Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe warned that a direct war between the United States
and China “would bring disaster to both countries and the world,” but
warned China might have no choice if the US attempts to split them
permanently from Taiwan.
China considers Taiwan part of its territory, and historically this has
swung both ways. After the Chinese Civil War, both the Taiwan government
and the Beijing government claimed to be rightful rulers of all of
China. China has avoided forcibly reunifying with the island, but has
also warned Taiwan against presenting itself as an independent nation.
Chinese officials are warning that the US is threatening regional stability,
both with its actions toward Taiwan, and with continued US naval
actions near Chinese-claimed islands in the South China Sea. The US does
not recognize Chinese claims to those islands, and generally doesn’t
even consider them islands.
Despite mounting tensions both on strategic interests and the Trump
Administration’s trade war, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan
says the US won’t “tiptoe” around China on these issues, accusing China of threatening the international order.
“international order” = the US being the one and only boss in the world, telling every other nation to do what we would never do.
I recommend the reading of “Asia Times” because it prints significant facts on China which both our administration and the MSM do not publish. Here are a few which I was unaware of. The East Asian market which includes China is absolutely critical for US chip makers. Trump’s trade war with China, if enacted, may seriously harm our chip making companies. Next: only 5% of China’s manufacturing is sold in the US. Next: China is seriously continuing the modernizing of its means of transportation of bulk goods from road to rail which is more efficient. That is the cause for the drop of use of diesel oil and not a downturn in the Chinese economy as our administration wrongly claims as evidence that its China policies are working.
A recurrent theme in the analyses published in Asia Times is that the notion that China will lose a trade war is utter nonsense. Such a trade war is likely to result in a world-wide recession if not depression which will hurt us more than China.
The Asian Times’ analyses state that our economic measures are a blind man’s dangerous bluff. Dangerous for the entire world.
There is no reason to believe that the Asia Times is a mouthpiece of our Democratic Party.
Yup, atol.com is interesting reading. I visit that site from time to time.
The Chip making fabs are not in China. That takes 2 seconds to look up, South Korea isn’t going to stop fabricating chips because we stop buying junk from China, most of Intels fabs are in the US as well. Also, China forces poor partnerships and tech transfers, which is why most fabricators won’t go near China. Yes, a trade war could cause a recession, but ignoring domestic inflation and trying to cover it by buying goods from slave labor countries isn’t exactly making the world a wonderland of unicorns and rainbows either. You know China is using those US bonds from the trade imbalance to build bases in the South China Sea, to build Nuke Subs, trying to replicate carriers, inventing hyper-sonic missiles, suppressing millions of ethnic minorities in their country, and many other despicable things, I would think someone that is on an Antiwar site would see that as a negative impact. According to you though, if the tyrants keep the trains running on time, we should fork over our cash to keep it going, eh comrade?
That’s an easy fix — if you don’t want to buy stuff from China, don’t buy stuff from China.
Anyone who tries to tell me that I’m not ALLOWED to buy stuff from China is going to be invited to engage in unlikely self-referential sexual acts.
Fortunately, the Chinese are pretty smart about getting their cheap goods to me. All of my packages that used to arrive from China before the postal treaty change are now arriving from Vietnam instead.
“Anyone who tries to tell me that I’m not ALLOWED to buy stuff from China is going to be invited to engage in unlikely self-referential sexual acts.”
I just fell off my chair laughing 🙂
Please be more careful when trying to be humorous, less humorous at heart might sue for GBH.
Thank you with all my heart or whatever is left of it anyway.
Cheers.
I’m here all week. Don’t forget to tip your waitress.
I will tip ANYBODY you think I think i should and THEN I will shoot myself (not very likely) ..
A trade war really isn’t necessary. The US has but to undo the unconstitutional Trade Agreements Act, return to Congress setting flat tariffs on all foreign goods.
It fixes everything and avoids war, trade war, etc.
Here is the problem with a shooting war with China. The US will have to hit the China mainland to protect ships and instillations etc, China will retaliate, no doubt about it and Nukes will probably be used. The stupid fools in the White House and Pentagon are gambling with the future of civilization and our only hope is that our so called enemies are far wiser then those insane individuals in the US government that think they can out bluff and win a war with China. No one wins that war
I wholeheartedly agree. There’s no way the US could defeat China in a war .. The US would have to hit the Chinese mainland to protect ships, installations, etc. Good luck with that.
As you rightly said, the stupid fools in the White House and Pentagon are gambling with the future of civilization, and our only hope is that our so-called enemies are far wiser than those lunatic individuals in the US govt that think they can out-bluff and win a war with China. Nobody wins that war.
Really, where is the former scourge of the world, the Soviet Union?
I remember something happened to them, what was that? What was the root cause of that victory, eh? You obviously are clueless.
I know it’s asking a lot but try reading some books about actual history instead of getting your “facts” from John Bolton and Marco Rubio.
China isn’t the Soviet Union. China has more people, more resources, and is better situated.
Winning shouldn’t be the goal. Furthering US interests should be the goal. The two aren’t the same. The US should simply raise tariffs and leave China alone.
Nukes will be used because it will be use ’em or lose ’em.
*Relocates to Pitcairn Island to avoid nuclear destruction.*