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[Image Source: Asia Society]




China aircraft carrier




Sources: DOD [1], [2; PDF]

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By retrospooty on 5/7/2013 12:01:24 PM , Rating: 0
Meh... Nothing to worry about anyhow. China and the USA are too financially linked to ever get into an actual conflict. Their whole economy is dependent on ours, and ours is dependent on them... It's a financial partnership that would destroy both if it were to be broken. Sort of the monetary equivalent of nuclear war. If we cut them off or or they cut us off, both would fall into a massive depression and it would bring the rest of the world down with it. Simply not gonna happen...

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France was Germany's major economic partner and they still got invaded.

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By TheEinstein on 5/7/13, Rating: 0
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China would easily invade us if they thought they could

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China would easily invade us if they thought they could

Nah wouldn't happen.


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Meanwhile, in just 10 short years:
- food stamps have risen from 26 million to 46 million people


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By Ammohunt on 5/7/2013 1:19:00 PM , Rating: 2
...both would fall into a massive depression and it would bring the rest of the world down

Have you looked around you? that's going on now! optimists can spin the truth about the economy anyway they want.

No chance of war with China is more along the lines of there is nothing in it for the US other than meeting our obligations to protect Japan,Taiwan and other allies in the region against any Chi-Com aggression. If China thinks they can police the world like the US does i say go for it but be warned Chinese culture is not remotely like American culture when it comes to helping other nations.

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By retrospooty on 5/7/13, Rating: 0
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Thanks, i didn't have the energy today.

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By retrospooty on 5/7/13, Rating: 0
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"The Fed can't keep doing this indefinitely"


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By dgingerich on 5/7/2013 2:23:22 PM , Rating: 2

It's not quite that bad. Our manufacturing systems could be spooled up by enterprising businessmen in fairly short order, perhaps 18-24 months, to the point we could make up for the shortfall from China's manufacturing. Even if we lost the entire SE Asia area (where we get most of our clothes) we could be fully back up and running in no more than 3 years. We have many hard working people in this country that are currently working in retail and fast food, places where our teenagers should be working. We just need the motivation to use their talents. It will cost more, sure, but it could be done.

On the other side, their financial and tech sectors could do without us in about the same time frame. They have many very intelligent people. They just need the motivation to use them for their talents. It will take a bit longer to get enough of their people motivated to do such things to extend long term growth in both tech and financial systems. Let's face it, socialist systems don't reward hard work very well. However, they'd be able to limp along easily enough.

It would definitely hurt both countries if we do lose those economic links, and hurt us both a LOT more if we went to war, but it wouldn't end either country.

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By zhivaji on 5/7/2013 6:05:17 PM , Rating: 2
Yeah.. its not problem for America.. Just wait until China takes over Asian countries or declare Japan as its colony .. :) Then things would hit the fan..

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By retrospooty on 5/7/2013 6:15:47 PM , Rating: 2
"Just wait until China takes over Asian countries or declare Japan as its colony"

Agreed... Lets just wait for that before we get all bent about it. I suspect we will be waiting a long long time ;)

