PDA

View Full Version : China challenges US predominance in Asia-Pacific


Joe McCarthy
03-07-2011, 09:06 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110307/ap_on_re_us/us_us_china_military_rivalry
poiuytrewq0987
03-07-2011, 09:11 PM
China doesn't even have a navy so any idea of challenging US hegemony is laughable at best. It's like going up against the US without the IJN.
Joe McCarthy
03-07-2011, 09:21 PM
China doesn't even have a navy so any idea of challenging US hegemony is laughable at best. It's like going up against the US without the IJN.

They are doing the very thing Germany did in challenging the Royal Navy in the lead-up to the Great War - an emboldened naval buildup coupled with increasingly aggressive moves.
poiuytrewq0987
03-07-2011, 09:25 PM
They are doing the very thing Germany did in challenging the Royal Navy in the lead-up to the Great War - an emboldened naval buildup coupled with increasingly aggressive moves.

Except the Chinese navy will not get anywhere close to the number or quality of the Kriegsmarine.
Egbert
03-07-2011, 09:27 PM
China doesn't even have a navy so any idea of challenging US hegemony is laughable at best. It's like going up against the US without the IJN.

In fact, China does have a Navy and it's growing as we speak...more carriers, better missiles, better fast-attack craft, new bases, etc. Russia has spent the last decade helping to build it, in the hopes of getting China off of the back doorstep.
Joe McCarthy
03-07-2011, 09:29 PM
Except the Chinese navy will not get anywhere close to the number or quality of the Kriegsmarine.

And you base this on what exactly? Besides, the Kriegsmarine came along under Hitler.
poiuytrewq0987
03-07-2011, 09:32 PM
And you base this on what exactly? Besides, the Kriegsmarine came along under Hitler.

Even if they do, they'd be committing economic suicide by going to war with the US over Taiwan or whatever.
Joe McCarthy
03-07-2011, 09:40 PM
Even if they do, they'd be committing economic suicide by going to war with the US over Taiwan or whatever.

I'm happy to see them showing their true colors. They've been masquerading as a good neighbor, giving low cost loans during the economic downturn. Now they're scaring Vietnam and the Philippines.

To think, we'll have Vietnam as an ally now.

Thank you chinks.
poiuytrewq0987
03-08-2011, 02:05 AM
I'm happy to see them showing their true colors. They've been masquerading as a good neighbor, giving low cost loans during the economic downturn. Now they're scaring Vietnam and the Philippines.

To think, we'll have Vietnam as an ally now.

Thank you chinks.

The US hold all the cards not China. China is reliant on the US market for exports and if they go to war with us they'd be essentially crashing their export market and thus domestic unrest will surely emerge from such crash.