[Lancer_N3502A]

Oh Oh Oh! I've been saying that for FIVE YEARS. China is EXACTLY where Japan was in 1930. Over-populated, out of room and out of resources. They'll make the same play Japan did and we'll fight the Pacific War all over again.

[Chanticleer]

How can China be out of room? Isn't it huge, er, hugh?

[wolfcreek]

Over-populated, out of room and out of resources

Sounds like Japan now. Why attempt to invade them?

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I think you're right. But if China is going to attack anywhere, it's going to be north, not east and south like the Japanese did in 1941. And to top it off, Russia is selling the Chicoms the very same high-tech weapons that the PLA will then use to attack Russia. Shades of the Hitler/Stalin non-agression pact in 1939. Those who forget history yada yada yada.

[IGOTMINE]

Disagree.

The Chinese will head north into Siberia.

[Jeff Head]

Interesting...I wrote an entire series regarding that exact type of scenario starting...over five years ago, and finishing up in late 2004.

The Dragon's Fury Series.

[Southack]

"China is EXACTLY where Japan was in 1930. Over-populated, out of room and out of resources. They'll make the same play Japan did and we'll fight the Pacific War all over again."

No, not "exactly."

China today has the U.S. as its largest customer; Japan in 1930 did **not** have that situation. It was reversed, actually. Japan in 1930 bought its oil from the U.S.

Japan had limited options to replace its energy needs when U.S. oil was embargoed...options that required either military conquests or political retreat.

China today is in a very different situation. It can't expand its exports by invading other countries.