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2022-07-29 China-Japan-Koreas

Strategists admit West is goading China into war

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Posted by Tiny Jeater6933 2022-07-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 Biden and China's Xi Jinping WILL meet 'face to face' once aides negotiate a time as the two leaders have 'direct' conversation about Taiwan in call following Beijing's 'play with fire' threat on Pelosi

Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-29 06:36|| 2022-07-29 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 I once attended a big conference at the Ex-Im Bank. The featured lunch speaker was from the PRC. He acknowledged that US concerns with Chinese intellectual piracy were partly valid.

Then he said,

"China will solve this problem but it will take time since we don't want to violate the privacy rights of our citizens."

I broke up laughing but was the only one who did (several hundred in the audience) and several people looked at me in disapproval. The Chinese speaker got a standing applause when he finished his remarks.

Anyway, it shows how naive people in the USA were (and probably still are) on China issues.

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-07-29 08:43|| 2022-07-29 08:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I broke up laughing but was the only one

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Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-29 09:17|| 2022-07-29 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 "China will solve this problem but it will take time since we don't want to violate the privacy rights of our citizens."

Texas Instruments had the patent on the integrate circuit. It took the Japanese several decades later to recognize it [long after Sony, Toshiba, et al made their money and place in the electronics market].

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-29 09:43|| 2022-07-29 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 The Australian left is owned by China.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-29 10:27|| 2022-07-29 10:27|| Front Page Top

#6 expansionist actors like NATO

Looks like Putin owns a bit of him, too.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-29 10:29|| 2022-07-29 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Let's face it, Little Aussie would like Uncle Sam to hold his hand while crossing the street!

Posted by Waldemar Gromorong9327 2022-07-29 14:34|| 2022-07-29 14:34|| Front Page Top

#8 US was crushing Chinas economy during Trump. Only a fool would desire war, you never really know how it'll end up. Ask Putin.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-07-29 15:47|| 2022-07-29 15:47|| Front Page Top

#9 The opening proposition of this piece ignores the fact that Communist China has been planning on war with America for decades

Really! That's extraordinary. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

If there's a war, the US steps on China's oil supply from the Middle East. War over immediately. Ever seen "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"? When Master Blaster turns the crank and cuts off the supply of meethane to Bartertown?

Posted by Tiny Jeater6933 2022-07-29 16:33|| 2022-07-29 16:33|| Front Page Top

#10 War can be unwinnable and still be something one plans for.

To get around the oil issue for example: (a) China might dominate markets in things many US stores depend on so those stores would pressure the government not to get involved in a war (b) might encourage other nations to shift manufacturing into China where it is cheap and where a war would cause total destabilization of western economies (c) Might allow enough trade and promises of a massive market to get greedier companies to push for peace whatever the cost to preserve their profits (and future profits) (d) Buy a large number of US politicians.

All of these things could be seen as ways to make the USA less likely to stand by Taiwan. That's not even getting into their military expansions.

That and the fact that China has actively threatened both the US and Taiwan for decades using generals and others to preserve deniability.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-07-29 17:32|| 2022-07-29 17:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Since the Second Taiwan Strait Crises, 1958, Chuck.

Shelling lasted until 1979. Even fired shells when President Eisenhower was visiting 1960, in fact vigorously while he was there.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-29 17:42|| 2022-07-29 17:42|| Front Page Top

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