Time to pull out the “Rape of Nanking” to get a good understanding of how the Chinese will see this as payback.
I cannot say that I blame them too much.
I bet we sit this out.
Or is this why we are not getting entangled with ISIS...we can only be one place at a time now.
Actually, that action, if it happened, might be the trigger that would cause the war. They would have no choice, just as Japan in 1941.
PRC, just like Putin’s sabre rattling has more to do with internal generation of support for a regime no longer in good favor.
That does not mean the PRC will not attack these speck-o-islands.
If and once we get a responsible POTUS, they will not confront us. If anything, the Chinese understand history.
If the Chinese cowardly attack like this, they’ll lose and lose big.
The author lost me at “firstly”, and with “secondly” he twisted the knife. :O
I will LOL when the ChiComs grab all of the USA manufacturing facilities in the name of the people and give US companies a "So Solly Charlie". Would be so good.
Gosh. A war with China. Maybe we can send in the Food Stamp Division followed closely by the Illegal Division and then send the Obamacare Division in on the right flank.
At one time it was a certainty that we would oppose China if they were to attack Japan or Taiwan. Especially with an Obama or Clinton (or certain Repubs) in the White House, I don’t think its obvious at all we would oppose them. We might make impassioned speeches and move aircraft carriers around the Pacific, but actually pull the trigger and send Chinese boats and planes to the bottom, no.
They have already put us on notice that opposing them might cost us Los Angeles. And I believe a good percentage of American politicians have been coopted by the Chinese in any case.
But we should not be passive in the face of a Chinese push. They see their natural outer border as Guam.
Why China Will Lose the War It is Planning.
NOT WITH OUR PRESIDENT.
Big assumption: US/Japanese counterattack.
Japanese counterattack? Sure.
The Japanese aren’t stupid. If they aren’t ready for this, shame on them. I know how they feel about being Japanese, and about their homeland.
They may love the ‘Pease Constitution’, but they don’t live in windowless rooms. These folks live in a society that accepts that plans are made 100 years out. Families sign 100 year mortgages.
If you’re China, you’d better be ready. A single carrier isn’t going to get the job done either. Chinese amphibious capability is still not what it needs to be get it done either.
Would Japan use a nuke? Why not? It worked on them. Nobody adapts to new methods, techniques, and technologies more pridelessly than the Japanese. Any new idea, no matter where it comes from, is something they’ll adopt.
It would certainly alter the world economy, though. Cheap manufactured goods, down. U.S. debt, canceled out. Foreign markets for those goods they still could produce, hostile. International finance, frozen. For a sprinkling of islands and maybe some potential oil assets in the Spratly islands that they couldn't exploit anyway? I don't think so. The Chinese are smarter than that.
Now, Taiwan, that's another matter. They might risk quite a lot for Taiwan.