Significant?

I suspect its the last. No doubt the US Army will soon be buying tanks from Chinamart.

I think that the Chinese are more concerned about N. Korea, actually. Let's see... If the Chinese invaded N. Korea, would we care? We did fight that little old Korean War against them, but most everyone has forgotten about that one. Would the Chinese care if WE invaded N. Korea?

The two big dogs are figuring out what to do about the little yapper before resuming mutual hostilities. China has traditionally been xenophobic, and I see no special reason why they would have a sudden change of heart, except to snap up the latest in guns and ammo. N. Korea would be as good a pretext for this as any.

Glad to hear that we're finally selling Taiwan out to the commies, also.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by marichiko

...Glad to hear that we're finally selling Taiwan out to the commies, also.

While I admire Tiawan's desire for independence, they need to earn it just like everyone else. I, for one, am not willing to cross China over it. I remember when we sailed some saber rattlers between China and Taiwan a few years ago. I wondered how we would respond if China sailed a warship between Miami and Cuba and decided it was a terrible idea.

And NK knows who their daddy is. I suspect China knows exactly what's going on over there and also think that KJI knows exactly where the line in the sand is and won't dare step over it.

Originally Posted by Beestie

1)I flunked history in high school
2)I skated past my college humanities requirements by taking an experimental studies class on the use of archetypes in the top 10 songs featured on MTV in 1999.
3)In my adult life I now labor under the delusion that I can hide my lack of education and general intellectual laziness beneath a facade of arrogance.

Nice try, kid. Give it 30 more years when the people like me who remember Chiang Kai-Shek, know something about the war in Burma during WWII, have heard the name "Mao Tse Tsung", and know the reasons why the US fought in the Korean War are dead.

At that point you can lean on your expensive private or charter school to skip right on by a few lousey 50 -100 years of US/Asian history, wave bye bye to your children as they trudge off to their jobs at Wally World, and open up a letter from the department of defense informing you that your grandson has just been killed attempting to save Alaska from invasion by the Chinese army.

But what the hell? At least you will have been spared cracking the spine of a history book.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I think today's reality is that the Chinese leaders are too busy trying to control their own people and keep themselves in power to worry about expanding their borders.
Oh,....Taiwan comes under the former.

[d1x1e]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I think today's reality is that the Chinese leaders are too busy trying to control their own people and keep themselves in power to worry about expanding their borders.

not a bit of wonder they feel empathy for the bush government.