[endthematrix]

The Red Army shipping low cost crap to a Wal-Mart near you!

If Wal-Mart was listed as a nation, it would represent China's FIFTH largest trading partner...FIFTH!!!

Remember Hutchison-Whampoa and Global Crossing?

BTW, hello! long time lurker, newbe member here!

[taiwansemi]

What is so surprising about China's trying to control shipping lanes? China is the major trading/shipping nation on Earth. China's simply got a whole lot more stuff to ship than most other countries. They've got a bigger economic interest in keeping shipping lanes open than probably even the U.S. If you're a major shipping nation, you'd be stupid not to try to safeguard the world's major shipping lanes, using your military if necessary to do it. Looking back at history, every great economic power on Earth has had an interest in major shipping lanes, and China is the latest global economic power.

[Brian Allen]

<< If Wal-Mart was listed as a nation, it would represent China's FIFTH largest trading partner...FIFTH!!! >>

Wal-Mart is the American Dream writ about as large as it gets! Forty years ago there was no Walmart and now it is the biggest retailer there has ever been on God's green Earth!

Is that why you hate it so?

You aught to keep in mind that of seven dealy sins, only envy has now upside, no attached fun.

And that its inevitable consequences are hatred and rage!

Love Walmart -- just don't buy anything made in "china" from it.