How We Could Sleepwalk into a
War with China
Posted By: earlybird, 3/10/2021 2:38:11 PM
China and the United States today are on a collision course. No less an authority than Henry Kissinger said just over a year ago that the U.S. and China are in the “foot hills of a Cold War.” (Snip) The two nations are significantly at odds over the status of the South China Sea, which China claims as territorial waters, potentially giving them control over rich oil and gas deposits and dominance over the 40% of the world’s trade that passes through these strategic seas. (Snip)China and the U.S. are also in disagreement over a wide variety of trade and tariff rules attendant to an unbalanced trading relationship;
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What Meghan misunderstood about the
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monarchy 26 replies
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How We Could Sleepwalk into a
War with China 10 replies
War with China 10 replies
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Battered Conservative No More
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of Both Worlds 25 replies
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It is disclosed that the author is co-author of a new novel on this subject. China expert for decades Michael Pillsbury has similar warnings in his excellent, readable nonfiction The Hundred-Year Marathon, which describes (with numerous source references) the Chinese plan to be the #1 global power by 2049, the end of the 100 years in the title. Their slow and steady wooing of the West, buying off media and politicians, infiltrating Western institutions of higher learning - it is all there. Not to mention cyberwarfare. This is an interesting article. I recommend Pillsbury’s book.