What do Americans have against the Chinese?
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I was not aware that Americans had anything against China except that it is communist. That is against their form of Government and not against the people.\n\nAs for me personally, I love the Chinese people and their food. Not just the Chinese but all Asians and oriental people. I always thought they are the most beautiful people in the world, with the Latins coming in second place as far as beauty.\n\nThey have a wonderful and very interesting history and culture.\n\nI am 54 years old and remember the cold war well. My parents fussed at me for liking the orientals because they developed a hatred for all Asians and Orientals during World War 2 .I refused to inherit their hatred and prejudice.\n\nDuring the Viet Nam War, I did not dodge the draft, but I did not join either. I tried to stay neutral as far as the war was concerned, but even during a time of War, I loved the Vietnamese people and culture. Like I said all Asians and orientals. \n\nChina has such rich history, I would love to visit there some day. My wife had a grand mother that visited there several times and had pictures of the Great Wall and pictures of rural China that most Americans never see. She had many wonderful stories to tell about the people of China and the customs and beliefs and culture.
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China is not Americas enemy, but its bastard offspring. It is a competitor, not an enemy. America made the rules on Global Capitalism, and cannot take the ball home now because some other team is winning. China will be more powerful than the USA. The USA is already letting it.\n\nUS Senator Bernie Saunders wrote a few years ago that Free Trade ( whatever that is supposed to be) meant that Americas biggest export was, JOBS. Every American firm now is under pressure to shut its plant in the US and reopen in China. It may make business sence for a few years, the company is richer, but soon the USA will be the shell of an empire, a crumbling has been. It is at that point that a country gets dangerous, open to extremists and open to warmongers. It is then that in some last didtch attemt to keep the US a world power they will create the situation that will cause a war. But remember China is no longer an ideolgical enemy, it is simply doing capitalism bigger stronger and harsher than the USA.\n\nIf trouble is to be averted western socities must realise that it is best to keep jobs at home, pay a bit more for products and not support Chinese sweatshops.\n\nAs for Islam, that is a religion, not an enemy and only extreme US rightwingers will make them an enemy. For years Islamic countries have been friends with the USA,  ie Saudi Arabia/ Kuwait/ Dubai etc because trade links and a love of money unites them.  Some regimes that are very oppressive the US is happy to trade with and sell arms to , occaisionally it falls out with them. I have though yet to see President Bush telling the Saudis to become democratatic, respect freedom, respect womens rights, respect tolerance etc. Why not! because the oil they have makes presidents soon forget the domestic policies of any country they are dealong with. Again, what should be done? Well how about an honest foreign policy based on mutual needs , co-operation and a movememnt towards democracy etc in all countries, not just the ones the US forces it on.
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Isral has a good army, but the chinese by far. Theyll line up against you give the 1st wave weapons the rest pick them up when the front gets shot. They are some crazy fighters.\n\nI tell you another, for their size. The Turks. They can be some bad asses and South Korea is getting right up there. I have seen piles of bodies in Nam where they went through and I swear half didn't have a wound on them. They knew karate as about the best I have ever seen, We don't have anything like it.\n\nAnd we didn't get beat in Vietnam. We won every major battle including TeT. It was the Us and their pantywaist presidents. We had them on their knees by our bombing and Nixon starts peace talks in Paris stopping the bombing. Don't blame us. Look at tricky Dicky or All those repubs that bought the Tonkin story.\n\nA few more years and Iraq will be the longest"Unofficially" of course, none war, though we are still getting over 100 KIA's a month.
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The Chinese are becoming a big threat to us militarily, economically and technoligically speaking. I just read in the news that the US Gov't gave the highest number of visas to China...Why? To get on their good side of course! The Chinese gov't has been building their military up big prompting the US to also spend more on defence. We are making new jet fighters and destroyers. Once again, we may find ourselves in an arms race like with Russia in the 80's.
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Why should it? I look at where things are made from before I buy them. Don't you? Its called free trade. What our country is based upon. America was built by the Chinese also, think about the first railroad system bringing on the industrial revolution. There is a lot more to America than you care to know. Which is very little. Many Germans fought FOR the US also as did many Chinese. Not all are as you say.\nYou are blinded by hate.
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No one right on its mind will use first Nukes.   You will be the paria of the whole world and loose all allies.   Nukes will be used when one party is completly lost.\nA ground war with China would look as the war in Russia.   Very long distance to conquer (even worse since you must bring everything by sea).\nAll Chinese have a minimum military training.   When fully mobilising they have more soldiers than the entire population of the US.\nIn Korea, Us had a lot of trouble with the Chinese which were badly underarmed.  The modern Chinese army has very good material and even more troops than in 1950.\nCarpet bombing has someone suggested : China is even larger than the US.   Do you think the Chinese army and factories will stay in the towns ?  Think again.\n\nSo how would look a war with China really ?\nSimply : a lot of naval raids on the Chinese coast, Taiwan taken by the Chinese after a heavy sea battle (with a lot of combats between Chinese airforce versus US navy carriers).\nAn invasion of China is very unlikely because no way you can stop the millions of Chinese (well trained and motivated).\nAt the other hand China can not do much to arm the US and will be cut off from the world for trade so no more export (and so no more currency coming in).\nChina will fall back on it own (like in 1960), the US will be seriously crippled after the first months of battle and can not affort to have a second front somewhere.\n\nAll depends what other countries will do especially Russia, India.\n\nConclusion : both countries have no interest to start a war with each other.   Military it would make the US vulnerable, China would loose a lot economical.
