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Currently, an all-out war between the PRC and the United States is very remote.
China is hard pressed to keep up its economic rise so as to suppress potential unrest among its people. While the one-child policy has led to a higher percentage of boys, there is huge pressure on those [sometimes] single children to provide for their progenitors, not only their parents, but also their grandparents. A sizable proportion of young Chinese men dying in a war is almost guaranteed to spark an uprising within China. The United States and allies are currently by far China's largest trading partners. The trade sanctions imposed by a declaration of war would collapse the Chinese economy. Similarly, due in part to bad judgment, the United States is becoming more and more dependent on China. China is a major source of imports, and also one of the larger nations to which the United States exports--a sign of how bad the United States is currently with exporting, even with a cheaper dollar. With China's trillion dollar plus trade surplus, which has been used to buy plenty of American dollars, China is protecting the United States from the country's huge account deficit. If war is declared, China could conceivably collapse the American economy, too. So, total war between the United States and China (and it would almost have to be total war) seems to be far in the future, if at all. Posted on 10/10/2007 2:00:03 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail? ) |
Both were somewhat of a failure.