Best China

Congratulations on a great editorial (Weekend Herald, August 13). We need to work with China, not succumb to the idea of holding China back.

China is today on a par with the US on the size of their economies and will outgrow the US based on its population of four times America.

Even at half of US GDP per capita, China will reach twice the size of the US economy. Almost all nations now have China as their main trading partner.

Lifting up to 500 million out of poverty is no mean feat. We all need to work together without military threats or unrealistic ambitions to dominate world affairs. Peace is a necessary criterium for prosperity. In the third millennium, surely we can find ways of peaceful co-existence. Frank Olsson, Freemans Bay.