Those Chinese... always playing fair. /SARC
The Han Chinese, who are the ruling class and the majority of Chinese, have a two thousand plus year history of being utterly ruthless. We see this in Tibet, the Japanese are soon to experience it, and our day will come too. This is exactly how things will go when the Chinese want Taiwan, they will attack our financial markets, in various ways, but the effect will be the same as if our country was nuked. Our economy, which is already teetering on bankruptcy, will self-destruct. You will be bartering for any and/or everything you want. Bartering, in and of itself is a highly inefficient way to conduct business. Our companies will be unable to trade with international businesses, as we won’t have any currency to complete the transactions. You might think gold and silver will be enough, but there is nowhere near enough gold and silver in the world to conduct business on the scale that is currently conducted. It will spell an economic depression that will give new meaning to the word, and the depression of the 1930’s will be reflected upon in nostalgic terms compared to the depression the Chinese can cause.
We do know the stock market crash of 2008 was caused by a foreign government, or a cabal of very powerful hedge funds. This was reported on by the CIA in congressional hearings which were swept under the rug by the propagandists posing as mainstream journalists. If I was betting, I’d bet that it was done, by the Chinese government in a well coordinated attempt to replace the US currency as the world currency. That is their immediate goal, it is shocking that so many in our government can’t see who the real enemies are, and are so blinded as to not be able to do their jobs properly. This threat from the Chinese should be all that would be necessary to alarm a responsible government.