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There’s worrying times ahead because we’re at the start of a new century. Just look at when the last world wars occurred in the previous century. A majority of the current ruling class in America and especially China are not scarred by big wars on the scale that we’re debating about in this thread. If any of this lot in power experienced the horrors of the previous world wars then they wouldn’t go ahead with a third world war.






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World War III was won the second the west went to China and asked for money to bail out the mess left by the bankers.






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If there is a war between the US and China it will be because the US starts it.

The Chinese have a different attitude to war than we do, their attitudes are still based on the classic text "The Art of War" which is thousands of years old and is still taught in mainstream universities in China today as a way of strategic thinking in life and business as well as war. The Chinese mentality is to never get involved in a war unless they are certain of the outcome and are certain that it will leave them better off than before. They would never have done what we did and gone into Afghanistan / Iraq and then found out we didn't have an exit strategy. China will want to build up its military power to maintain its own security (but that is also driven by security concerns of their neighbours like India, its not just a message against the West) but the Chinese would always rather keep their heads down and live peacefully with other countries rather than have to divert resources into fighting. They also know that Chinese development depends on their advantage in being able to export to their huge markets of the USA and Europe, and they cannot afford these markets to be damaged.

I expect there will be frosty relations between the US and China but I don't see China aggressively asserting itself militarily, China will however extend its influence over the world but this will be by increasingly owning more and more assets in foreign countries, but each time they increase their assets abroad they give themselves a disincentive to damage that country's economy.

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I expect there will be frosty relations between the US and China but I don't see China aggressively asserting itself militarily, China will however extend its influence over the world but this will be by increasingly owning more and more assets in foreign countries, but each time they increase their assets abroad they give themselves a disincentive to damage that country's economy.



Thats the main point right there.

Why would they want to destroy economies who owe them so much money and in doing so destroy their own economy and world status ?






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