Posted on 07/16/2004 6:36:27 AM PDT by milestogo
They won't. They won't start something they can't finish.
Basically its the London Bobby approach.
"Stop, or I'll yell Stop! Again!"
In five to ten years they will. They are growing both in numbers and with the help of international companies in tech. Their will eventually be a shotting war between the US ans China. This is one of the reasons we need a missile defense shield.
You mean, like Imperial Japan? Even after Yamamoto (the designer of the Pearl Harbor attack) told them it was a bad idea?
Well, we've transferred all our manufacturing technology to them, even technology for small nukes (multiple re-entry) Why should we be suprised????
There will be no "conventional" war with China.
As we shift a large part of our manufacturing base to China, China will one day use Richard Nixon's famous policy................
"When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds soon follow!"
Close to 1.2 billion.
China's been rattling like this about Taiwan for decades. This is just the latest. They didn't do anything then and I doubt they will now or in the immediate future. It wouldn't be in their best interests, either economically or militarily.
All the technology the toon gave them.
We cannot even manipulate our currency against theirs to gain economic advantage (like some of our "friends") as they have pegged the Yuan to the Dollar. They are slowly limiting the options for retaliation.
Ever heard of COSCO?
Check it out.
Ask yourself . . .
How many PLA troops could China deliver to their container ports in So. CA, Mexico, both ends of the Panama Canal, their world's largest building in the Bahamas . . .
in say only 10-15% (or even in 3-5%) of the COSCO containers used across the Pacific?
Keep in mind PLA troops are used to low creature comforts. Keep in mind China has more than a little bit of a mentality quite comfortable 'living off the land.'
Keep in mind this would likely be AFTER terrorists et al had shredded what they could of our military and infrastructure.
Keep in mind that Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua etc., (with whatever help from North Korea), would not be standing by the sidelines wringing their hands.
Which is no doubt being tracked 24/7/52 by a combo of space, air and sea assets and would never get a single shot off if hostilities begin.
Of course, that's a two-way street. Who are they going to sell all that junk to, if not us? Imagine the political instability in China with its GNP in a tailspin, shuttered factories, and massive unemployment.
You guys should check out www.sinodefence.com.
Them buggers are catching us up. I give it ten years max until the shooting starts.
The puppet masters planned all this long ago.
Nixon was their stoolie along with the rest of them.
And peanut head was horrid. He insisted on waking Chiang Kai Sheck up at 0300 to tell him we were cutting relations. Arrogant!
Shrillery and Billdo happened to be deliberately complicit stoolies cheering the globalists on and trying to head the pack.
So we should just ignore those pesky laws we don't like, eh?
Are you talking about pre WWII?
I don't think China could win a conventional war with us but they really don't have much to lose either. They know we won't or probably can't invade them, and they have a real surplus of young men due to their forced abortion policy.
To: milestogo
Here it comes, I thought they were going to attack about two years ago or after 9/11. They will attack and they will come after us. Just what we need a two fronted war. Only fighting these chinks will be bloody.
3 posted on 07/16/2004 8:41:27 AM CDT by Lowell (The voice from beyond the edge!)
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