China has deployed missiles giving it second-strike capability against U.S.

[Buck Armstrong]

Originally posted by: ayabe
Not to mention that the Chinese government is secular and that alone gives them one leg up on us, since they aren't hamstrung by absurd myths from yesteryear.

They aren't?! Are we talking about the same China?

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: feelingshorter

Such an old argument!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the study of economics. There are sites out there dedicated to these "USA vs. China" economy crap. We are on the winning side. China will be a super power regardless if we buy stuff from them or not. Long point short, we spend about 2% of our GDP to get the life style that we get. Lets say all our products were 2x as expensive, then what? Our economy will also be weaker and our military will follow since basic supplies in Walmart will cost more.

China needed something to rally it's people to stop Westerners from f*cking with them. Lets go back to the first time white people stepped foot in China and in the rest of Asia. What happened? Wars? Deaths? For those who dont know history, the British went to war with China so they can continue selling opium to the addicted population. I believe it was a huge % of the population being addicted to opium. China, kinda like the Viets, used communism to rally the people and get the foreigners out. Neither China nor Vietnam were pawns of Russia. As education becomes more widely spread, i highly doubt China will be a new USSR. They are trying to protect their interest in a cut throat world. This could turn into a long debate about China & Western nations but the History Channel has done a really good job at it. Tells all the wrong that westerners did to China.

Welcome to the real world where you can?t be level 99 and everyone else will be weaker than you at level 50 so you can do what ever you want. Learn the history of China and the economics of it. Also learn about how China's growth rate in proportion to their standard of living is much higher (which is a bad thing for them, good for us).

:thumbsup: some of the fearmongering regarding China is ridiculous. It's not the 1960's anymore. China is changing rapidly, and it has never been the source of much aggression. If anything, somebody needs to keep the US in check.

 

[wazzledoozle]

I think in this 21'st century, it will be up to China to confront/stop radical Islam, something western nations do not seem to have the balls to do correctly. China may be communist, and people seem to think that is bad. Maybe for the majority that is in poverty, but the government has only the best interests for the entire country strategically in mind, so they wont take ******.

 

[GeNome]

I wouldn't be too worried about China nuking the U.S. Right now, they're still pretty dependent on us buying almost everything from them. And even when they don't need us anymore, what would they get out of nuking us? A nuclear war is the last thing they would want.

 

[Jeff7]

So everyone has nukes, and everyone has the ability to kill everyone else. Why the hell do we need all this? It's like going up to your neighbor, and you both put a gun to each other's head. Why'd you go over there to provoke him in the first place? Now there exists the potential that you both may die, while previously, there was no threat, no imminent danger. Do we want to fight each other just out of boredom?