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Why the hysteria? China has never been an aggressor with regard to territorial or ideological expansion. If treated in a non-hostile manner I suspect we have little to fear from them and may even benfit from closer contact as trading partners.

"China has never been an aggressor with regard to territorial or ideological expansion."

Tell that to the thousands of dead UN and US soldiers and marines that died in North and South Korea. No Chinese territory was violated yet they treacherously attacked UN and US forces defending South Korea.

You may want to also take that up with Taiwan, while they are threatend and blackmailed with growing hundreds of Ballistic Missiles 100 miles across the Strait.

Ideological? Are you kidding they force there own people to believe in the Party ideology and their manifestos and Maoisms state very clearly that world wide aims and goals.

"If treated in a non-hostile manner I suspect we have little to fear from them and may even benfit from closer contact as trading partners.

Yes, we can hope that they will come into the fold of nations and act responsibly, but their actions and threats against many do not give us great hope. I do believe we should trade with them and hope that their economic freedom eventually leads to a more open society and government...however, we should be careful with high technology that can be used for military purposes and we should also be wide-eyed in terms of China's past use of slave labor.

Believe me, I am not hysterical in the least, Communists like to rattle the saber, which they are doing now because IMO they are getting ready to settle the Taiwan dispute. Just pointing out they have to know what will happen if they would make good on this threat.

China has never been an aggressor with regard to territorial or ideological expansion

Err... HELLO??? I won't even go into the past, but will just talk about China's actions since '49 --> the annexation of Tibet, the decimation of the native Uighurs, the attack on India, on Vietnam, the threat to Taiwan, the eyeing of Siberia, etc. etc.

Tibet at one time was free.

North Korea is a proxy colony that could not survive with out China.

China supported North Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia during the 70's and 80's and that support killed millions of the local population in both South Vietnam and Cambodia.

They now are expanding beyond their borders by special agreements in Venezuela, Canada and their bid to buy Unocal. BTW I am talking oil and energy agreements. I would watch out for economic/commodity attacks if I were you. They are usually legal and safer. And they have beaucoup dollars to spend.

Enough said.