confiming send off, that China and Asia have begun to move into other spheres of buisness to create competiton in markets that now are affecting other countires other than the US. While liqour sales and production varies worldwide, this move by the Chinese only solidifies my understanding that the world economy is moving (or has moved) East, back to its origins, which date to the Southern Song dynasty, 1100 AD. I feel that as Americans we should begin to wake up to this fact and stop thinking about ourselves as the number one economic country in the world. Credit cards, housing, and the military industrial complex are what keeps our economy going. America basically produces very little today. And as our housing market has rescinded, and as the military industrial complex has never benifited the American people, we must understand that Credit card debt will only get called in later. We need to right this ship now so that we can compete in the global economy and not get left in the dust of China, which has a sixth of the worlds population, an authoritarian government that can control its populace better, and the impressive (aggressive capitalistic exploitative) modern history of Europe (and its own much vaster cultural history) to look at as an example of what and what not to do. The mexican government seems to be in an uproar over tequila because they fear that they will no longer have a place in the world economy. They don't want Jose Cuervo "made in China" (although Tsing-Tao Beer is much better than most domestic brands includung the Mexican import Corona in my own opinion, so maybe Mexico should let the Chinese have a crack at it). The US should follow suite and find its own producing niche because we need to realize we are not the center of the world, we are a part of it. As such, to live in the new/old economic world order we have to begin producing again. We can't sell guns, and mastercards forever and expect be leaders in the world. There is little choice for us. In my own opinion the next step in energy production is where the US should concentrate its efforts since no one is in the lead in that sector... unless you count Brazil. Its either that or as Retired Major Gene Duncan once said "if we can't protect ourselves abroad, then we might as well pull all of our troops home, close off the borders, and arm ourselves to the teeth!" Sounds alot like isolationist Japan in 1640... makes me want to run to the store for a bottle of Chinese Tequila since we know how that one turned out.