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Originally Posted by daswig
Ancient wise man say: "Easier to kill cub than full-grown wolf." I don't know about advocating a full-scale war with them, but spreading our national legs wide and WWIII are not the only options. We should stop buying goods from them, period. We should stop selling our debt to them, period. We need the jobs here more than we need access to their markets.
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China's entry into the WTO sealed their emergence into the global market. As a WTO member, we cannot boycott their products without being sanctioned ourselves. This is the global "free-market" system that both parties have worked so hard for. To bad democracy is not a prerequisite for entry....
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I'm worried about "mixed messages" being sent. I remember how Kuwait got invaded. They already view us as their national enemy. We've been involved with one shooting war with them (Korea) and another war where they aided our enemy (Vietnam). They're rapidly approaching the cusp where they can legitimately (not as in justifiably, but as in credibly) threaten Japan (and there's A LOT of emnity directed towards Japan....the Japanese may have forgotten Nanking, but trust me, the Chinese haven't.) They're trying to build a blue-water navy, which is a great big red flag waving that we seem to refuse to see. They took Tibet. They're making growling noises towards Taiwan. After they eat Taiwan, they're not going to suddenly say "We're full, thanks!"
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There really is no parallel between pre-Gulf War I Iraq and China. The stakes are completely different. Only suicidally confident Americans would seek a direct military confrontation with China. As they are profiting wildly from despotic capitalism, I doubt that they will bite the hand that feeds any time soon.
As stated earlier, our stance on Taiwan is a semantic game. Everyone involved understands the necessity of it.