I remember a couple of months ago the price of scrap metal went up because China and India were buying ridiculous amounts to build up there infrastructure
A huge amount of that scrap metal was stolen from pipes, cables, etc. from our country (South Africa). It has been a huge problem, and one of the main causes is that the Chinese government gives a blind eye to illegal imports such as this.
Anyway, I may be biased, but I would love to see an African country for once as a superpower. Highly unlikely, but would make a change.
Whoever emerges as the world super power, it doesn't really matter to us. Even if the world super powers went to nuclear war, we can just lurk away as we always have.
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Here the petrol price is still about US$1.14 per liter. That is US$5.18 a gallon.
Now compound that with the fact that our cars are over twice the cost of those in USA, and our salaries are about a third of that of USA.