Are we preparing to invade China so we don't have to pay our national debt to them.?
366405
The Sino-American War will happen in the next 20 years. It will involve nuclear weapons. Invading China isn't feasible.  That's also a bad battle plan, because the longer we wait, the stronger China gets.
580212
China is already a major threat to the US. Our economies are so tightly linked that China could take us down any time they want. The problem for them is that it would destroy their economy also. Then the question becomes, do they care about their economy or their people? It's the MAD doctrine all over again, but waged through economics instead of nuclear weapons.
37752
I think through time, moving to the Euro is a possibility. It may be an ego blow to red blooded Americans, but not particularly damaging to the economy.\n\nWith regard to invade, I not sure that is a practical necessity, more likely they will attempt to destroy facilities perceived to be active in nuclear work, while applying external pressure through sanctions.
49024
Well, I don't know everything but here are some things ...\n\n1. They are building a new city the size of Philadelphia (1 million people) every month.  The Chinese economy is BOOMING.\n2. They can make furniture of same quality as Broyhill, and sell this furniture to Broyhill for the price Broyhill pays for just the wood in the US (The point is that China can make and export almost everything we make, for a tiny fraction of what it cost to make it in the US).\n3. Chinese national pride is HUGE, and so Chinese do not like to buy American.  But, Americans love to buy Chinese (Almost, everything you see in Walmart is Chinese.)\n4. China's military is getting ready to take back Taiwan (they have a HUGE military build up working in that direction).\n5. China's military is recruiting engineers at a very rapid rate.  Soon, they will have a VERY advanced military.\n6. China is making some strong treaties with Russia.\n7. China announced a few months ago that they are launching 300 satelites "to watch their people".  You don't need 300 satelites for a country that size.  300 satelites are enough to watch the whole world.\n\nSo, to summarize . . . The US has become the middle man of the world economy, and China is the manufacturing center.  If the world decides to cut us out and buy Chinese at the same time the world decides that the US should pay $10 or $20 per gallon for gas (which may happen), then China becomes the new World Power and the US becomes a third world country full of starving people (of course, WWIII might come first).\n\nPray that our next president is a great diplomat and not a John Wayne want-a-bee.
455852
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.
89253
besides putting our wallets further into the red, I am not sure. It doesnt sound like its going to be something the "average joe" is going to be able to do... its going to be for the wealthy to find a way to take it off as a tax write off.
532716
The Chinese army depends on your walmart dollars. We buy their stuff and they build missiles aimed at us.
880591
The tours given the Chinese (or any other FNs -- "Foreign Nationals" in military-speak) are carefully controlled-- they don't see anything we don't want them to see.  If they showed us obsolete equipment, the message they're sending is "we're weak"... but we know that it isn't true.  If we show them more modern equipment (but still not classified), then we're showing them "we're strong"... and they know it IS true.\n\nIn terms of equipment, weapons, etc., we are far ahead of the Chinese.  However, in a land war the Chinese are pretty much unbeatable... think about their population.  If we killed 1000 Chinese for every American lost, they'd still have a large Army after we were all dead and gone.  \n\nSo the Chinese know that we've got much stronger weaponry, and don't mess with us militarily (note that Taiwan is still 'independent'!), and we know that in a war of attrition the only way the Chinese will lose is we've already long since lost, and it's the end of the world... And so we don't fight each other militarily.\n\nRegarding trade, I suspect the Chinese say that if the Americans are dumb enough to keep lowering taxes and increasing their national debt, they'll keep buying up that debt... if they decided to call in their notes, just from the last six years since the balanced budget was turned into a massive deficit, the US would be officially bankrupted.  The Chinese don't want that, because we're a great market.\n\nSo peace is maintained, almost despite ourselves!
656796
It's pretty simple. If China calls in its markers, the US will have a third world economy almost overnight. We have sold our national soul to buy cheap crap at Wal-Mart that we don't really need, but love because it's cheap. Sure, there's a savings in the short term, but at what greater cost? The US is effectively a socialite debutante, loaded with plastic surgery, dressed in the best, eating the finest in the swankiest locales, all paid for with Daddy's extremely overextended credit card. We have lots of style, but very little substance. Until we learn to put off our impulse towards instant gratification, we are at grave risk of being dumped in the poor house at a moment's notice. Our economy is functioning right now courtesy of Asian development, nothing more.
181153
It does not matter if the debt is 90 Trillion of dollars.\n\nWhat are the Japanese, Germans and Chinese going to do if the United States of America Goverment does not pay them?\n\nInvade the United States of America?
685012
They're smart. They don't want to spend the huge amounts of money it would take.  They are protected by treaties, any nuclear attack on Australia would bring retaliation from the U.K. and the U.S.
340857
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.
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I agree with you. We and the entire world should free China. However, it is not that simple.\n\nFor starters China is one of the world's five big military powers.(The other four are the U.S.A., Russia, France,and the U.K..)It has nuclear weapons that can easily reach any part of Europe or North America. To go to war with Comunist China would mean that we whould have to go into a nuclear war that would destroy thChinese Even if we where able to keep the war conventional, and were not going to be able, the Chinesee have one of the worlds largest armies. Even if we drafted every one in America, we still could not match them on a one to one basis. \n\nThe other reason why we can't bring democracy to China is that it would not allow American companies to get away with the kind of stuff they are getting away with. I hate to say it, but when it comes to scrubles vs. money-we Americans always choose money!\n\nAre best hope is that outside influences motivates the Chineese people into taking action and overthrowing it's government.
304487
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.
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Well I will be doing the most American thing I can think of, supporting the Chinese economy and buying $100 dollars of Chinese made fireworks.\n\n\nYou don't have anything to worry about, they will never take our guns away from us.
862898
The debt and deficit have no peer in the problem of economic waste. There is a contant danger of increasing interest rates ballooning the payments and every dollar is a loan from other countries who could stop lending us money and squeeze our economy. The Chinese are very aware of our deficit problem, and no one wants to address the problem. They own 40 percent of our debt and they are flooding our markets with Walmart goods. They are also attempting to capture the oil markets we depend on, this is a tragedy waiting to happen. We are not supporting our education system to compete with other countries who are producing a superior work force. The engineering crisis is untenable, India is producing most of our engineers and taking American jobs. You can not compete in the global economy without a superior educational system. Economic collapse is what killed the Soviet Union and we are following their example.
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Large standing armies,in the case of Kim ill.He would probably fold if we launched on him though.Until we can get our missile defense up a little better it is just too much of a risk to take.Besides as long as we can buy him cheaper than we can fight him we are better off.\nIn the case of China I think we are probably using the best possible strategy.Turn their economy toward capitalism and away from communism and we might wind up with one of the strongest allies we have ever had.\nThe sad part is none of this stuff works in the Mid-East.They have a different kind of mentality,like kamikazes.They value power and clever deceit,and if you have no will to use force they will never respect you.That's why they call us the paper tiger.