I think the complaining really stems from a since of paranoia, the idealogy is so different... I still remember the Beijing (sp?) massacre where in the face of a peaceful protest the military opened up automatic machine gun fire on crowds of teenagers... with military grade hollow-point bullets even. That "I exist to serve the collective" ideology is like the RL Star Trek Borg.... and with the individualist ideology here in American we're bound to always have a baseline of suspicion/chargin...
So we cover up our suspicious with complaining and protest.
Some think that China will eventually have democratic elections... but the last attempt (a couple of years ago) was denied... if/when it happens it won't be anytime soon.
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Originally Posted by Henson
I sort of agree with the idea that the US and China won't fight, for a couple of reasons. Chief among them is, there's not any good reason to. Yeah, yeah, Taiwan, I know....but no one ever accused the Chinese of being stupid.
What the Chinese are aiming at is exactly what the US has enjoyed in the western hemisphere since the advent of the Monroe Doctrine: regional hegemony. They're telling other imperialist nations to stay out of their backyard, just like the US tells nations to stay out of the western hemisphere. As long as they refrain from overturning free governments or exporting human rights abuses I'm not sure the US has any moral basis for interfering in their peaceful economic and/or military expansion.
In short, they're doing the same dang thing we have done for over a century...how the hell do we get off complaining about it?
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