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China aircraft carrier




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

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RE: Prowless??
By dgingerich on 5/7/2013 2:23:22 PM , Rating: 2
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.

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.

