From a strategic viewpoint why should China rush. She has no foreign wars or obligations with her military. The only flashpoint with the US is if Taiwan declares independence. Other then that China has retreat positions if she cannot bluff her way to what she wants. China can afford to build space station, mission to the moon and aircraft carrier operations at a leisurely pace while her economy expands and her foreign reserves increases as the US decreases. Look up www.globalfirepower.com. China is distant third to US in defense but she has $ 2600 trillion in foreign exchange reserves while the US can only muster $ 150 trillion and decreasing from deficit spending. China’s strength is fiscal not military. Without firing a shot the US due to crippling debt is forced to reduce her military forces and pull back from the world, while China simply fill in the vacuum created. This does not mean China is perfect. She has internal and cultural weakness. The US had the same problems in her rise to world power. War of Southern Succession (American Civil War), racial inequality, labor and environmental abuses is part of our industrialization process. US resolved it thru our Constitutional, Christian, and democratic ideals. China has survived dynastic changes and upheavals and has centuries of experience and the modern world for her leaders to choose from to resolve their own internal social issues.
You make some very good points.
The major difference between China and the U.S.A. is that we never stop at frontiers, we just plow on ahead. China did stop once it grew to a certain size and then hesitated to explore overseas even though possessing a sizable navy. The China of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ottoman Empire in what is present day Turkey, were the superpowers of circa 1500 AD.
If anyone then had said that by 2000 AD, millions of people world-wide would live in wealth because of an industrial revolution centered in what was then a rustic Europe and a wilderness in North America, that person would have been considered insane.
We’ve come a long way, and I don’t for a moment believe it is over.
However this election is very important, because the wrong person as President will destroy this nation and set us back. Our military for the past twenty years or so has been used to police the world and maintain security for international commercial interests. This is called Globalism. Romney and the Bush coterie support it, and it is bankrupting the nation. These elitists don’t give a damn about anyone’s God-given rights. All they care about is keeping themselves in power and lucre.
Excuse me, but did you say TRILLIONS there?
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