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To: rbmillerjr

All of the above is true, yet still ignores the other half of the picture. Yes, China did all of that against us, yet China also invaded Vietnam in the 1970's, broke with the USSR (and had several border wars with them), opened their doors to Nixon, and have expanded their capitalistic market approach and business arrangements with the U.S. and other allied nations.

Moreover, China is currently at war with radical Islamists in their Xinjiang province.

So by selectively choosing from either your above list of facts or from those that I mention above, and leaving out the other half, one could make *either* case that China was inevitably going to side either with or against the U.S.

But such selective statements do us no good. China *could* side against us. That's a very real possibility. China could also side with us. We share a common foe and we have large business ties with each other.

Right now, however, it is too early to tell which way China will break. They could go either way. Neither of their above options for or against us are set in stone.

Yet.

...And the smart money says that China will delay having to pick a side for as long as possible.

60 posted on 01/21/2005 4:27:24 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

I have showed a list of events clearly aimed against the US.

I don't see any events you listed as being clearly aligning with the US.

Your list: of items is very disntinct from aligning with the US...
1)China invading Vietnam had nothing to do with the US...this is a long running border dispute.
2)breaking with USSR...again an intense rivalry and hatred that had nothing to do with aligning with US.
3)Open doors to Nixon...poppycock,,,this was payback for the US selling out Taiwan as a sovereign nation and recognizing China in the UN.
4)business with US and West...this is not done to align with the US or West but take advantage of it...their writing expressly prove this out and their WTO tactics and flaunting of WTO rules is very telling.
5)You failed to mention the most recent military arangements with Russia that Krauthammer depicts.

Please name me one policy showing the Chinese aligning or even leaning toward being a responsible international state.


61 posted on 01/21/2005 4:38:25 PM PST by rbmillerjr
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