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i think the folks who see China as a global menace are nuts.

Does anyone know anyone who is Chinese that exhibits anything that fits the profile of being from a nation bent on world domination?

All they want is to secure their energy supplies and not have other countries (like ours) be interfering with their affairs... i say WE need to back off them.. let Taiwan protect itself.

we’re in a different world now and the old arrangements no longer are to our benefit.. they are all liabities

All they want is to secure their energy supplies and not have other countries (like ours) be interfering with their affairs... i say WE need to back off them.

I'm inclined to agree, as long as that means we look after our own (security) interests first, too. That means strong alliances with our friends in Asia, such as Japan, in spite of China's foot stomping.

I do think China assisting Cuba to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico borders on a provokation, though.

Does anyone know anyone who is Chinese that exhibits anything that fits the profile of being from a nation bent on world domination?

Does anyone know anyone who is American that wants the same? Ok, Hillary, but we are familiar with our tyrannical socialists.

I would submit that China, having a far greater population, would be more capable of producing someone who not only desired world conquest, but was capable of achieving it.

Unfortunately China signed their own death warrant by pursuing the three nuclear shield strategy (help Pakistan get nukes to counter India, help North Korea get nukes to counter US-Japan, and help Iran get nukes to sap US strength by causing mischief in Middle East). The only reason the US has not taken drastic action on China is because in the last 20 years the US has establish deep commercial relations with China and will need time to unwind. The US has establish agreements with Vietnam as the initial steps of making her the alternative low cost manufacturing center and making overtures to India to make her the low cost hi tech manufacturing alternative to China. Today India is about to make a decision on possibly choosing US fighter to replace her aging MiG-21 fighters. This decision is a very important symbol for it marks the first time India will buy US weapons since the beginning of the Cold War. Vietnam and India will become the alternates to China and possible the military counter balance on the Chinese border. Up to this day, China never had to spend a chunk of her defense budget in fielding a med tech army to guard her borders since her reapproachment with the Russians. This has free up her military resources to research advanced weapons and purchase Russian weapons. IMHO twenty years from now, China will collapse financially because the US will shift their manufacturing and services to India and Vietnam and at the same time the arms race from a US armed India and Vietnam will sap her resources. In the end I think China will become unstable, and the US will support Sanjing, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Taiwan to declare independence. By the end of the 21st Century, China will lose half of her territory and most of her natural resources and be consigned to a Third World nation with pockets of affluent city states. I predict the US will still be a super power at the end of the 21st Century, India will advance and China will fall.