[af_vet_rr]

Everything the Chinese produce is junk.

They have the resources to make a lot of that "junk" and all you need is one piece of junk to make it through and you've got nearly $10 billion dollars worth of ship and aircraft at the bottom of the ocean, along with potentially thousands of dead Americans.

The Brits lost ships in the Falklands to what is now 40 year old technology, and the amount of technological advances over the past 40 years is staggering.

Go ahead and blow it off while you type out a reply on your Chinese-made computer that is published through your Chinese-made networking equipment, to be hosted on FR servers made up of Chinese-made hardware.

Rest assured, China is not going to engage in a physical/military war with the US - we are their biggest trading partner, and it would destroy their economy, which they've spent decades building up.

Besides, they also happen to be one of the largest holders of US debt and one of the biggest modern investors in the US in terms of land/infrastructure/businesses. They could do more damage to our nation economically with a few financial moves in a few days than they could do military-wise in a year.

You need to be a lot more worried about China's defense industry angling to take away foreign contracts from US aerospace and military manufacturers. Once they take those contracts away, those high-paying American jobs are gone for good, and our economy is in even worse shape.

[TomGuy]

China owns us.

Walmart owns China.

If Walmart and other chain stores stopped buying from them, it would have major impact on their economy.