[Colorado Doug]

Just because the Chinese are A race does not mean that it has anything to do with race. You use the example of punching a random Chinese person. If that random Chinese person has indicated that he has intentions of killing you while brandishing a weapon, then please explain how your example of punching said Asian in self defense is racist. There is no difference between the single Chinese man or the Chinese nation that wishes to do harm. Remove the prefix "Chinese" and you can better understand that race has zero to do with it. So please spare yourself the embarrassment of throwing down the race card.

China will act in its own self interest whether that means war or not. It's foolish to be Pollyanna about it though and not be prepared for any eventuality. No peace has ever been won through weakness.

I think that you know that nobody here advocates blowing up Three Gorges Dam for the fun of killing a bunch of Chinese but if the Chinese want to play unlimited warfare, everything should be on the table. Unlimited for all. Such an attack would not even be an escalation to a biological weapons attack against the population of the USA. It would be a measured and logical beginning of our response. China needs to know this. That is what made M.A.D. work with the Soviets.

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I think that you know that nobody here advocates blowing up Three Gorges Dam for the fun of killing a bunch of Chinese ... There is no difference between the single Chinese man or the Chinese nation that wishes to do harm. Chinese want to play unlimited warfare

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You are wrong about that, many here hate and hate all Chinese and call for them all be killed, making no distinction between the Chinese people and the CCP. The Chinese people and the Chinese nation: the “Chinese nation” as you put it, consists or two bodies - the Chinese people and the CCP. They are not the same. To not distinguish, is to tar them all with the same brush which is a form of racism; like saying all blacks are xxxx, and there is no difference between a black that xxxx and one that does not.

What in the heck is this obsession with “the race card”? Take it and go elsewhere, please.

MAD does not work with the CCP. They are not interested in signing any treaty, limitation, unless it betters their internal image. And as long as they have the bragging rights internally, what they do externally is irrelevant.

No one said anything about unlimited warfare. Unlike covid, a genetic bio-weapon, to be effective, has to work quickly enough that no response is possible. Look at our devastating response to the Chinese release of covid ... wait, there is none. And so it would go.