What Does China Want From U.S.?
137842
China, like many other nations in the world, feel that the USA is an arrogant young power which does not realize that the Chinese civilization has been around for quite a while; thousand of years. So they expect the American government to facilitate the creation of a relationship of mutual respect and above all not to meddle in China's sphere of influence.
187040
You have it backwards. China isn't ready to compete with us.\n\nSeriously, do you think we became a Superpower through blundering along? We know China's there, and China isn't a threat in any real way but nuclear.\n\nGive them fifty more years, then we'll talk.
194594
He's trying to 'mend the fence' so to speak.  Sino-American relations are a bit tense right now over the trade deficit and their currency policies, so I think this is China's way of sending a good-will tour to the US.
672391
China is the second most powerful country they out number us.  Only advantage we have is our technology and wepons are more advance because we spend more money on this.
216553
for china it would be:\nWealthy Landowners\n\nPeasants \n\nMerchants
205606
There are already some good answers, but no one has said anything about China.\n\nWe buy so much crap from China, but they buy NOTHING from us. We owe them alot of money, they practically own us.
295793
China, and they will be more arrogant than the US because of their lack of human rights and huge military.  China will not reign long as a super power because overpopulation will make even basic consumer goods pricy.  The society will fragment into haves and have nots again. China and it's new found wealth is juicing up and kicjing up it's heals to emulate the US that was back in the 60s.  They want to send men into space and build skyscrapers. Increased communication and interaction will eventually make borders unnecessary.
574515
We need abundant trade with China to finance Bush's stupid war in Iraq and just pay for all of the the out-of-control Republican spending we need China to purchase American debt.  So we turn a blind eye to that kind of thing - and Tibet and..
145932
i'll answer your question without going off on a tangent like some of the other morons who've already answered.  First, i wanna address that idiot "DarkStarInMyAsss":  You're right that your U.S. people have the rights to change/abolish your own government, and not the Yellows, but did you consider what YOUR U.S. People have been doing around the world? WHO made you guys THE BOSS of all other countries.  So basically, DarkStarInMyASSS, you're a frickin' HYPOCRITE who's literally confused in life.  Here's a dime, now go and contribute to help pay off your U.S.'s $6 Trillion debt to foreign countries (the majority of which idiots like you owe to China).\n\nNow, to answer the REAL question:  Would i mind if China invaded and occupy the U.S. ?  NO !!!  Maybe it's time for this country to have a taste of its own medicine, and see what it's like to be invaded by a foreign power.  But you know what?  If the invading country happens to be China, they're not going to do it through animalistic and barbarric brute force and strength like the so called "nice and benevolent" U.S. did to the Middle East (what a crock of BULL !!!), because China is a better country and people than the cocky U.S. people.  Instead, China will economically and peacefully buy up all the major businesses and corporations here, and will control everything financially, and I think that's the better way to do things rather than bombing people.  And the U.S. should get ready for a wake-up call too because it WILL happen pretty soon.  You can see it already:  Chinese, as a language, will be the global language in the upcomming century, and English will take second place.  There are just too many Chinese running the world right now.  Oh well, too bad.  Learn to live with it.
439085
China is biding her time.  She has been around for thousands of years.  She stays under the radar, but will assist the states who support the immediate radicals like Hezbollah until the radical Islamics burn out and fail their intentions for domination.  China wants to take over the world.  She will wait generations for the tide to turn in her favor.
281044
I think China will do exactly as it's told by the West or their economy will not grow.\n\nThere's a Disney Land in China 4 heavens sake!
560478
did you know china pays most of the u.s. debt? so technically.. they own us. think about it.
241350
It'll be a major economic power, but not like a power that'll rule the world.  Those days are over.\n\nIf anything, China will be the next superpower.
82697
I think thats a great idea.  I would contact someone at the Chinese embassy in Washington DC.\n\nProbably expensive but would be a great setting.
