The Real China Threat

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  • Posted By: Wenjun.Jing @ 08/20/2008 10:29:19 PM

    Obviously it is Old USA man enduring the experience of Cold War. If jumping out of both USA and China and reviewing the history of human being, No for-ever rule rules for everyone. Human Being, society and World is always moving forward and can NOT stop somewhere. If the target in topic is NOT China but like GBR, France or others, you, as a spokerman standing for USA, will must have the similar sense.

    The thing you talked about is not related to country actually, but people, man. Just releas which country you are and being as a man, review and feel what you think, what you worry, what you fear?

    ridiculous, is it related to China. It is your fear.

  • Posted By: Wenjun.Jing @ 08/20/2008 10:28:30 PM

    Obviously it is Old USA man enduring the experience of Cold War. If jumping out of both USA and China and reviewing the history of human being, No for-ever rule rules for everyone. Human Being, society and World is always moving forward and can NOT stop somewhere. If the target in topic is NOT China but like GBR, France or others, you, as a spokerman standing for USA, will must have the similar sense.

    The thing you talked about is not related to country actually, but people, man. Just releas which country you are and being as a man, review and feel what you think, what you worry, what you fear?

    ridiculous, is it related to China. It is your fear.

  • Posted By: Aditya Mookerjee @ 08/20/2008 10:05:20 PM

    The reason why The USA is prosperous, is because it has a modestly numbered population, perhaps. The USA, too, could have supported a billion people, as citizens, but there are no pressures of existence on farmlands, national parks,and the people lead relatively easy lives. I believe, that in a nation which has so many poor still, like in China, the Chinese currency cannot but be undervalued to the US Dollar. The US business community may teach the world how to do business, but ultimately it follows a business policy, in which all the business community compete with each other, to do better than each other. Are not the other nations doing the same, in their business dealings with other nations? America must be a manufacturing nation in the future, I mean a regular manufacturing nation. I have heard that manufacturing of goods for everyday use is sourced from other nations, and that Grumman, General Dynamics, and other defense corporations, are the manufacturing entities, who are strongly associated with manufacturing in The USA. This may be a mistake of my perception.

  • Posted By: rpharkness @ 08/20/2008 5:51:32 PM

    We have a symbiotic relationship with the Chinese. They subsidize our consumer lifestyle by selling us cheap junk at least cheaper than it would be if the value of their currency floated. They also buy our government bonds subsidizing our deficit spending. We export our technology and jobs to them while filling their treasury to overflowing.

    Now the Chinese are buying up oil, resources, and our companies, and we are whining about it. This is the result of a number of administrations who were/are so enamored with free trade that they didn???t want to dirty their hands negotiating a level playing field. This is the giant sucking noise similar to the one Ross Perot was talking about.

    The only war that is going to be fought over this is an economic one; a war we???ll loose as long as the administration is afraid to negotiate toe to toe with the Chinese.

  • Posted By: accrew4 @ 08/20/2008 2:08:55 PM

    What would be the USA do if a diesel powered nuclear missle sub sat off the USA coast? This close to our shores would make it almost imposible to detect or give us the ability to prevent the missle form hitting its target.

    China has the largest number or diesel powered subs in the world. A diesel/battery powered sub is harder to detect and makes less noise underwater than our best nuclear sub. Also the public and Green Peace has blocked the construction of underwater detection systems to detect these types of subs.

    • Posted By: cajademierda @ 08/20/2008 4:29:17 PM

      Huh? I thought the whole point of nuclear powered subs was that they were less detectable than diesel. A diesel powered sub gives off exhaust, which is very detectable. You could compress and store the exhaust, but that uses up a lot of the power you're generating. And I don't see how diesel would be any quieter than nuclear either.

      And as far as what we'd do if a Chinese nuclear missile sub was off the coast? The same thing we'd do if a Russian sub was off the coast. Nothing. It's called a strategic defense system. They won't hit us because they know we'll retaliate and retaliate hard. Think mutually assured destruction. Besides, the range on those missiles is enough that being close to our shores is unnecessary and possibly a hinderance.

  • Posted By: cooles @ 08/20/2008 3:04:34 PM

    The mentality of the west- them vs us- will one day bring us all to an unscheduled end. Power play maybe deeply engrained in the American or westerners' psyche, but I sure have not come across any other race that are so pre-occupied with this line of thnking. Is that the reason why the western world is in constant flux and conflicts/wars with other countries? The paranoia of the western world is more damaging & scarier to the survival of the mother-earth than anything else on earth. If ever armageddon does come true, we know who to point the finger to. Two world wars, then to cold war, now taking on Russia. Jeez, you in the west should have your heads seen to before you blow us all up!

    • Posted By: PresidentSupporter @ 08/20/2008 4:23:08 PM

      Yes, you're right. The entire world, other than the west, are peace-loving, gracious and perfect people. Only the west is evil. Brilliant comments.

  • Posted By: hc76051 @ 08/20/2008 2:01:03 PM

    Egghead writers like this one really are useless. Instead of propagating all this doom and gloom, why not offer some suggestions on how to ward off all the trouble he foresees?

  • Posted By: accrew4 @ 08/20/2008 1:53:55 PM

    IMO China is doing the same thing with natural resources as the USA has done with crude oil. Use the world supplies first then develop the remaining supplies in their own counrty. Their high profile projects all seem to be low polluting and long life. The worlds largest hydroelectric dam and now building numerious nuclear power generators, are examples. China has both a long term energy and natural resource policy that will take them into the next century,

    Not bad for a country that 40 years ago was mainly bicycles and rice patties. Western people can say how bad the communist government is, but it has brought China into the 21st century. The people of China identify with their 5000 year old culture not their present governing body. IMO in 50 years when they have complete their modernization policies and repair their ecological damage. China will be the leading power of the world.

  • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 08/20/2008 1:36:12 PM

    iF WE ARE SUPPOSED TO FEAR IT'S MILITARY MAYBE WE SHOULD RECONCIDER OUR ALLOWENCE OF THE ISREAILIES SELLING CHINA WEAPONS AGAINST THE ARMS BANN, THEY ARE NOW,TODAY BUYING FAR BETTER WEAPONS THAN WE USE! FEAR IS OUR OWN DESIGN, NOT THERES!

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