Jim Rogers : China on the rise, America on the decline.

Answering a question from the International business Times last week on when he thinks China's GDP will surpass the United States's  GDP Jim Rogers answered :" I have no idea. I know we can sit down and do the arithmetic, but that's rarely the way to do anything because projecting past occurrences into the future rarely works. I think the World Bank says by 2020. They're just extrapolating the present trend, first of all. Second, the World Bank has never been right about anything, so I'm sure they're not right about this either.
But to answer your question, I have no idea. I know that China is on the rise, and at least relatively, America is on the decline."
source : http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/43433/20100815/interview-jim-rogers-on-chinese-economy-yuan-policy-and-gm.htm

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