| What do you think of "China Threat Theory"? | |
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| Aug 30, 2007 02:05 | #11   |
 | Dodger, " Maybe, trade is an impotant factor for coexisting, but probably not as important as the "key" for everyone to coexist." You and me are coexisting, aren't we? Are we trading? Haha, kidding. I think the mutual trust and tolerance are very important for coexistence. |
| Aug 30, 2007 06:54 | #12 |
| Leonardo, we are in fact trading... trading on idears and opinions. Trading or doing a deal is a win win outcome and must be with mutual trust?? Otherwise there is no deal? But I am more than happy to live with anone who is happy to coexist with me who holds the same values. Dodger. |
| Sep 2, 2007 22:08 | #13 |
| Do you two hold diverted dissent? I feel you two hold the same value that you can coexist but divert on the terms of the prerequisite for coexistence. I agree with Doddger, we are trading our ideas and opinions here. |
| Sep 2, 2007 23:16 | #14 |
| Hear too many threats, ecnomic threat, food safety threat.... Is China so fearful? Perhaps, these nations who hold such views are not confident about themselves. What they should do is not to spread such threat theory. To strengthen their development is the key. |
| Aug 3, 2008 20:47 | #15 |
| GUESTPANDA | USA has been trying his best to contain the rising China. The western imperialists hate China because they envy China's growth. |
| Aug 4, 2008 11:30 | #16 |
| Wasn't there a best selling book in China titled "The coming War with America" or something like that? It was written by a Chinese, not an American. All I have seen here in the U.S. have been articles about economic issues and China's unpredictable leadership. We all know that China has been improving and strengthening its Military and increasing its intelligence gathering activities. These make China's neighbors nervous. I have never seen any articles regarding China being a military threat to the U.S. (except in computer hacking). The things that get the American people's attention, and thereby the American politicians attention, would be the Chinese investment in U.S. companies and facilities and the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to Chinese factories. As salaries rise in China and workers get paid better, manufacturing will move to other regions with cheaper labor ( maybe Africa?) As for now, China and America are trade partners with good relations. No one I know wants trouble. |
| Aug 14, 2008 03:53 | #17 |
| I have heard so many times the comment made earlier in the thread that the Chinese people are peace loving and China wants a harmonious relationship with the rest of the world. Of course it says that, what else could it say? But if we look at history and politics we must expect China to behave somewhat like the US has done in recent years, the USSR in its area of influence, the British before that and so on. When leaders have power they use it - this is the hard reality. Of course, increased globalisation or interdependence of trade will inhibit some of the possible excesses, but that is all. |
| Dec 7, 2008 21:30 | #18 |
| The election campaign has concluded. Look at the senior appointment made by Obama, especially the appointment of Hilary Clinton as the Secretary of State shows the general attitude of U.S foreign policy on China. It will be much the same as that in Clinton Administration. |
| Dec 9, 2008 00:27 | #19 |
| The China Threat Theory is alive and well in the US. To my dismay, I just finished veiwing a popular, albeit heavily Democratically skewed, television show called Boston Legal where a Chinese multi-national business acquired the law firm which the show is centered around. The leading charaters fought against the take over and cited China's human rights violations, investments in brutal and hostile African governments for oil consessions, and of course the centralized political system which is so contrary to ours. Truthfully, I was embarassed and somewhat appaulled, but this is the liberal media at work which, in my opinion, pulled out all the stops to get Obama elected. But at the end, the Chinese company won and Craine, Poole, and Smidt is now known as Chang, Poole, and Smidt. I guess the moral of the story is that no matter who is in the number one slot, they will fear the new kid on the block who shows promise and try to discredit or discount them any way they can. But in the end, the transition is enevitable. |
| Dec 22, 2008 01:24 | #20 |
| GUESTWHAT | TOKYO (AFP) - - Japan asked the United States in 1965 to be ready to attack China with nuclear weapons if the two Asian powers went to war, newly declassified documents said Monday. Japan, the only nation to have suffered atomic attack, has long campaigned to abolish nuclear weapons -- principles that led former prime minister Eisaku Sato to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974. But the foreign ministry declassified documents showing Sato sought a US nuclear strike on China in the event of a war between the two countries. According to the diplomatic papers, Sato told then US defence secretary Robert McNamara at a 1965 meeting in Washington: "We expect the United States to retaliate immediately using nuclear weapons" in a war. McNamara, best known as an architect of the Vietnam War, was quoted as replying only that the United States had the technical capability to deploy nuclear weapons overseas. Sato also said that he would let the United States use Japanese waters, although not its territory, to transport nuclear weapons in the event of a war between Japan and China. China, then a year away from launching its "Cultural Revolution," was a major cause of concern in the 1960s for World War II rival Japan. Neither Japan or the United States had diplomatic ties with communist China until the 1970s. Asked Monday about Sato's remarks, Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura, the Japanese government's spokesman, defended the then premier by noting that China had just carried out nuclear tests. "We can reach a conclusion that no nuclear weapons have been brought to Japan," Kawamura, a member of Sato's long-dominant Liberal Democratic Party, told a news conference. Sato's three-point non-nuclear policy -- that Japan will not produce, possess or allow the entry of nuclear weapons -- is "determined and steadfast," Kawamura said. "Washington has understood this," he said. Sato led Japan from 1964 to 1972, making him the country's longest-serving prime minister. The United States dropped atom bombs in 1945 on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 210,000 people. But the United States is now the main ally of officially pacifist Japan and stations more than 40,000 troops on its soil. |
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