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I don't know if it is true or not but I have been watching some video's and reading some articles about China considering using bio-weapons (ak. the "...

I think I more or less agree with your statement. When one is a superpower it is almost always a hard time to keep one's manufacturing sector, infrast...

I'm sorry to everyone that has posted and I haven't gotten to reply to yet. I have been dealing with a UTI infection and because of it haven't been fe...

Can you be so kind as to give me a link/point out which post you are referring to? I have looked at all your posts in this thread and all I can see in...

Yeah, this problem goes all the way back to the Cold War where the US government always had the issue of whether it was better to invest in either but...

Excellent post! :D I more or less agree with everything you said and applaud the fact you also pointed out some of the issues I haven't gotten around ...

I could be wrong but your views are not all that different than some of those in Britain who wanted to avoid another war with Germany before World War...

When I said I disagree with your disagreement I was kind of just trying to be cute. I could be wrong but certain amount of fear is warranted in the ca...

I guess you forgot about the fact that China is threating military action against Taiwan if Taiwan doesn't surrender to China in the near future. Also...

I disagree with your disagreement. We still live in a world where might almost makes right and that has not changed since either the end of World War ...

Well the real lie in many of our wars that it was really about certain rich men becoming richer at the expense of those that fought and suffer during ...

When I was young and before the Cold War ended, I use to think that in some way the USSR kept the US in check and the US kept the USSR in check. And w...

Do you have doubts that China if given the opportunity wouldn't use any military advantage it has to become the most influential super power in the As...

Yeah, I've hear about this before where China is trying to use IT technology to turn their cities into police states instead of using it to try and ma...

The US may not be the nicest superpower to ever exist, but I would have to agree with other forum members that it is better for a world to be protecte...

I more or less agree with your post, while China wants to take over Taiwan it is unlikely for them to do so with military action and if they DO take m...

I just got an interesting insight into this issue, someone pointed out to me that Xi Jinping is 68 years old and it is possible he may want to create ...

I'm not too sure that either international law and international organizations will be able to do much in preventing a war with China or at least any ...

After watching the following video I'm under the impression that living in any place that is under control of Chinese Communist Party would be really ...

If they decided to start shooting down satellites, I think that the US wouldn't take that very lightly and we would do everything in our power to send...

Thanks! :D I just hope that it isn't that far off from what is currently going on. I agree. I believe if the US doesn't either bow down nor poke the p...

Nuclear warheads and other NBC type weapons are really only useful as a deterrent to preventing another country from trying to invade you since you co...

What you say is true, but only IF both sides have more to lose (or at least think they do) if they decide to resolve their differences through conflic...

I think the more accurate way to put it is that with NBC type weapons the level of collateral damage becomes so high that it becomes difficult to just...

I could be wrong but I imagine neither China nor the US want to resort to NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) type weapons even if China tries to inva...

Exactly! China use to be happy just in controlling it's borders and maintaining it's status quo in the world but now it changing it's stance to one of...

I don't think one can use basic statistics in determining whether China will be willing to go to war in order to get control over Taiwan since there a...

Here are two YouTube that I believe shed some light on this discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I0nTTfzHWo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt...

Part of the problem with nukes is since they are a weapon of last resort (by those that are sane at least), countries that have them (and have other c...

I didn't agree with Trump and the republicans on many things when he was in office, but I agreed on their stance that they can't be soft on China abou...

The EU politically more divided then well more than any place else in the world with each country only interested in what is in it for them if they ar...

China has flat out state that the WILL start a war with Taiwan and any country helping them if either A) Taiwan tries to declare itself an independent...

The US has basically told Taiwan that we will not protect them if they try to provoke a war with China (which is very unlikely that they would want to...

It isn't just about what one country HAS DONE in the past it is as important or even more important as to WHAT THEY CAN AND WILL DO if there is little...

There is saying I once hear that goes along the lines "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". Is the US an aggressor, horrible even to...

I concluded that something is going to happen, with the least of these being a sort of cold war between the two. At the very least China is going to k...

It isn't a matter of if you agree with the "Hitler doctrine" but it is a matter of IF the US military industrial complex believes and follows it. You ...

That didn't stop the US and former USSR from doing what they did during the cold war. If one has one of the most powerful militaries in the world, isn...

The same could be said about the US and the former USSR during the Cold war when both sides where were ready to use nukes (or at least more ready to u...

I was about to say the same thing but I was thinking of building a space-elevator since sending anything into space with today's technology is both ve...

I'm not really sure what you mean by this, but I think it is likely I agree with it. :) I don't think it is a given that all these wars we have been f...

That might be a reason for China to give pause for starting conflict but I'm unsure what kind of issue that would cause for the US. If someone invest ...

There may not be a "hot" conflict, but it is almost given there is going to be a kind of new "Cold war" between the US and China. And yes as I explain...

Would you mind explaining your reasoning for this since it is obvious that China seeks to expand it's economic and military power and the US instead w...

In many ways I agree with you and believe that the US shouldn't be so willing to go to war with any country just because we can and that we should try...

Actually we really have just one party in the US and that is the party for cronyism/plutocracy - those that have influence and power watching over for...

An easy answer to to that is to point out that "philosophy" is really just an aspect of critical thinking and for one to ask themselves is it worth it...

I apologize since you are right and I started writing my post before I bothered to read your later posts. In my defense all I can say is that there is...

I'm not sure if that quote is directed to us as human beings individually or the human race as a whole. What if humans through either evolution and/or...

I agree with you that the distribution of wealth is a big problem in our modern time, but you should realize that in almost of human history it has al...