Posted on 07/10/2002 9:27:58 AM PDT by Jeff Head
While it is true they have found a golden cow (us) ... the desire to make it their own by building their own markets in the region and addressing them themselves, as well as other markets we will ultimately have mutual interest in.
It's a matter of timing ... at some point the two interests will collide and I believe they are planning for it now. I posit that in the fictional series and then write a story around it.
China is not our friend ... they are biding their time while many here seek after a "golden cow" of our own ... which the vast majority of those people over there will never see as their leaders keep them down. will never. We kid ourselves into thinking that if we just through enough money, technology and diplomacy at them that the people will make it for themselves.
I wish that were true. But historically we are much more apt to just bankrupt ourselves while feeding the very powers that want to evict us from the area ultimately when they fell strong enough. Reagan provided the best exampl of how to ":engage" such an advesary/competitio. I believe it is what we should do with China now.
They ultimately intend to not only bite the hand IMHO, they will try and dismember it in their own interests when the time is right for them.
Just my opinion.
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China will attack America pre-emptively because China knows that eventually America will become sick of being China's golden cow and take revenge economically or militarily? So China will attack America before America can attack China? This is a convoluted scenario. As for China's getting rich off America, you have to realize American consumers benefit from the relationship too by being able to buy affordable goods so that Americans can continue to enjoy their world's highest standard of living. In addition, China never forces any American to shop at Wal-Mart, but they shop there of their own free will. Third, the reason US firms set up factories in China in the first place is because American consumers are bargain-hunters by habit and always seek the lowest prices. It's not China's fault that Americans are bargain-hunters by habit. Having China around to provide low-cost goods to Americans for decades to come in the future is the best "tax cut" for US consumers possible. Every dollar you save by shopping at Wal-Mart is a dollar you can use elsewhere such as your kids' college fund. So America and China have a mutually beneficial and hardly competitive but complementary economic relationship. Americans should be thankful they have China around to provide cheap goods long into the future. This relationship is almost set in stone now, so I disagree with you that warfare is somehow inevitable. Even during the EP-3 incident, Bush Jr. took punishing China via trade off the table as an option because cutting off trade with China would just end up hurting America itself. Among other things, Wal-Mart is America's biggest employer now.
The ones benefitting in China are the principally the same ones who benefitted as Maoist policies raped the land and the culture ... they've just found a new way to fund it now that doesn't bankrupt them. And it is because so many here have bought into the "service" economy and having everything produced somewhere else where it is cheap.
If this were the millinium, I'd buy it and go for it. But its not and until then, a service economy is ultimately an economy of servants.
IMHO, we need to change and take up policies that are more atune to keeping us on top of the production world. That's what made our standard of living my friend ... not letting someone else do everything for us. Ultimately that path will just sap us of our wealth and standard.
But again, think what you will, they are just my opinions and I am writing a fictional set of novels about it ... leaning more to the military side of the tale.
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