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Originally Posted by Kapitan

Not quite even if it went nuclear the consequences for China would be horrendous.

Any person who says just nuke them or they have nuclear weapons really cant hold any argument to counter the original point.

Is nuclear war likely ? nope not a chance even if a large war was to happen the rational of people would realize that your destroying your customer base because even after war victor or not you still need to trade to survive.

And currently China is America's best customer for buying its debt.

There are other ways.

Yes there are other ways, which is one of the reasons we strive towards a global economy to reduce the chances of war. However if someone actually went about to sink one of our carriers rationality and reason I think would fly right out the window. Other nations are watching us and would gauge their future actions based on our present response. Therefore I think China would pay a very terrible price for such an overt act of war. Only in the aftermath is anyone going to start talking about cheap labor and I-Phones again.