The Sino Menace continues

[myrgthful]

I just happened across another article on China's arms buildup.

I have been convinced for the last several years of attention to China's behavior that we will be at war with them in another ten or twenty years. It is only a matter of time.

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[starflight78]

WAR? are you serious? When are we going to stop having those?

[myrgthful]

Never. Not until the end of the world, or the end of Humanity, or both. It is a part of human society. Simian researchers have published papers and videos of Chimpanzee groups holding wars over territory and resources. It is part of our heritage and our basic thinking as creatures.

Diplomacy, politics, economics, war... these are all different ways of dealing with the same basic, social forces. The struggle between individuals and groups for dominance, to have what we want, and to control others. Whether that is controlling others for our own gain, or controlling the dangerous would-be controllers so that they cannot conquer the rest of us.

Some of us can try to be more civilized and rational... but the problem is that, for as long as even one nation or group will barbarically threaten the rest of us, the rest of us have to be willing to go to war to protect our more peaceful way of life. Ironic, isn't it?

I paraphrase and probably recall things incorrectly

[violalee]

But when my parents lived in Indonesia, they routinely read in newspapers that China is planning an all out attack on the US. Why this is kept quiet stateside, we may never know, but it's pretty wide knowledge in the Asian region. Also, the articles are practically impossible to find; my Dad tried to look them up to show my husband, and was able to locate the papers, even the days he remembered the articles being printed, but amazingly, the articles were omitted.

Lastly, and possibly the strangest, is that when they packed up their furniture, he packed some of the papers including these articles. Upon unpacking, the papers seemed to be gone.

Now, I don't know how much of this is a) my father lying to my husband (not intentionally, he just likes to play jokes) and b) my husband embellishing (he has a penchant for being hyperbolic) but it's not the first I've heard of such nefarious activities.

Re: I paraphrase and probably recall things incorrectly

[myrgthful]

Right, it's pretty subtle

[hollyday4ever]

According to Nostradamus, the next Anti-Christ will come from the East. So I've listened to people arguing over whether the next Hitler will be Japanese or North Korean and wondered why nobody thought China was a threat?

If you are a fan of conspiracy theories, think about that lovely one-child policy of theirs, implemented in the late 70's that favors boys and leaves baby girls in the woods to die. Those early babies would be entering their 30's today.

Hmmm, a mostly male adult population in a country that hold's 1/5 of the world's pop. That's one incredible army.

Those who aren't worried are sticking their heads in the sand.