[Jeff Head]

China is building alliances, pacts, and coalitions that directly oppose our foreign policy throughout the world, and particularly in the Far East and Mid East. Those pacts are now reaching all the way into our hemisphere. Russia is directly complicit in the activity, despite the danger a strong Red China poses to them (shades of early World War II).

We'd best find a Ronald Reagan for our day and the will to treat them as the "Evil Empire" that they are, or we may well face the types of horrors described in:

THE DRAGON'S FURY SERIES

[Flavius]

yup, she's coming and its no Regan, or Patton...

Hillary silent on *insert current crisis* debate, wet finger still in the air

[ardmoreokie]

Most of the alliances/pacts that China is building are trade and oil related, not military. China has no navy nor the will to fight campaigns outside of China.

[strategofr]

"Russia is directly complicit in the activity, despite the danger a strong Red China poses to them (shades of early World War II)."

I think you overestimate the threat China poses to Russia. Currently, China confronts the U. S. (which has pledged to defend Taiwan, which China has practically pledged to invade) and Japan---a former military kitten that is quite quickly transforming into a military tiger under the Chinese stimulus.


These enemies for a country that is an "economic giant" primarily on a fantasy level---with 300 million people living in poverty. And let me point out, this has nothing to do with US-style poverty. In China, living in poverty means if you don't get the money to buy rice for the next three weeks---people in your family start to starve to death. When you live in poverty on that level, the possibility of armed insurrection is never that far away because you have very little to lose.

The notion that China might decide to take on Russia at this point seems like fantasy to me.