Are we slowly becoming Great Britain? Options

[Hartmann]

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Is...id=oid%3A494048

My girlfriend sent me this link after I told her about a conversation I had with a co-worker. We were talking about China and the slow takeover they are making. We are in debt to them and they aren't willing to call our bill because they like the money that is coming in and are using it to build cities.

It's like they are ignored problem. They have nukes, they are losing natural resources, they've bought up most of Africa and Australia for their natural resources and pretty soon something is going to snap and Japan will become China's Puerto Rico.

[Aaron]

http://www.techsans.net/forums/index.php?s...amp;#entry62604

First, Russia and China are not historical allies. Indeed, though they were both Communist countries during the Cold War, oftentimes the Russians were just as worried about what the Chinese were doing as they were with the West. This worked to the advantage of the United States as we were sometimes able to play them off each of each other.

Furthermore, the Chinese and Russians do not have the capability to send an army of any significant size to invade the continental United States. The Russians can barely operate day-to-day as it is, and wouldn't be able to logistically support an army in the United States even if, by some miracle, they were able to get it here. The Chinese have a lot of men, but their navy is far, far inferior to ours in both size and quality; Japan and South Korea have navies that are comparable to China, if that helps put it in perspective.

Assuming for the moment that the Chinese were able to build the massive amounts of transport ships without the United States finding out, they wouldn't get a quarter of the way across the Pacific before we found out.

Quoted a post I wrote a while ago to save myself some trouble...

Basically, in a straight-up conventional war, China would be fucked if they attacked us. NATO (UK, Germany, France, Canada, etc.) would be committed to join in our side, and it's highly unlikely that China would have any substantial allies.