http://news.yahoo.com/digging-china-nuclear-tunnels-013008319.html
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Dec. 1, 2011 6:47 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork
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Dec. 1, 2011 6:54 a.m. Twin_Cam SuperDork
Why would they bomb their largest foreign customer base? Doesn't make any sense. Unless we all stop shopping at Walmart it is economically retarded for them to launch missiles at us. Oh, and there's the 'earthquakes destroying their tunnels all the time' thing to consider. Apparently prevailing wisdom in China is that tunnels in a seismically-active area are totally safe, just like lead in kids toys and poison in pet food.
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Dec. 1, 2011 6:55 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork
Makes sense.
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Dec. 1, 2011 9:37 a.m. Trans_Maro Dork
Twin_Cam wrote:
Why would they bomb their largest foreign customer base?
People who eat chicken feet are crazy enough to do anything.
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Dec. 1, 2011 9:53 a.m. Otto Maddox Dork
Man, this really gives me the creeps.
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Dec. 1, 2011 10:05 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork
chicken feet can't be any worse than wings...
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Dec. 1, 2011 10:08 a.m. Otto Maddox Dork
In reply to mad_machine:
I try to avoid bones, skin, cartilage, all of that crap in my food.
But to stay on topic, the Chinese make me a little nervous just because there are tons of them and I can't quite figure out what kind of ultimate goals they have as a country.
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Dec. 1, 2011 10:09 a.m. 02Pilot Reader
Twin_Cam wrote:
Why would they bomb their largest foreign customer base? Doesn't make any sense. Unless we all stop shopping at Walmart it is economically retarded for them to launch missiles at us.
Why would Wilhemine Germany provoke the antagonism of Great Britain, the world's greatest naval power of the era, by developing a major blue-water navy, at a time when its economic growth and security were increasingly tied to overseas exports of industrial products and imports of the raw materials needed to manufacture them?
Not to say that the circumstances are identical, but simply that what seems obvious and rational is not always viewed similarly on the other side.
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Dec. 1, 2011 11:30 a.m. cwh SuperDork
War is never a rational thing, but armed robbery writ large.
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Dec. 1, 2011 1:07 p.m. 02Pilot Reader
cwh wrote:
War is never a rational thing, but armed robbery writ large.
Offensive war for territorial gain, perhaps, but there have been quite a few wars that don't fit that model, many of them quite rational for at least some of the participant decision-makers.
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Dec. 1, 2011 9:07 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork
Having almost married a girl from mainland china.. I kinda have a grasp on some parts of their culture. I honestly do not worry about them.. right now.
The chinese culture praises stability. They do not like turmoil and rapid change. So as long as the current leaders are in place.. all should be well.
The problem arises when the Maoists lose the mandate from heaven and get overthrown. They are like any other Dynasty, their days were numbered as soon as they came to power.
And yes.. I consider Communist rule in china as just another Dynasty.
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Dec. 1, 2011 10:53 p.m. Trans_Maro Dork
At least the nuclear weapons will have Chinese-built guidance systems.
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Dec. 2, 2011 12:32 a.m. drsmooth New Reader
Recently I posted a similar thread on the Snow Journal Message Board. Snow Journal
Read the whole thread and the links. we should be afraid.
An excerpt from my Snow Journal post.
China, has almost 1.5billion people. That is with their 1 child per couple policy.
If they convince 10% of 1.5billion to rise up against the rest of the world.....
The whole world should be worried..
For the record 10% of 1.5 billion is this
10% of 1.5 billion = 150 000 000
One Hundred Fifty Million potential military personnel........... Wrap your head around that...
After all that I said there is still a small matter of the foreign aid still being paid to China............. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501707_162-57324812/lawmakers-scrutinize-us-foreign-ai...
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Dec. 2, 2011 5:41 a.m. Kram New Reader
drsmooth wrote:
Read the whole thread and the links. we should be afraid.
China, has almost 1.5billion people. That is with their 1 child per couple policy.
China isn't interested nor is it the country to aim 1960's propoganda nonsense at anymore.
People here are too busy enjoying all the fruits of rampant capitalism such as new houses, cars, holidays, living life well and investing in, ironically, America to actually give a E36 M3 about being involved in any conflict.
Unfortunately I read the same stupid parallel minority articles here about America as you do about China - I laugh at them too as I laugh at your linked article.
The birth rate in China is around 1.4 children per couple, comparable to some Western countries.
Relax, have a beer and worry about where the real threats exist.
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Dec. 2, 2011 5:50 a.m. Kram New Reader
drsmooth wrote:
After all that I said there is still a small matter of the foreign aid still being paid to China............. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501707_162-57324812/lawmakers-scrutinize-us-foreign-ai...
I would be surprised at anyone not understanding how miniscule an amount of $4 million is within the scale of trade economics that range in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Would you like to know how much China gives out in foreign aid presently?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/apr/28/china-foreign-aid-policy-...
Hope that helps.
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Dec. 2, 2011 6:29 a.m. Twin_Cam SuperDork
Trans_Maro wrote:
At least the nuclear weapons will have Chinese-built guidance systems.
Ha! There's that to consider, too. Their nukes will be like North Korea's...they'll take off, fly 1000 feet and crash.
