Are you a chinese poster, agent00f? Yes or No?
Amusing you deny racism yet ethnicity is evidently important to you.
So no answer and by your style of debate or rather the lack of it. I know what you are. Go earn your 50 cents. I am done with you here in this thread. I will come back with more links about how other countries in the neighborhood are getting ready for the chinese invaders. Oh no, they must be hating the chinese, right? LOL.
Why are we provoking them? Is it worth the casualties to defend some rocks for other countries?
Obviously, we were so successful when we helped out Kuwait from Iraq. Totally worth the 50k casualties, $2 trillion cost, and pissing off the entire Middle East.
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Okay tough guy. Same argument was made in the Korean War, the Vietnam war, and the Iraq wars. All made by geniuses like yourself. please be the first to enlist, otherwise leave my ass out of it.
The chances of the US weasling out of treaties to protect another country? 100%
Even the Japanese don't believe the treaties. That's why they want to amend their constitution and expand their military.
Also the right move for the US, no way do I agree that my tax dollars be used to fight wars for other countries. Now if only we could bring all of our troops back, and stop giving so much "aid" to Israel...
Oh really? What did the US do when Putin invaded Georgia/Crimea/east Ukraine?
Nothing. That's what. Because both Bush and Obama knew that we only mess with countries without nuclear missiles. I thought Bill Clinton promised Ukraine we'd have their back, to get them to dismantle their nukes? When the shit hit the fan for Ukraine, they found out that "agreements" are bullshit and no way in hell will we start a war with Russia. Not over Ukraine, nor any of our other allies.
Same shit will play out for our Asian "allies" and their disputes with China.
Holy crap this is funny .. nickqt vs. Svnla vs. agent00f .. and then 2 guys and 1 gal trying to discuss something inbetween just drowning in the sewer storm. Must hang out more in P&N .
On China and production. Over the last couple of years I've come to the conclusion that the consumer/producer relationship will come to a halt come "the second industrial revolution".. with robotics and 3D printing, much as described in this article i just googled..
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...nting-the-technology-that-changes-everything/
What is your thoughts on that? Wishful thinking?
I do not remember that the US has any formal treaty to defend Ukraine as it has with Japan. Feel free to prove me wrong.
You could be right that the US will do nothing to defend Japan if commie china attacks it. Only time will tell. Stay tuned.
Funny. Several posters in this site accused me as an old white hairy white guy living in a broken trailer with a huge Confederate flag in the background and my wife is also my sister. What is truth and what is fiction? WWJD?
Yes yes, some of us now understand that your "southie" status refers to south vietnamese...so you're basically a china/commie-hating vietnamese that confuses his unbridled racism with logical thought.
Hey I kind of get it--I'd hate the chinese too if they invaded, murdered my family and countrymen, and still attempt to wash away that history. I'm actually more or less with you on that.
But it still doesn't excuse your pedestrian and ignorant attempts at having a real discussion. Your mind is closed to external thought. Talking with you is like pounding sand, because your hate and racism has replaced any potential for education and frank discussion.
Holy crap this is funny .. nickqt vs. Svnla vs. agent00f .. and then 2 guys and 1 gal trying to discuss something inbetween just drowning in the sewer storm. Must hang out more in P&N .
On China and production. Over the last couple of years I've come to the conclusion that the consumer/producer relationship will come to a halt come "the second industrial revolution".. with robotics and 3D printing, much as described in this article i just googled..
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...nting-the-technology-that-changes-everything/
What is your thoughts on that? Wishful thinking?
Yes yes, some of us now understand that your "southie" status refers to south vietnamese...so you're basically a china/commie-hating vietnamese that confuses his unbridled racism with logical thought.
Hey I kind of get it--I'd hate the chinese too if they invaded, murdered my family and countrymen, and still attempt to wash away that history. I'm actually more or less with you on that.
But it still doesn't excuse your pedestrian and ignorant attempts at having a real discussion. Your mind is closed to external thought. Talking with you is like pounding sand, because your hate and racism has replaced any potential for education and frank discussion.
