By any chance, could China possibly be allying themselves w/ the terrorists against the USA?
341881
Seeing as there aren't many Muslims in China and the Communist regime has a fair disdain for any sort of religious fantacism, they would make some pretty odd bed-fellows.
1148371
Um I think either North Korea or Iran might spark ww3. China & Russia would back them cuz they are communist or somehow allied or have common interests. I think on the side of the US, would be the UK, EU, Japan, & Austrailia. This is the big shocker though. The hidden communists in Canada would sieze power & use Canada as a staging ground to attack the US & UK. Most of ww3 would be fought in Canada or something along those lines with slight variations in the outcome depending on how it all unfolded.
164008
I don't think so only way if the Pakistan return his land to the INDIA where was belong before,and!! if they help anti terorist ,then we can say yes,but Pakistan is helping the terrorist from under the table,100% I know them and they know and I know too where is osama ben laden,and stiupid America he don't know who is his enemy.
688612
China is also one of the largest arms suppliers to Iran.....do you think the Chinese will believe that the Iranians will attack their arms suppliers?
438605
Yes, China will continue to build their military and there isn't much we can do about it at this point.  However, we can discourage or slow down some of it by not pouring billions of dollars each year into China, by buying their cheap stuff.  Hell, we could buy cheap stuff from Mexico and at the same time relieve ourselves of the immigration fiasco with Mexico because of their lack of jobs.\n\nThe cold war is back and we must recognize that fact.  Like it or not we must quit this nonsense of expecting positive results with Russia playing the part of power broker, relative to Iran, or China with North Korea.  North Korea is China's counter balance to our relationship with Taiwan.  Iran is Russia's counter balance with our interference in the old Eastern Bloc states.\n\nIn the meantime, as China and Russia build militarily, we damn well better stay ahead of them if we expect to survive.  The only thing either country respects is military might.  At this point we are top dog and I personally think it is in our best interest to stay that way.  Diplomacy will not do it, these adversaries who are the legacy of Mao and Stalin are just biding their time until we show weakness like we did in the nineties.  They love the fact that we are preoccupied with the middle east while they pull the puppet strings on Iran and N. Korea.
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I think our relationship with China is on even keel....but bordering on adversarial unfortunately.\n\nTheir military build up is on going and for what?  Who are they getting ready to fight?  Probably no one....but we are in debt to the Chinese in the billions of dollars.  Eventually we will have to concede that they are on our tier of dominance.\n\nI agree with a previous poster's analysis in that they will be the superpower on one....it may not be real soon, but it will be one day.\n\nThis is the thing.  Small thing.  All they have do is....drumroll please.........convert to some form of democracy.  That's all.  Nothing major.  They can do that in a few weeks.  \n\nSeriously.....Communism does not work.  And look at what America is trying to do.  Bush was over there wanting China is ease up on religious tolerance....along with a few other things.  But see....we don't really want them to have a democratic system....we want them to have widespread, capitalistic tendency.....democracy-styled freedoms.  There is a massive difference.\n\nWe don't want a mega copy of us.....we are Miller, or Budweiser.  We want them to be Zima.
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Why would it take another terrorist attack on our own soil to destroy us as a superpower?  I don't understand your reasoning.\nActually, since most of our manufacturing is now done in China, I think the big C is headed in that direction anyway.  I've always felt that China would one day be our biggest, greatest, strongest enemy.  (And you can bet your a** that the present f-ups in the Middle East have the Chinese people sitting back and chuckling; they won't even have to lift a hand to destroy the US.  We are doing that for them.  When we have nothing left here but the desperately poor and the outrageously rich--the rich will all fly off to "the islands", and China will put us all to work for them)  (At even lower "wages" than their people make.....)
