Posted on 06/05/2013 10:26:37 AM PDT by kimtom
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As America grew in the 1800s from a republic of a few millions, whose frontier stopped at the Mississippi, into a world power, there were constant collisions with the world’s greatest empire.
In 1812, we declared war on Britain, tried to invade Canada and got our Capitol burned. In 1818, Andrew Jackson, on an expedition into Spanish Florida to put down renegade Indians harassing Georgia, hanged two British subjects he had captured, creating a firestorm in Britain.
In 1838, we came close to war over Canada’s border with Maine; in 1846, over Canada’s border with the Oregon Territory.
After the Civil War, Fenians conducted forays into Canada to start a U.S.-British battle that might bring Ireland’s independence. In 1895, we clashed over the border between Venezuela and British Guiana.
War was avoided on each occasion, save 1812. Yet all carried the possibility of military conflict between the world’s rising power and its reigning power. Observing the pugnacity of 21st-century China, there appear to be parallels with the aggressiveness of 19th-century America.
China is now quarreling with India over borders. Beijing claims as her national territory the entire South and East China seas and all the islands, reefs and resources therein, dismissing the claims of half a dozen neighbors.
Beijing has bullied Japan and the Philippines and told the U.S. Navy to stay out of the Yellow Sea and Taiwan Strait.
In dealing with America, China has begun to exhibit an attitude that is at times ........
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Stop buying non-essential items and never buy a Made In China product.
And after the ten million other "hard-core" conservatives and I have done that... then what?
Regards,
Time to stop looking backwards.
This idea has been beaten to death for decades...not years..
It has never amounted to anything but increases in China made products purchased in the US.
I recall the 60’s, before China when the attention was on Japan and it's imports into the US.
Nothing ever came of it...
The problem is, that Americans are all for something until their own ox gets gored.
Ten bucks says many of those agreeing with this story and making comments are also waiting with great anticipation for the new I-phone in September.
I always chuckle at the trade restrictions on Cuba. Yet we trade with Communist China even after their aid and help in killing Americans in Korea and Vietnam.
“I always chuckle at the trade restrictions on Cuba.”
I tend to agree with you but then realize that Cuba has nothing to offer in the way of natural resources that we cannot produce ourselves. If Cuba was oil-rich, for example, we would be trading with them. Other than that, all they have is sugar cane and Louisiana alone can outgrow Cuba.
“and told the U.S. Navy to stay out of the Yellow Sea and Taiwan Strait.”
Did the U. S. Navy listen? ;-)
China does not want war with the U. S. A. They need us for their survival.
Theoria, check with your sister Practicia - it’s about not propping up a totalitarian regime and economy that has nothing to offer in exchange, unlike China and Vietnam today.
Nothing cuts down on emissions like socialism.
Supporting a communist regime with trade is not a wonderful exchange in benefit.
End welfare as we know it.
End foreign aid as we know it.
Kick UN off US soil.
All foreign troops out of US.
Secure the Borders physically.
Destroy all southern border incursions by Mexican armed forces.
Order the US military to go into mexico and pursue and destroy all gangs, without mercy. No capture policy, find and destroy. This will allow illegals to return to a safer country, one of the reasons why they can’t be productive in their own land.
Deport illegals back to Mexico. Especially repeat border crossers, violent illegals, drunk illegals, illegals protesting US law on US soil, illegals living off US citizens’ money.
“Cuba has a pretty large reservoir of oil surrounding their little island utopia”
Several oil companies have pulled out of Cuba because while there is a little bit of oil there, it is not the ‘pretty large reservoir’. Some of the oil that they are finding is in international waters.
Not long term. Today we are nice to have, but in a few decades?
China thinks long term. The US has no grand strategy.
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