127221
China is a threat but by far not the real threat. Its nation has survived for thousands of years. These people are not stupid; Eastern military thought is superior to that of the West, even if their military technology is not as advanced as the West's. The Chinese follows the wisdom of Sun Tzu's Art of War; the most important teaching it has is: "To win a thousand victories is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."\n\nIndeed the US is in debt, just like -every- other country in the world. China would not have to even invade and occupy the US; why would it want that responsibility? It already has 2 billion people to worry about. To become the global hegemone, they only need to sit back and watch the United States throw away its people and its money in its foolish exploits around the world (ie, Iraq?). We are weakening ourselves tremendously in all areas. We are alienating our "allies." We are expending our treasury. We are dulling our weapons of war.\n\nHowever, we must also look at a greater threat to every country in the world. Globalization is demolishing national identities and borders. Multinational Corporations, which have no loyalty to their home countries nor the host countries, are able to manipulate governments to do their bidding. The scariest part is that there is no morality and little accountability; the bottom line of capitalism is making profits at any cost. There is no built in morality within capitalism, rather it relies whatever morality a capitalist has beforehand. Other non-state actors also can threaten the United States of America, such as gangs, drug cartels, mafias, etc. MS-13 is the most dangerous gangs in the US, and it is destroying us from the inside.\n\nIf we faced China, it would be easier to know who the enemy is and how to fight them. But as we can see in the past few years, it is the more shadowy enemy that we cannot fight or defeat. Al Qaeda is a perfect example of this. It has been years, but we still have not been able to destroy this organization. States seem to be helpless when it comes to fighting non-state actors, but it is no surprise. Non-state actors have to deal with less bureaucracy, don't have many worries that state actors have. As a result, they are flexible, fast, invisible, all over the place, and deadly (thanks to technology like internet, explosives, WMDs, etc).\n\nBut it is not surprising. Before 1648, there was no modern state. There were only non-state actors. And now they will rise again, over the ashes of the states. It sounds apocolyptic, but we only need to see recent events to see that states have a very difficult time fighting them.
9612
As with much in life, the first matter to explore is who has the desire for global power? This then comes back to the human wants and desires which are then collectively expressed by what can broadly be described by the term " culture". Most cultures (political and religious) are inherently competitive. \nSo how will the US loose its power? By repeating the example of the Roman empire - by becomming fat, lazy and the decay of moral standards. \nWhat can be said about a society where the most visible icons are vacuouse "celebrities" who parade their promiscous sex and drug lifestyles and the masses actually admire them!! It wasnt always so. America became great while it still had moral and ethical belief as its guiding light. \n\nSo the question then can be asked - which cultures exhibit the desire to challenge the prevailing world order?\n China is definitely one of my picks. In recent yrs China has made it very plain that it no longer wishes to be inward-looking but wants to become the dominant power on the planet. As it happens, western liberal politics is actually enabling that to happen as we speak by rampant increasing trade, investment and exporting jobs (ie wealth) from the west to China. Can China supplant the US?  My pick is absolutely and given China's history and cultural outlook on the rest of the world, it would not be a benign power that upheld freedom but a highly controlling one ( such as in Orwell's book "1984"). Consider also the horrors of the "Cultural Revolution". (read book "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang)\nSeeing the growing weakness and decay of the US, China is currently spending up large on military capability that goes way beyond any reasonable defense needs. This already concerns the US and in 5-10yrs could match or even surpass.  \n\nGiven Ive chosen to focus on cultural competition, the other megatrend in  my view is that of Islamization (or Islamo-facism as some have described it). The muslim world view is very disturbing to a western liberal such as myself (read the koran yourself - see link in sources)and the recent aggressive action against western values and societies (from 9/11, to French riots, to Sydney riots etc) is just the tip of the iceberg. With western national identities and cultures being ever more diluted in favour of "multicultural societies" (which include massive Muslim enclaves - in Sydney the Police fear to enter such neighbourhoods), the collective will of these multi-cultural societies to stand against competion from other cultures has been substantially weakened and continues to erode from the inside. You need look no further than the impotence of the French to deal with the riots decisively. \nMuslim nations have chosen non-conventional warfare as they dont have the military capability or the expertise to wage open warefare. But terrorism from without, coupled with substantial populations of Muslims inside western countries (over 2 million in US; over 6 million in France; some 350,000 in/around Sydney)are a threat that the west is still largely  blind to. \nBut is it possible for Islamic nations to become a superpower?  Maybe - all its takes is for the US to become weaker and for a revised definition of what a superpower is. Indonesia (the most populous Muslim country with some 120 mill people has a substantial standing army or close to 200,000) could in theory overrun Australia / New Zealand to start with. While at present Australia has superiority in air and sea capability, the gap is not that great. New Zealand has no air force and tiny navy.   \nAmerica did take up the challenge post 9/11 and the limits of military power have been starkly exposed. \nIs America still the undesputed superpower? No. American economic power is also slipping fast. All hail the WTO and unbridled pursuit of short term, short sighted profit that ignores national interests !
333234
Have we not had enough wars?  What did we gain so far?  Disrepect from the rest of the world from what I can gather talking with people around the world.  \nOn what ground do we wage a war with China?  We'll be shooting ourselves in the foot again, and big time!