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Last time I checked, China hasn't started any wars or oppressed any peoples outside their soil over the last decade.
Must have missed where they are enough of a cause of instability to even ask this question.
Nah, that's a scary country. They can kill us all.
I really do think they are out to get us.
I've met some China natives. They aren't out to get 'us,' they're out to make China the best. They are brainwashed into nationalism. They want to be better than us, but it seems that they are pretty convinced that economics is the way to do it. And so because of that, I think they might be a stablizing force. Not because they aren't powerful and motivated, but because they seem willing to play by the rules.
Yea, but a lot of asians come to the United States. My college is like 60% asian. Communist country, which means that there are a few out to get us.
Yea, but in every country, there are the citizens, then the politicians. That's the problem with our system. Bush wanted to go to war, so the citizens had to fight for him.
That's what I'm saying about China.
Many are adopted as children so they're never indoctrinated into any of that. Besides we have large amounts of vietnamese refugees and such who are asian and VERY much anti communism. It's not as if asian = chinese, or that even being ethnically chinese = communist.
My impression of Americans circa 2003 was that they wanted to go to war. And Bush was just the figurehead onto which that sentiment was poured out by providing a target.
I haven't seen China using territorial ambitions with force. They've usually been using money and development to influence other nation-states around the globe (as we used to). They're not much of a dangerous threat if that's the method of "attack".
If you think that, you must be living in a cave.
Nope. I just have been to China and have a few Chinese friends. I'm not worried that they're going to attack anybody. If I were to "blindly" compare the records of our two countries foreign policy ventures over the last decade, it would be extremely difficult to arrive at a conclusion that it was China that is the unstable country and not us.
It's not the citizens, it's the government to be afraid of.
That's what I was referring to with "foreign policy". If you're in some theoretically neutral country, I'd be far more worried about American military interventionism than Chinese trade policies and resource purchases or investment.
The average run-of-the-mill citizens of any country are all basically good people. Most just want the same things everywhere I have traveled, and that is to keep a good roof over their family's heads, food and clothing enough be comfortable, and not to have to worry about the unseen dangers of the world.
Having said that, I also know that there are a few who want beyond all reason – Those obsessed with the greed object of their choice – and these are the ones who, if given the chance and are in a position to take advantage of that chance will cause untold suffering and damage to get whatever it is that they are obsessed with.
A few examples are; 1) Genghis Khan, 2) Saddam Hussein, 3) Benito Mussolini, 4) Julius Caesar, 5) Adolf Hitler and 6) Mao Tse Tung
They all walked all over their own people and caused great hardships to achieve their own desires – and most of these left the rest of the world in shambles.
It is not the Chinese people that we have to worry about, but those in the world who have leadership positions that would follow in the footsteps of evil to attain whatever it is that they believe is worth destroying the world over.
Just my not-so-humble opinion.