In message KiVYb.27758$Zt4.11905@okepread01, t_mark
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On Russia maybe, but fighting with China in the future is inevitable.

Hardly. China is dependent on the US, directly and indirectly, for the
majority of its annual growth and over 20% of its entire economy. That's
not going to change much in the future as the two become more and more
intertwined.

I'm minded of the confident predictions around the start of the 20th
Century, about how the Great Powers were now so intertwined by trade and
diplomacy that a major war was now unthinkable and impossible.

Whoops.

To even get into a position to battle America in Asia, much
less elsewhere, would require decades of spending the Chinese can't even
afford to build up to, and have no reason to. It won't be smooth sailing,
but China has vastly more reasons to remain friends if not allies with the
United States than to plunge itself back into the middle of last century and
ruin decades of economic building by trying to fight it.

True, but common sense can be remarkably elusive on occasion.



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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
W S Churchill

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