Now I know there are people who still think of China as some picturesque backwater where people in funny hats pull rickshaws full of tourists through rice paddies filled with mosquitoes carrying malaria and yellow fever. Of course it is worth ignoring.
It seem that it falls upon me to inform you that China is now the preeminent communist power with a first world economy and a manufacturing capacity that rivals any on the planet. North Korea was China's proxy in the fifties, and it still is today. When China wants to rattle things up they pull the strings and North Korea complies.
Now, you just attempted to reply to a post referencing the threat North Korea and China pose to South Korea as if China does not exist.
Your self evaluation I referenced in my first sentence is dead on, and the tone I have taken with your foolish nonsense is fully earned.
“Your self evaluation I referenced in my first sentence is dead on, and the tone I have taken with your foolish nonsense is fully earned.”
Why be such an ass? Just answer politely.
SeekAndFind is genuinely interested.
RE: It seem that it falls upon me to inform you that China is now the preeminent communist power with a first world economy and a manufacturing capacity that rivals any on the planet. North Korea was China’s proxy in the fifties, and it still is today. When China wants to rattle things up they pull the strings and North Korea complies.
Well, the way I see it, Japan and South Korea BOTH have world class economies and manufacturing capacities that rivals China and even the USA.
Japan has a GDP of 5 Trillion Dollars. South Korea has a GDP of 2 Trillion Dollars. They are richer PER CAPITA than China.
Why can’t they use their own financial and technological prowess to defend themselves? WHY DO WE HAVE TO BE THERE?
If they need arms from us, we can sell them, but do we have to BE THERE physically?
Thanks for educating me,
Mr. Ignoramus