[rightsmart]

You hit the nail on the head. Too many in the U.S. (and this thread) see China as no match to us militarily. I believe that their economic moves are entirely based on gaining economic leverage on us so that they never need to oppose us militarily.
My hope is that the plan may backfire--the more successful they are economically, the more likely the people of China will demand more social, economic, and political freedom

[SoothingDave]

You hit the nail on the head. Too many in the U.S. (and this thread) see China as no match to us militarily. I believe that their economic moves are entirely based on gaining economic leverage on us so that they never need to oppose us militarily. My hope is that the plan may backfire--the more successful they are economically, the more likely the people of China will demand more social, economic, and political freedom

Truth be told, that is the US strategy. We're not going to engage China in a conventional war of any kind.

They no more want to lose their biggest market than we can afford to lose the production we rely on from there.

SD

[Paul_Denton]

You hit the nail on the head. Too many in the U.S. (and this thread) see China as no match to us militarily. I believe that their economic moves are entirely based on gaining economic leverage on us so that they never need to oppose us militarily.

They are no match militarily for us right now. But the ChiComs and their buddies the free traitors, western europeans, russians, leftists are trying to fix that by giving them the money and technology.