They're a competitor.
They don't want to take over Taiwan.
Want into one hand.
Excrete fecal material into the other.
Pray tell me which one fills first.
Their rapid military build up is just for defensive purposes.
"Rapid" military build-up?
Are you one of those folks who said that Reagan's military buildup was an example of US warmongering? THAT little exercise was much faster AND much more broadly based than what the Chinese are doing. The actual number of Chinese under arms has actually declined.
Their tenacious pirating of our technology is only because they want to be just like us.
Their tenacious pirating of our technology points out their Achilles' heel: they can't do any large-scale R&D of their own.
Silly man... don't you know "We're all doomed!"?
Nope. I was and am one of those who believe that our military can never be big enough.
Their tenacious pirating of our technology points out their Achilles' heel: they can't do any large-scale R&D of their own.
Oh yeah sure. Just like how Japan's copying of our technology got them into many of our now past industries, which they have advanced tremendously. Are you one of those that think Japan is a forever washed up industrial giant? LOL.
Let me tell you something that even an 8th grader would intuitively know, when a country cedes industry after industry to their overseas "competitors" without anything but trade deficits in return that country will most certainly reach a point where it loses the critical mass and technical know how to invent new industries. Common sense is obviously lost on you.