Posted on 05/27/2015 9:58:38 PM PDT by tcrlaf
After Chinese state media warned that war with the United States may be “inevitable,” Beijing has published a policy paper detailing how the military will shift its focus from land and coastlines to the open seas. China’s State Council released a white paper today that criticizes “external countries…busy meddling in South China Sea affairs” and sets out an “active defense” military strategy for the country.
The paper comes a day after an editorial (link in Chinese) in the state-run Chinese tabloid Global Times said conflict between China and the US will be unavoidable if the Washington doesn’t lay off Beijing for building islands and military facilities in disputed parts of the South China Sea.
“We do not want a military conflict with the United States, but if it were to come we have to accept it,” the paper said.
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If we lose—the whole of Asia will be over run by China. We will have to give up Guam and maybe Hawaii as well. A victorious China will demand we scrap all of our fleet and reduced out army and airforce. The Democrats will go along with this—for the sake of peace.
“Somehow I think China would just shrug that off.”
The Chinese banks and investors wouldn’t
Without the US to sell stuff to the Chinese economy would collapse
What can we do? Series.
Quick buy more shiite, errrrr I mean more free trade with China....
That will pacify the lil yellow basturds.
good grief, we cant even deal with a few barbaric rag heads with Obama leading us! How they heck are we going to deal with 1.3 billion Chinese?
We, the USA, are a long way from the Quemoy/Matsu dust-up (Kennedy/Nixon circa 1960), and much has changed in the world and especially in the USA.
Change is good....transformation is even better.
Ask all of the Obama voters or better yet ask all of the Conservatives that have endured this POS in office for the last 6.5 years.
Yes, the debt. Probably the only reason China will talk big and push Panty hose President just as far as they can without actually going to war. Just because they can and know they can get away with it.
Your points would be strong ones if nations put their economies first, but when it comes to war they usually have different priorities. Germany and Britain were each other’s largest trade partner in 1914.
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