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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 10 years ago

Anybody think China is a threat?

Why is it that people don't think of China as a threat to us? I mean they are an economic superpower and are becoming a Military superpower very quickly. I just don't understand why people don't think we would ever be at war with them if not soon than later.

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  • 10 years ago
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    Being a Chinese, I always find it difficult to understand why American people, living in the world's only superpower, would bring up ideas like "Chinese Threat". It really likes Gulliver, seeing no threat from human beings, only focused on the growth of Lilliput. May I ask you have you got any idea how does this asian country rule its people? How does Chinese get their economic boost? What kind of weapon its army use? You don't know a thing, all you heard are rumors or useless numbers like GDP etc.

    Chinese army is like a big skeleton. It looks scary, yet can't move itself. If you crush it, you may probably get hurt from break bones, but it will never attack you first. You American people have beheld how Iraqi army, glorified as the forth most powerful army in the world before, was stamped like a defenseless bug. Chinese army is almost the same. It gets an unimaginable number of soldiers while its technology level can not compare to that of western world in WWII. And what about the newest fight plane and the aircraft carrier? God bless your innocent mind! Those things are mere shell of decommissioned Russian machines. We felt ashamed of our government when it dare not to pay you back after you bombed our embassy in Yugoslavia.

    And Chinese economy? The so-called the world's No.2 GDP has bewildered your eyes. China is like a starving people who eats his own fresh, the taller he grows the nearer he go to death. We have neither advanced technology nor management theory thus Chinese business can only make benefits from selling materials or primary products, which repay us with environmental sacrifices, labor loss and relatively low income. But materiales will always be used up one day and the trendline for GDP growth will always go down. You see "Made in China" but overlook the fact that we are living in a highly polluted environment and earning less than half a dollar a day. You sell an IPad, we need to make thousands of clothes to exchange, that is the "threat"!!!

    Here, I give you a reason why you shouldn't be at war with us: we are your largest debtor, we Chinese, along with people from other countries in the world, give you money to buy our products and to enjoy your national health insurance. You are the world police who arrests your own criminal, you are the world judge who ruled your own sentence, you are the reason for the reason, truth for the truth. And we are only humble followers, obeyers!!

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    They don't seem to be even just about being an international splendid-energy. They have a colossal military, however no technique to transfer it out of China in a valuable method. They can protect themselves and that's all. That isn't more likely to difference within the subsequent two decades. Also, if appear into their specific economic system, it looks they're going to fall round 2020ish. They too have wherever among 20-forty% of dangerous investments (plenty as favors to CCP Members industry pursuits with little to no go back), they're coming to a interval of gradual progress and the blend of the 2 will ship the folks into an uproar. two/3rds of China continues to be greatly undeveloped as good, that is a colossal tail to tug. As some distance as navy family members, the US and China have way more causes to best friend sooner or later then pass to warfare with each and every different. Our pursuits honestly run parallel, now not adverse to one another. And what occurs if they are trying to name within the debt, good, we simply print that so much cash and poof, it is paid off. Our economic system collapses, however China's is going with it, so why could they do it?

  • 10 years ago

    I think the Chinese are a threat economically, militarily however I doubt they will ever be as powerful as the United States.

    China may surpass the U.S. economically if we don't get out of this mess. But I believe militarily we will still be number one.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    10 years ago

    Dude, the US have ALWAYS been attacking people.

    And you don't call the US a threat?

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