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Originally Posted by rusnak
(Post 11305447)
^ oh come on now, you're coloring with a mile long brush.
Americans are not corrupt losers, and "the Chinese" are not concerned with flipping the bird. That's not why they spend decades and billions on building a navy. You are 100% correct that they play the long game. But it is not defense from the West that is their goal. They are building toward expansion of their area of taking of natural resources such as oil, food grain, water, and oceanic biodiversity. They are also looking to exploit ground and fauna as food resources. They will deplete wildlife and need to expand land claims in order to be able to export waste also.
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Say Joe and HRC and corporate/financial leadership is not corrupt...I dare you. Say that American power is not waning...I dare you. Corrupt losers...we ain't what we once were.
At one time the Chinese would demur to the US will..today they tell the USA to go pound sand..we have lost influence with them. I never said it was an offense against the West. From the jump back in early 09 it was filling the vacuum left in the wake of a declining USA to protect their own interests. They are also now projecting their own power to reclaim what they think is theirs..namely Taiwan and to be the regional superpower.
If they do not step into the breach somebody else will.
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