We are all time travelers. We travel at the rate of 1 year per year.
China is a communist state with a capitalist economy.
The US is the world's biggest debtor nation. Washington DC is the murder capital of America. Germany has become a united nation while Yugoslavia has broken into little bits. Lech Valesa has become the widely ridiculed president of a free Poland. The US has recently fought a high-tech war in Iraq that left its dictator in place and restored a feudal aristocracy to power in Kuwait.