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Originally posted by strother
A direct war between China and the U.S. would be ludicrous. Everyone's seen "War Games" (even the Chinese) and knows that no one would win. We'll have to be satisfied by arming and training smaller countries to fight for us. Once we get Iraq up to speed, China will have a puppet in the Middle East and we can spar.
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You could have made the same argument with the Soviet Union during the cold war - in fact many did - but the Cold war still existed. We never would have "won" we simply would have extinguished the other leaving a largely uninhabitable planet for us to deal with.
And yes; the same export $$$s - the fact is that if China were not in the picture (which would never be the case) most of things that are being exported from china could likely be products of the USA - they would either be exported by us or instead of us importing them to sell here due to the lower cost we would have more here...round about I suppose.