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Originally Posted by RocHard
Give this one some thought.
In a war between China and the US, well, it would be damn close. In a simple war I'd bet my next paycheck on China.
However:
All the US needs to do is send the 7th fleet and park it directly between China and Taiwan. That always shuts them up. Why? The moment we go to war China shuts down. The US and Europe will no longer buy any of their products. Unemployment would soar, their countrymen will starve, and China will be spending more time feeding and taking care of their own than anything else.
Special thanks to Europe for selling China all of those nifty wepons they've been sending over there.
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I think international commerce is a lot more complicated than that nowadays. There are a ton of things produced in China that other countries don't or cannot produce internally that are needed to keep their economy's going. Even in the US they could never get economic sanctions passed against China or keep them out of the major int'l trade associations for being bad guys. Hell, even the UN was making money with Saddam's oil when there were supposed to be strict sanctions.