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The soldiers should have had sponsors' patches on them, you know, like in auto racing where a driver's uniform has patches from STP, Champion Spark Plugs, etc. They [the Chinese police] are paid from taxes in China, and the tax revenues include proceeds from items coming over here on all those cargo ships. Guess what the sponsor patches would read: "Wal-Mart", "Home Depot", and "Consumers who save a buck by buying junk".

I know not everyone agrees, but China isn't going to become a free society by an infusion of green backs, and all the barrels of cash going over there are propping up a dictatorship and modernizing its military. The USSR was broken by letting its economy implode, but with the PRC we seem all on fire to transfuse it with billions of dollars of cash. Did we just lose the will to fight? At the least we should refuse to trade with any country that does not have a free press.

It used to be said that capitalists would sell the rope that they'd be hanged with. Now capitalists are falling all over themselves to get a piece of the huge billion + rope market and think that so long as they are the ones providing the rope that they'll never be hanged.

The USSR was broken by letting its economy implode, but with the PRC we seem all on fire to transfuse it with billions of dollars of cash.

I doubt we want to renew the arms race, and try to outspend the Chinese, do we?