They won’t matter no matter what they do. The time to start worrying about the CCP was 20 years ago. We are well past the point where anything we do will make a difference.houndawg wrote:It would be interesting to see how a re-armed Japan would affect the equation - seems like WW2 would have left them with more worries than anyone about there being a new boss in the hood.CID1990 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 06, 2021 4:57 pm First of all, I just started to refer to you dolely as “88”, but apparently that trips a lot of digital search engine tripwires. So I’ll just call you UNI
That article is well thought out but it is a big bag of wishful thinking. A lot of people are trying to draw parallels with China and Japan and God help us if those people ever wind up in policy positions (many are now).
We beat the nationalism out of Japan with a baseball bat in the 1940s. They have been the opposite of nationalistic since 1945 and have only become a little assertive starting in about 2005.
China is today what Japan would have been in 1965 if we had signed an armistice with them after taking back all the little shithole islands up to but not including the Philippines.
China is literally equal to us militarily today on most metrics, except tech and volume and they are out superiors in some VERY scary categories. All of the theories that talk about demographic decline, dissent, etc are wishful thinking thought exercises. This is the Chinese century and we just do not realize it yet. They will be dictating fiscal policy to our own Congress within 30 years and that is a fact. None of the bars to Chinese global hegemony will matter at that point.
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Our current domestic culture will ensure that we will become Chinese vassals long before we would ever muster the will to resist.
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