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It seems highly unlikley that the west will be ablew to keep a chockehold on the world forever, although it will be a while yet. Just look at 9/11, and how many westerners are killed in the middle east every day. A lot of people dislike america (and be "america" i mean the allies wholl do anything to keep on her good side cough britain cough) But im british, i live in ebgland, and my father nearly died when lodon was attcked in july. \n\nBut keeping on subject, I dont really understand why china is under such suspicion, they have made no aggresive military movments, no secret nuclear program, and have not yet been blamed for any attcks on america. Its yet another witch hunt, random peole were blamed for deaths of catlle in the 16th/ 17th century, communists blamed for various problems, and now no communist threat? What will do with all this money? Another threat needs to be created, and finally we have found a threat that will never ever leave. People who dislike us. I dont blame them.\n\nSo, no, it wont be a Communist China or a Muslim soceity that destrys us all, who do we have to blame for warmongering, and damging lives but ourselves?
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First off, it's "I wonder WHAT people think about chinese businesses."\n\nThats an easy one. In America, If you live in the mid west then they hate them because media tells them that cheap chinese labor prices kill american jobs. And??? ITS TRUE.\n\nBut they are mistaken that its just labor prices, part of it has to do with the fact that the state and federal government impose ridiculous environmental standards that manufacturing companies in the US have no way of complying with. For example in CA a manufacturing company that I know is closing down due to \n\n1. the fact that its 1000% cheaper to make the part overseas\n2. the government makes us do ridiculous things like, test rain water runoff from the roof??? how can small manufacturing business comply with things like this and still concentrate to make their businesses better.\n\nSo, its like a snake eating it's own head. And its not only china but many other countries as well. India is taking mid level call center jobs, programming tech, Japan the auto industry.\n\nBut hey, at least we have the largest military and we can take over any other countries resources we want.\n\nThings will never stop changing though, look at whats happened in the last 100 years.\n\nThe Roman empire thought they would never disappear, but they were the largest and greatest empire of their time. Now people ask Romans? whats a Roman?
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The Chinese. The Koreans hate us.
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U.S.A.and new contender, China
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Nope, America won't tackle North Korea because they're scared of China and Russia.  I think either or both of those two countries will get involved if the USA decided to attack North Korea.\n\nWhose not scared of China?  They're going to be the biggest economy in the world soon!  And they've alway had a huge army.\n\nThen if you did attack North Korea and did win, whose saying you won't make a mistake like you did with Iraq and Afganistan, putting a government in place which is just as bad or worse than the previous communist government.  People have very short memories!  You have to remember that the US put Sadam and the Taliban in power in Iraq and Afganistan.  The only reason you knew that Sadam had weapons of mass destruction is because you gave them to him to use against Iran.  Why can't you just let countries sort their own problems out?  Or if your going to police the world, why don't you help sort out some of the African countries that need your help?\n\nAnyway, America doesn't play big brother, they play little brother with all the hi-tech toys, wanting to be like one of their big brothers (i.e. France, Spain and Britain).\n\nAnd before anyone says, I'm not anti-america, I thought Bill Clinton was a superb president, but he was partly educated in England!
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America made in China!
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China..War isn't just who'se got more tanks and more missiles.\nThe chinease people are more cultured and better educated and the average chinease citizen knows far more about the outside world than the average American, they are not apt ot belive in such fairy tales like those that fill the amrican media about other nations and therefore they are less apt to getshoked when facing the real world in a real world.\nBesides, the educational system in china is better, and is not weakened by a weird control of regressive religious thought as the case with america andtherefore the chinease aremore innovative and can produce better research, which helps in modernizing weapons.\nThe chinease production is the highest in the world(500 major industrial cities!)and their rate of development is staggering(from 10-16% yearly!) They can afford a long war(and it has to be loong causeyou just can`t destroy the whole of china by a sudden nuclear strike, not unless you wish to commit suicide!)\nIn short China have wisdom, innovation and culture + a very modern army+ 1.3 billion citizens, most of them youth who are able to serve and ell trained for fighting.\nLets hope such war will never happen.\n\nAnd again it isn`t amatter of who spends more. USA is having a major problem in Iraq despite being a million times richer! And USA will not dare attack Iran despite having a far superior army, war isnt that simple, it isn`t a fight in a bar:)
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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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They only want it democratic which it will never be, so they can run the oil refineries cause they are afraid of China.\nPussy boys better lighten up and get a clue,  China is actually a pretty decent culture and they have respect unlike racist Americans.\nSo==you do know that usa is building a pipline so oil can be pumped from Afganistan and Iraq into Israel who is gonna share with their baby sister USA and momma Britian.\nSupposedly, but the kiss of betrayel is not a good one.
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Just because you have taken the time to get to know the United States doesn't mean you should expect Americans to know China.  Also, speaking as an American, most Americans don't know 40% of Detroit is black etc. \n\nP.S. I actually like a lot of things in Chinese culture, didn't you know one of my actors is Chinese? Tony Leung Chiu Wai, the guy in all the Wong Kar Wai films.
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Well, for one thing, China will be another superpower to contend with.  They have lots of people all of the same sense of nationality and patriotism; they have tons of money and they develop their own arms and nuclear weapons.  They should really be taken seriously.\n\nOh yeah, and they've established bases all around the world.  Isn't there a Chinatown in your state?