I see nothing in the context of the thread to suggest a situation that's "between China and the US".
China seems to me far more likely to collapse under the weight of internal issues than the US: their internal issues dwarf ours.
I see nothing in the context of the thread to suggest a situation that's "between China and the US".
China seems to me far more likely to collapse under the weight of internal issues than the US: their internal issues dwarf ours.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”
H.L. Mencken
Objectively this is true.
But putting countries into boxes labeled BLUFOR and OPFOR is far simpler and more emotionally gratifying, even if it obfuscates the reality of the situation.
Aside from that, we love to be the scrappy underdog. It's individual psychological payoffs that lead people to think about US-Chinese relations in these distorted terms. That kind of calculus can be maddeningly difficult, and sometimes impossible, to alter.
"Nevermind" - Emily Littela
Last edited by AdamG; 02-04-2013 at 07:23 PM. Reason: Reading comprehension skills, recto-cranial inversion
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21307212Google Chairman Eric Schmidt uses a new book to call China an Internet menace that backs cyber-crime for economic and political gain, reports say. The New Digital Age - due for release in April - reportedly brands China "the world's most active and enthusiastic filterer of information".
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
A detective story, not Sherlock Holmes or CSI, that finally talks to the suspect, who works for the, read on:http://mobile.businessweek.com/artic...ntity-unmasked
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