Thursday, September 11, 2008

China as an Island

This makes sense!

John Mauldin, an analyst at Investors Insight, came up with an awesomely useful idea: Instead of thinking of China as a huge land power, imagine them as an isolated island. Geographically, politically and demographically it makes a lot of sense.

John's idea is just part of a larger analysis of China to be found in this article, although the site was not responding today when I checked it.

The graphic is worth repeating. It is powerfully concise:



I found both the graphic and the link to the original article on Strange Maps, a blog worth watching.

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