Jim Rogers : China can stand on its own two feet when the United States in a recession

The U.S. is the largest economy in the world, and in my view it's in a recession now, and that's going to have an effect in many places. However, China has a lot of internal growth now which is independent of the U.S.—things like water, tourism, agriculture, or power generation. If the U.S. totally collapsed, people in agriculture in China are never going to know it because there's such a gigantic future there. in usnews.com