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To: Nonstatist
Japan and West Germany (their labor rate in the '50's was much lower than ours) gave it up, so dont be so sure.

Those were capitalist societies, who wanted to enhance societal wealth. Communist China's intentions are markedly more inimical, and adversarial...expressly wishing to displace the U.S. as the pre-eminent global power. The talk about the U.S. "Hegemon" is merely envious projection of their own designs.

131 posted on 06/08/2005 8:53:12 AM PDT by Paul Ross (George Patton: "I hate to have to fight for the same ground twice.")
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To: Paul Ross
Communist China's intentions are markedly more inimical, and adversarial...expressly wishing to displace the U.S. as the pre-eminent global power.

So you think they can keep a cap on dissent forever? That they can continue to disappoint the agrairian majority that wants a bigger piece of the pie, and keep the Tianamen activists at bay forever?

Where do you think their capitalist seed money comes from? It comes from expatriate Chinese. Its extremely premature to be suggesting the Chinese are willing to go to War(Cold or otherwise) over Taiwan or a bigger Pacific presence or whatever, and scare off all those offshore Chinese. Very premature indeed.

148 posted on 06/08/2005 10:26:43 AM PDT by Nonstatist
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