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What Do the Chinese Know That We Don't ?

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  • WhiteHorse
    WhiteHorse Posts: 2,492 Forumite
    edited 12 February 2011 at 8:39PM
    Reaper wrote: »
    I suggest you start by checking your info as I suspect some has not come from objective sources.
    US sources, actually. Some military, some not. All were quoted in the mainstream US press.
    For example the US is not going in to Chinese waters or airspace to provoke them, what would they have to gain?
    If you think war inevitable, and that you might win it now, but certainly won't win it later, you start it as soon as possible.

    That's realpolitik. It's also the lesson of history.
    You must have been reading Chinese propoganda about the Yellow Seas exercises.
    Nope.
    "Never underestimate the mindless force of a government bureaucracy
    seeking to expand its power, dominion and budget"
    Jay Stanley, American Civil Liberties Union.
  • WhiteHorse
    WhiteHorse Posts: 2,492 Forumite
    Whitehorse, that sounds like any old hogwash you read on a conspiracy website with no references or anything.
    All mainstream US sources. Monitor the press, there will be more.
    "Never underestimate the mindless force of a government bureaucracy
    seeking to expand its power, dominion and budget"
    Jay Stanley, American Civil Liberties Union.
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