The "ghost cities" are generally a misnomer by people uninformed about the facts on the ground. They're part of a "build it and they will come" type policy, and the vast majority of such structures are inhabited if not crowded pretty soon after.
Both a Trump and a Clinton presidency would probably lead to increased tensions with China, but by very different routes. Hillary Clinton is regarded in Beijing as a dangerous hawk who would be likely to be more determined in pushing back against China’s maritime claims. President Xi is a tough-minded nationalist, so a Clinton presidency would increase the chances of a clash in the Pacific between the US and China.
Trump, by contrast, seems relatively uninterested in America’s strategic role in the Pacific, but his vociferous protectionism has led him to propose swingeing tariffs on Chinese goods. Any such policy would be regarded as an act of economic warfare by Beijing.
Either way, the era when globalisation seemed like a process that could create only common interests between China and the west is over. It is now giving way to an epoch that looks altogether darker and more dangerous.
Mods, you've got three people trolling Snvla and failing at it, hard. Is there some point where you restore order in a thread or do you like seeing these 3 post the lulz? (I confess, I get entertainment from Nickie, so I can understand if you like seeing Svnla slap them around)
It's certainly amusing to see their attacks bouncing off him while he valiantly sticks to his subject. Notice how all the attacks are basically the same - belittling his points about wiki, his intelligence, showing off their possibly student-loan-funded liberal arts chops, lamenting his lack of application of precious Liberal College Peer Approved groupthink all the while brushing away the original point of China's expansionist plans.
The irony is even more keen when you consider the same gang rise in vicious outrage if as much as an Israeli stone falls past UN defined borders.
But hey, China taking stuff from its neighbors and flexing muscles? A-OK
lol there is not going to be any catastrophic conflict with China. Nobody is going to war.
First of all, China literally cannot go to war against any seasoned force, such as the US or Japan's. For now, China's aggressive capabilities top out at bullying third-world nations. They do not have the capability to go to war with -- and win against -- any first-world nation with a decent army.
Second, nuclear arms are going to prevent all war.
This will end in chafing, many feelings hurt, and cries for the west to stop meddling in their internal affairs. All of it so far is posturing, and China is getting really upset that the west are getting involved because it means they can't bully their way to resources.
All the theories of escalation and hyperbole like "catastrophic" aren't really realistic. Whether or not the US *should* get involved is another matter, yes.
Mods, you've got three people trolling Snvla and failing at it, hard. Is there some point where you restore order in a thread or do you like seeing these 3 post the lulz? (I confess, I get entertainment from Nickie, so I can understand if you like seeing Svnla slap them around)
It's certainly amusing to see their attacks bouncing off him while he valiantly sticks to his subject. Notice how all the attacks are basically the same - belittling his points about wiki, his intelligence, showing off their possibly student-loan-funded liberal arts chops, lamenting his lack of application of precious Liberal College Peer Approved groupthink all the while brushing away the original point of China's expansionist plans.
The irony is even more keen when you consider the same gang rise in vicious outrage if as much as an Israeli stone falls past UN defined borders.
But hey, China taking stuff from its neighbors and flexing muscles? A-OK
You simply don't understand a soft power strategy. Building out a military on par with the US is incredibly expensive, and arguably what tipped over the Soviets. It's also completely unnecessary to competing for influence in most of the world. That's why you see the chinese out building infrastructure in the third world in exchange for access, for much less rmb with visibly better results.
My reply was to the person who said that US intervention would lead to a "catastrophic conflict". There will be no wars, and not just because of nukes, but because China can't, nor will they be able to for the foreseeable future. That's a major misunderstanding of a lot of people; that China is a superpower in the traditional sense.
I'm actually surprised you liberals are perfectly OK with China's expansionist plans, their takeover of Tibet, etc. I thought you guys were against these sort of imperialist ambitions? Is it OK because America / Europe did it at one time so let China have its fun too?