He did not say that. He said that Russia is more concerning. China depends on trade to keep their people happy. Putin depends on propaganda instead. We have far more influence over China's behavior than a country that does not care if it's people starve. China doe not have the ability to be that way.
The US - and many a conflict with China will trigger Japanese, Kiwi, Aussie, Filipino and sometimes Vietnamese involvement - would obliterate Beijing's force projection capabilities in short order, too.
I agree. I didn't say that, the panel did.
But, I do agree that if China begins to supply Russia with armaments that things will escalate. And it may well suck our European allies into sanctions on China, worsening their relationships.
From China's standpoint, I can see why they think this is unfair. After all, we are giving Ukraine weapons and selling weapons to Taiwan.
India is a fully signed up Strategic Partner with the United States.
In 2020 the Taiwan legislature dissolved the country's claim over the mainland China. The government issued a new passport that says TAIWAN in large letters instead.
I thought I answered this pretty clearly by saying "no". What you haven't expounded on is whether you think China is far more concerned about potential economic actions against it, which are far more of a threat right now than nuclear war.
There's no question China's been building its sphere of influence over the past 30 years or so, through both its investments and use of soft power to expand its culture abroad. They offered to fill a void left by the US or in direct competition to US options in terms of developing local economies. What any of that has not resulted in is coup d'etats in the same way US involvement in the developing world has led to. Don't get me wrong, I am no fan of China's government or any of its internal actions, but their expansion in this area is still fairly young compared to how long the US has been doing this. We're already seeing pushback in Africa and Latin America to Chinese investment out of the very same concerns they have for US involvement.
Russia's MIC is not so good any more since the USSR failed -- money is hard to come by. Putin for instance could not mass produce the high tech T-14 Armada Main Battle Tank because of the huge expense. The Russia MIC sells tons of weapons but they're mostly small arms such as the Kalashnikov AK-47, plus some artillery and fighter jets and so on. India though told Putin he could keep his hyped up Su-57 flying junk that they argued over endlessly.
That would cause inflation.
I know what you believe and I know you are wrong -- dead wrong. Because neither is the United States nor the West going to surrender to the CCP DictatorTyrants in Beijing. Not for any reason. And economic rule means political and cultural rule for certain. Western corporations do not want the Chinese Communist Party controlling them and the global economy -- the thought is anathema to Western corporations. Western corporations will press any button they need to press to stop this.
Getting back to the OP, in a cold war there are no invasions or sea battles. Proxy wars, economic measures, electronic warfare, and covert operations - yes. Except for proxy wars those things are taking place now. And if the Chinese begin supplying Russia with weapons as we are supplying Ukraine - then we have a proxy war.
I was commenting on "war with China", not cold war, though. And as far as having things now, they are far milder versions than we'd have in a war, or even had in the cold war. For example, (covert) Operation Mongoose in Cuba was massive with assassinations, bombings, sabotage and more. That's not what we're doing in China.
You have posted 8 times on this thread and received one response. Most of your post have snarky comments about the other posters. You obviously feel strongly about this subject and are knowledgeable. If you want discussion, however, I suggest you tone it down a bit. Jus' saying.
Dude, that is ancient history and China is a very different country than under Mao. You don't see that? The Govt. abandoned their zero tolerance policy for covid because of pressure from the people. They will have a rebellion on their hands if everyone is put out of work by trade sanctions. We can find other options for goods, there are other asian countries that are stepping up their exports and competing with China.
No we would not. Dependence on trade is a very good way to gain power on a adversary. That fact that makes China far more vulnerable to sanctions. Xi would love to sell Russia lethal armaments but he will not risk sanctions to do it.Not to the Chinese it isn’t.
Gee, if it were that easy we’d have cut ties with China years ago
