Real Scary

If true, this is scary!

China vs. The US

Yeah, if it's true (and it's at least plausible), then bush has done us no favors by leaving us in a state of military weakness and financial depletion. Oh, did I mention who was buying our debts in war bonds lately?

Erm ... it might be scary if it were at least slightly plausible. Dontcha think that if the Chinese wanted more "living space" they might consider invading their immediate neighbor to the north, which has three times the land mass of the US and a military that can't even rescue its own sailors from downed submarines??

Steve

this guy is my new hero. I'm moving to beijing.

well, achieving the 500m figure would involve killing off more than half their OWN people, so I doubt it. the 20% quote obviously refers to the fact that almost exactly 20% of the human race is - you guessed it - chinese.

China wants the Us for two reasons. Once, our land is the most plentiful. Now at 300 million, I am sure it has the capiacity to support many more. Most of Russua north of China is Siberia, a land that won't support that many more people.

Also, the US is the world leader right now. It was stated that there isn't room for two tigers. In another words, the US must be done away with in order for China to become the new world leader.

This is alarming. We are fighting a poor country that had no designs on the US. Meanwhile, North Korea and China are planning a future military attack on us and we just look the other way.

The only thing that can save us is for Dick Chenny to "think" that there are lots of oil wells or oil fields in North Korea and China. WE would be at war in a matter of months. Bush?? He doesn't know. Cheney and associates have been running this country ever since Bush got elected the first time.

Thankfully, the Hal Turner Show is known to be a racist rag.

Imagine if you possibly can....a nation's leadership desperate to stay in power uses belligerent rhetoric to unite people in a common, yet ridiculous, cause. Hardliners say and do ridiculous things that their constituents like, while the rest of the country mostly ignores them. Sound familiar?

China is not in a position to dictate war terms to the United States. As for the aforementioned debt that China is amassing on the United States: China's leaders are acting exactly like every other country's do, in their own self-interest. While it may appear that China is buying up U.S. bonds to put us over a barrel, they're actually doing it for economic reasons. Keeping the yuan artificially low against the dollar maintains China's export-driven economy. Every year millions of impoverished Chinese leave the countryside for jobs in the cities, and only the export boom makes them available. China's leaders worry greatly that if the economy slows down, social unrest will threaten them.

Obviously, at some point it will become counterproductive for them to keep investing in American debt. Whether they change their mind for economic or political reasons, that move would hurt their economy at least as much as ours and probably a lot more.

Aloofman, I agree that their primary motivation is economic, certainly. I just don't think it's much of a stretch of the imagination to see this as a potential "bargaining chip" in the future. I don't blame any government for being self-interested, that's their supposed purpose. I just wish ours was- on behalf of the people instead of on behalf of the politicians.

I'd never heard of him before, but yep, it was pretty clear to me that he's a xenophobic scaremonger.

Steve

whatever; I still wholeheartedly support anyone who is serious about purging 80% of the human race.

And would you be in the 80% or the 20%?? Maybe we should start a poll on this ...

Steve :dilemma:

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The most humane way to bring our population under control is to limited the number of births. The population will then be reduced over time. I am not sure that we need to reduce the world population by 80 percent in every country. I would think that each country has its own needs. Canada the second largest nation in land size has only 35 million people. Their needs are different from
China, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Those nations are seriously overcrowded.

I think the question of how many people each nation should ideally contain is very much secondary to the question of HOW MANY HUMANS CAN I EXTERMINATE