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I'm a student of International Relations and Politics, and China definitely is a very active player on the International Arena. We have discussed this time after time.\n\nChina plays a growing role in Africa, not that Bush cares. China has very suspicious connections with Iran, and has the worlds largest population and one of the strongest economies around.\n\nShould the US care? I definitely think it should. Why? Because there hasn't really been a strong role player in the East, and the West has been dominated by the US and Europe. China can easily sway the rest of the third world, Islamic world and even South America to her side.\n\nLike I said, China is very influential in Africa, has shown sympathy towards Iran, and has a very strong economy.\n\nWith the end of the Cold War, there has never been a balance between superpowers (the French Minister of Foreign Affairs (I believe) actually labeled the US as a hyper-power), and to restore international balance an alliance of a few super, or great powers is needed. This balance might just be created by the wrong countries.\n\nDoes China pose a threat, with respects to Communism vs. Capitalism? I don't think so. China has never tried to sway other countries to communism, and is slowly adapting original Marxist ideals towards a sort of very open-minded communist ideology. Perhaps more in the line of Social Democracy.\n\nChina has been labeled the "sleeping Dragon" and I think this dragon has been waking for a very long time.\n\n"Entry into the superpower club?" She's already there.
78345
Sadly, there is a pretty good chance that there will be a WWIII.  If you haven't noticed yet, China is building up its military and investing heavily on technology, not for defense purposes in my opinion.  They're preparing for an invasion of Taiwan.  They have said numerous time that if Taiwan declares itself independent from China then it would attack the country of Taiwan.  They cannot attack now because they know if it attacks Taiwan, the U.S. will intervene on behalf of Taiwan.  China in return is preparing itself for a war with the U.S and Taiwan.
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I think it would depend if it was in the nations best interest to be involved or not.  If Iran is the issue, then yes i would believe it would be in their best interest to be involved.  North Korea?  Well that would remain to be seen.  They certainly have enough on their plate right now to deal with.  I know I certainly don't expect anything out of them other than to hope they can live their lives freely as they have chosen and not the terror that had been forced on them by a brutal dictator for the past 30+years.
18581
I think so.  China has a huge military.  But the US military is far more advanced.  Thats why the chinese military is striving to be like the US.  I think it would be nasty, violent, and numerous casualties, but the US would win in the end.
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Iraq under Saddam supported Hamas. He is no longer in Power. Iran brags that they support these groups. Syria keeps a low profile, but is Home to Hezbollah/ Hamas and backs whatever they do. Iran & Syria are your Front end supporters. On the Backend (aka.. countires that are quiet about supporting, but our Intelligence knows what's going on) I would have to list Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. The Sleeper countries the one's that may surprise you. China, Venzuala, Pakistan (I mention Pakistan here because right now there are so many CIA etc.. in that country they know they are walking on egg shells as far as supporting terrorist). \n\nOther countires might be a haven for terrorist, but I beleive they are too poor to really be a major factor in supporting them Like Sudan, Yeman,Somalia, Algeria.\n\nI could be Naive, but I don't think N. Korea has any part in this yet sector of violence yet. The only thing they have in common with the US. is they both hate usin one shape or form, but  N. Korea does want to talk with us. N. Korea is afraid of an USA attack, where terrorist are not in fact they are waging a war against us. N. Korea has a different religion beliefs. The N. Korea is poor in fact they get thier weapons from China and Russia. so I don't think as of yet they can do much good for the terrorist. Just hope they don't perfect the nuke which they could sell. Because they need the money and if they do. Expect an all out Nuke Blitz on them from the US if we are hit.  N. Korea would seize to exist.
1152302
That's a scary thought. I don't fear china, but it would be prudent to treat them with as much respect as possible. I believe it would be very costly in lives.
948724
No; we'd only get hit in return by China.  Instead, since China, Japan, Russia, and a couple of other nations have gotten involved in all this, I think it's best to let the powers in that part of the world have a turn at seeing if they can keep North Korea under control before we go storming in to do ANYTHING.
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They would, just to show how "strong they are".\n\nThey are being very obviously cocky recently, and frankly when you get like that, you can do very stupid things.\n\nAnd of course, if they do, North Korea is GONE.
781496
I believe they are behind much of it, yes. Usama Bin Laden made the statement years ago that the US does not have the stomach for this fight. If certain domestic factions have their way, he will be proven right.
830412
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.