To: af_vet_rr
I suspected this was all about how China really isn't a threat. "China's the greatest power the world has ever known and they cannot be stopped. We should make nice with them so that they will still let us play ball when they own the field."
Sorry, not buying.
46 posted on
09/12/2012 8:02:14 AM PDT by
jboot
(This isn't your father's America. Stay safe and keep your powder dry.)
To: jboot
I suspected this was all about how China really isn't a threat. "China's the greatest power the world has ever known and they cannot be stopped. We should make nice with them so that they will still let us play ball when they own the field."
I still suspect it was Romnney playing election year politics.
I don't think Romney was trying to play down the threat of China, because anybody who thinks that China doesn't mean to replace us as the predominant power in the world is a fool, living in a dream world.
Like I said, right now, China makes the cheap crap you buy in Wal-Mart or our cheap electronics. What happens in 10 or 20 years (or less), when they make the expensive stuff that Boeing or GE makes, and they win contracts with other countries? It's bad enough we've lost our manufacturing base for many cheaper things. Start putting aerospace/defense companies out of business or nearly out of business, or forcing the taxpayers to prop them up even more than we normally do, and you're going to see some real problems in this country.
The really sad thing, and you or somebody else mentioned this, but we are cooperating with them! There was a thread here last year that discussed a deal that Boeing had struck with a Chinese aerospace company. Even as Boeing was partnering with them, the Boeing CEO was saying that within 20 years, Boeing's biggest competitor would most likely be a Chinese company! The computer industry - same thing 10-20 years ago.
Top it all off with a White House and Congress that don't want to really play tough with China when it comes to international trade, even while China protests its companies, and things are going to get really bad.
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