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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
There are allot of assumptions in play here, the biggest (and oldest) is that America are the good guys and people should always take their side.
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Ask China's neighbors who'd they prefer to be friends with. Don't forget that China has fought wars with almost every neighboring country in the past 50 years.
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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
China is an up and coming power that is playing the empire game the same way the British used to, they are buying their empire. Look at their interests in Africa, they are following the classic british model for economic domination.
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Yes, that turned out very well for the British in the end, didn't it? The Brits are still resented like hell all over Africa.
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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
If things go hot it would be better for nations in the pacific area to either openly side with China or to quietly side with them.
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That's rather short-sighted thinking. Of course, thinking short-sided is what gets people (and countries) into trouble in the first place. BTW, what you suggest is what most European and many other countries around the world did with regards to Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. That turned out well, didn't it?