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Date Posted: 06:24:14 02/04/10 Thu
Author: jeffman
Subject: Re: China heats up
In reply to: Paul Davis 's message, "China heats up" on 11:11:22 02/03/10 Wed

I am curious to see how this plays out. China is coming into its own.. much like the US did at one point. I expect that they will have much more of a say in international events than they ever did.

>China believes they've got the world by the tail, and
>they are out to prove it. They've essentially ordered
>Boeing and the other companies involved in the arms
>sale to Taiwan to not do it, else China will hit them
>with sanctions.
>
>Approval of the US govt means nothing, nor does the
>concessions made (no F-16's for one thing) nor
>anything else, follow our orders regarding a third
>party or face the consequences! Wars have started
>over quite a bit less.
>
>The Chinese have also started building ports for their
>Navy ships to fuel at and pull into for repairs, two
>of them are in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. With the
>collapse of the Tamil Tigers, the US lost all
>influence in that region and China reaped all the
>benefits, as China was active in supporting the
>government that wiped out the Tigers.
>
>China has also claimed all the islands in the South
>China Sea, thereby getting protests from Vietnam,
>Malaysia, etc.
>
>Chinese protests have caused Obama to put off meeting
>with the Dali Lama last year, and are having a fit
>about his planned meeting in April. Since the China
>based Internet attacks on US companies and the govt,
>plus the above, he's just not trying to keep them
>happy any more. The game of brinksmanship is ON!
>
>And one of the most popular books in China last year,
>perhaps the most popular, was "Unhappy China", a very
>nationalistic book that blames all China's problems on
>the greedy overbearing West.
>
> >href="http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi-bin/D.PL?
>s=8MdVHl&xct=gd.e090412#e090412">http://www.generationa
>ldynamics.com/cgi-bin/D.PL?s=8MdVHl&xct=gd.e090412#e090
>412
>
>I really doubt China is going to be selling us cheap
>tshirts in ten years. More likely we'll be at war.
>These are precisely the sorts of things that preceded
>WWII.

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