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Old 01-30-2005, 02:43 PM  
warlock5
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Originally Posted by KRL
China could end up being a key cause of WWIII.
Quite true, there are two ways to look at it.

#1 Free trade empowers China and thus they could end up with the world's most powerful military.

or

#2 Free trade is the greatest deterant of war. (Bad economy = breeding ground for war, just look at Germany before the rise of Hitler.)

For situations like this there is no easy answer. Is World War III inevitable... perhaps.
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