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China closer to matching modern militaries

Do you have any proof whatsoever? Because all the evidence points to the deregulation of companies, allowing them to empower China.
Your man Clinton allowed secrets to escape into their hands.
 
The European weenies couldn't take Libya without us.
 
I'll leave this country if the future leaders are going to let get to that. I am going to die like that... I am not that patriotic, **** it.
Yippppeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
 
We well eventually fight a war with China. Once they think they can get around or defeat our technology, they will.

Bank on it

not necessary. they can simply purchase us, and are doing so right now.
 
Considering their history of innovation and advancement I'm continually amazed that right now in this century they're os far behind and broken as a nation.

Thousands of years - steeped in genius and ability - and they still can't figure things out. . . It's rather embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for the Chinese people.
 

Thats a great mistake people (like you) make....

China may be is old, but the People's Republic of China is not. At the beginning of the 20th Century, China was a backward nation that couldn't control its borders or its economy and was subject to the whims of the "Great Powers". Japan, a nation with a far smaller population, was able to conquer large parts of China and probably could have completed the job if not for US intervention.

The People's Republic of China took over in 1949 and commenced a total rebuilding of the country. Something that has gone through a couple of evolutions along the way.

People's Republic of China is rather young if you compare it with, the US
 

You might want to bring that assessment up to date.

As Mark Steyn points out:


And New York City has a gaping hole in the ground while the mayor frets about its citizens salt intake.
 
So because they are reshaping their government they can't somehow learn from their past? what did they do - burn all bridges and start fresh? I'm not talking about the basics of government and some educational standards. I'm talking about a regional history that spans numerous centuries - how many dynasties is that? How many changes did they undergo? Surely they're stronger than that.

In the US: we don't just go back to 1787 when we consider "what to do next - how to improve" - all the time we look to 1750, 1700's - 1500's even . . the beginning. And even before Europeans came here - we look to our native past as well for inspiration for hte future.

Just because a new chapter was written doesn't mean the previous chapters are meaningless.
 
That is totally wrong.
 
I think it's hilarious and simultaneously frightening that there are people so paranoid as to think that the Chinese really are basically supervillains waiting for the first possible opportunity to destroy us no matter how illogical or suicidal the attempt would be. These people must still think the Soviet Union is lying in wait to get us too.
 

tosses you a foil hat.

Git wid it or git ded
 

They are so inscrutable.
 
It seems you all are overlooking the moonwalking bear. Basically it seems people here are caught between two equally misguided prospects for China:

1. That as a totalitarian dictatorship China has morals vastly different from our own and also possesses a greed for power that can only be satiated through future war with the United States to usurp its position of dominance in the world.

2. That as a totalitarian dictatorship China cannot engage in military adventurism for long without the government collapsing under the weight of popular outrage over the government's manner of rule or being forced to copy the Western political system to avoid popular outrage.

What both misguided ideas have in common is they rest as a matter of necessity on China being a totalitarian dictatorship. Since you are all so focused on this view of China you are missing the more obvious path things are likely to take. If you consider that China is, in fact, not a totalitarian dictatorship instead having political principles rooted in democratic thought it is easier to foresee that China will become a superpower without the need for any radical upheaval and without going to war with the United States. That does not mean there will not be changes, but they will not be the kind of changes envisioned by any of you.
 
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