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- TheBlueOne0
re: China
Look, I can see a case for China's government using anti-western rhetoric at home to fuel some kind of military action to bleed off social unrest at home...but and this is a huge but..if China is in a position to have to do that you can bet dollars to doughnuts that their will be far more than enough domestic unrest within china
Furthermore this flies in the face of China's history. China ONLY became a unified nation (within current geographic borders) in the 20th century, and within that process went through two huge internal wars and two periods of massive social unrest to get there. Historically China has always been a place of distinct regional warring areas, most specifically the trading/mercantile coastal regions cs. the agricultural interiors. These are age old fissures that have erupted again and again over the milenia. The only thing holding it together now was the promise of neo-fuedal capitalist prosperity the Communist party was promising the country and an east german like state police. These things do not hold up well in dire economic conditions. I would see an internal strife-torn China before I'd see a foreign international military adventure on china's part.
Although, I would expect to see a more muscular display of china's navy against the US and Japan in the coastal regions of China and Taiwan, and certainly wouldn't rule out a proxy resource war in Africa...
- Besides, all China has to do to fuck us up is dump their treasuries on the market and down goes the dollar..TheBlueOne
- ..why waste the bullets...TheBlueOne
- Well said. China is suffering immensely. The great "untold" news story— China is sinking fast on many fronts. They blame the USA.********
- blame the USA. Also, if there ever is a proxy war in Africa, or anywhere else for that matter, the US would likely engage.********