[Jeff Head]

2006 is the year when it occurs in my fictional, techno-thriller

Dragon's Fury Series

I pray that the warning those novels are meant to represent does not develop into anything like reality.

But, IMHO, if we do not quickly face the ChiComms down, and prepare now for the econiomic consequences of treating then as Reagan did the Soviets...and for the same reasons, then we will face the economic consequences anyway and in addition we will wind up embroiled in a major, full-blown world war.

[Squantos]

econiomic consequences ........is just what I was thinking when I read this. Can we "afford" to fight china in 2006 ? Initially yes.... but is dependency so deep in the US for panda gold a recipe for Taiwans doom ?? Stay safe !

[hedgetrimmer]

Would Chinese farmers turn out in a popular uprising against their government if war broke out? They have suffered mightily at the hands of their oppressive government.

[tallhappy]

Thanks for the ping.

I think back in the Clinton days the ChiComs made a huge mistake in threatening LA. Any hope they ever had for taiwan ended on that day.

Kerry elected would be very bad. But our military know and are not without influence.