{"id":542723,"date":"2010-04-24T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864176.post-206356331440335695"},"modified":"2010-04-24T19:31:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T23:31:27","slug":"report-china-to-overtake-u-s-as-worlds-biggest-asshole-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542723","title":{"rendered":"Report: China To Overtake U.S. As World&#8217;s Biggest Asshole By 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion has a look at the rise of China and decline of the US &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/report-china-to-overtake-us-as-worlds-biggest-assh,17277\/\">Report: China To Overtake U.S. As World&#8217;s Biggest Asshole By 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to a new report released Monday by a panel of top economists and social scientists, the People&#8217;s Republic of China will overtake the United States as the world&#8217;s dominant asshole by the year 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, published in the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs, support recent speculation that America&#8217;s unquestioned reign as the leading super-prick may soon be drawing to a close, leaving China as the foremost shithead among all developed nations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are seeing a changing of the asshole guard,&#8221; said Andrew Freireich, noted economist and lead author of the article. &#8220;Although the U.S. will remain among the world&#8217;s two or three biggest cocks through much of this century, we can now confidently project that China, with its soaring economic growth, ever-expanding cultural influence, and total disregard for basic human rights, will overtake America as King Prick Numero Uno within the next 10 years.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2189376323632485\";\n\/* 728x90, created 5\/18\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3866831776\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/9864176-206356331440335695?l=peakenergy.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/x0VdPGiCYzUDMKY7ihQmLaMJpRc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/x0VdPGiCYzUDMKY7ihQmLaMJpRc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/x0VdPGiCYzUDMKY7ihQmLaMJpRc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/x0VdPGiCYzUDMKY7ihQmLaMJpRc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion has a look at the rise of China and decline of the US &#8211; Report: China To Overtake U.S. As World&#8217;s Biggest Asshole By 2020. According to a new report released Monday by a panel of top economists and social scientists, the People&#8217;s Republic of China will overtake the United States as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}