Good relations between Britain and the US didn't happen over night. Afterall, Britain is the only country that marched onto US soil (and I'm not just talking about revolutionary war, but the also the War of 1812). During the Civil War, Britain built warships for the Confederacy. As far as turning facist, I believe China will become a democracy in the future.
You mean like movies and games switching the logical enemy from China to the laughable thought of invasion of the US by North Korea?
Ahhhh.....a differnce in perspective here. Here is a good test case. They switch to North Korea, a politically correct move. Now, here is the kicker in what I call reverse political correctness, where you call China the "logical choice". Why is China the logical choice in a movie where the former USSR and Cuba were the enemy in that movie. And when they changed to North Korea, why the outrage? I can understand that it is laughable in that North Korea doesn't have the ability to invade the US, but why the online venom that it should be China? Isn't that a form of political correctness. The original movie about the USSR with the underling Cuba invading the US. Why is there this reverse political correctness that China has to fit a movie role that was created specifically for the USSR and at a time of the USSR?
However, if say, 10-20 years from now, they recreate a movie like "Gung Ho", and put the Chinese in there, instead of the Japanese, then that would be a more accurate remake of a movie using Chinese businessmen instead of Japan businessmen. Much closer than replacing the USSR with the Chinese in Red Dawn.
When people become indignant at switching out China in Red Dawn, they are pushing their own political correctness.
As far as turning facist, I believe China will become a democracy in the future.
Taiwan became democratic in the 1980s. And in some respects the CCP is closer to the pre-1948 Guomindang/KMT than the current iteration of the Chinese National People's Party. But even then, we are looking at a very nasty 2 generations. Ahhhh.....a differnce in perspective here. Here is a good test case. They switch to North Korea, a politically correct move. Now, here is the kicker in what I call reverse political correctness, where you call China the "logical choice". Why is China the logical choice in a movie where the former USSR and Cuba were the enemy in that movie. And when they changed to North Korea, why the outrage? I can understand that it is laughable in that North Korea doesn't have the ability to invade the US, but why the online venom that it should be China? Isn't that a form of political correctness. The original movie about the USSR with the underling Cuba invading the US. Why is there this reverse political correctness that China has to fit a movie role that was created specifically for the USSR and at a time of the USSR?
China is a brutal communist regime and the closest thing to a second superpower. It only speaks of invading Taiwan, and controlling the "First and Second Island Chain".
PRC military theorists conceive of two island "chains" as forming a geographic basis for China’s maritime defensive perimeter. The precise boundaries of these chains have never been officially defined by the Chinese government, and so are subject to some specualtion. By one account, China's "green water" extends eastward in the Pacific Ocean out to the first island chain, which is formed by the Aleutians, the Kuriles, Japan's archipelago, the Ryukyus, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Borneo. Further eastward is "blue water" extending to the second island chain running from the north at the Bonin Islands and moving southward through the Marianas, Guam, and the Caroline Islands.