I think youre pretty wrong there Windy.

consider the long term issue of having the worlds 2 largest populations living next to each other Windy.  and keep in mind both have nukes, resource shortages and a huge poor population.

Originally Posted By GDS_Starfury

consider the long term issue of having the worlds 2 largest populations living next to each other Windy.  and keep in mind both have nukes, resource shortages and a huge poor population.

What's the implication?

Originally Posted By GDS_Starfury

consider the long term issue of having the worlds 2 largest populations living next to each other Windy.  and keep in mind both have nukes, resource shortages and a huge poor population.

absolutely not gonna happen, they will expend great amounts of resources to ignore each other. They're national identities are not based on; a cultural paranoia, or a competitive aggresion, or needing an enemy to unite them.

Japan and China will piss on each other mightily before India and China go to blows.

Originally Posted By Windigo

Originally Posted By GDS_Starfury

consider the long term issue of having the worlds 2 largest populations living next to each other Windy.  and keep in mind both have nukes, resource shortages and a huge poor population.

 

absolutely not gonna happen, they will expend great amounts of resources to ignore each other. They're national identities are not based on; a cultural paranoia, or a competitive aggresion, or needing an enemy to unite them.

 

Japan and China will piss on each other mightily before India and China go to blows.

 

The Coming China-India Conflict: Is War Inevitable?

By Ishaan Tharoor

... It's not inevitable, but peace cannot be taken for granted. The scope for these two countries to develop peacefully and fulfill their national interests without entering into competition is getting smaller due to internal social pressures and rising nationalism. I am not arguing that they don't want to develop peacefully, but that the options for doing so are not that great. They'll be competing at all levels, not only for economic opportunities, but for regional influence. This will lead to an uncomfortable and risky situation.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1974028,00.html

like I said, they will expend a great amount of resources trying to avoid each other

Originally Posted By Windigo

like I said, they will expend a great amount of resources trying to avoid each other

Twenty-three seconds after I posted the article; your reply tells me you're not considering anything beyond your own perspective.

Originally Posted By ActionJack

Originally Posted By Windigo

like I said, they will expend a great amount of resources trying to avoid each other

Twenty-three seconds after I posted the article; your reply tells me you're not considering anything beyond your own perspective.

read it before... it is almost a year old.... you want something newer...

Originally Posted By Windigo

Originally Posted By ActionJack

Originally Posted By Windigo

like I said, they will expend a great amount of resources trying to avoid each other

Twenty-three seconds after I posted the article; your reply tells me you're not considering anything beyond your own perspective.

 

read it before... it is almost a year old.... you want something newer...

I understand now; you're acknowledging that the article doesn't support your view.  Where is the author wrong and how so? Or what's changed since his book's release that now makes his assessment inaccurate?

War between India and Red China is not inconceivable, as China claims one of the Indian provinces - Utar Pradesh, I think. But it is not an existential conflict. Their border in mostly mountainous and neither seems overly confident in their military to be able to do the job. Any conflict would be very contained and almost symbolic just like in the past. I really would not put much value on any rhetoric, particularly from the Indian side.

There is widespread international debate on the extent to which China’s naval expansions pose a threat to U.S. dominance of the world’s oceans. George Friedman and author and foreign affairs expert Robert Kaplan agree on China’s ambition, but have very different views on its geopolitical impact.

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20111115-stratfor-conversation-george-friedman-and-special-guest-robert-kaplan?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20111116&utm_term=kaplan&utm_content=video&elq=22bd6df753da4264b8f5827af195d88b

Buddy Hackett on Red China.  "Well, would look okay on a yellow tablecloth."

if something kicks off in the next 20 years, China is going to get creamed.

beyond 20 years is to fluid to warrent speculation.

Originally Posted By GDS_Starfury

if something kicks off in the next 20 years, China is going to get creamed.

beyond 20 years is to fluid to warrent speculation.

If one defines "creamed" as the effect the U.S. has had on its adversaries over the last decade of war then perhaps the description is apt.  Certainly before the war one would have so predicted.  I'm not so certain that prediction would have been judged as accurate.

an article on Chinese subs.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/china-submarines/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WiredDangerRoom+%28Blog+-+Danger+Room%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Originally Posted By KevlarSocks

 

. . . If China is claiming the South China Sea even within national boundaries of other countries there then it is likely it will come to a shooting war. It might be 20 to 50 years away. In that situation I fear Vancouver may become a Chinese beachhead in North America. It has a massive Chinese population.

 

HEY SOCKS

How about some commentary and analysis on the secret "Israeli  / Chinese" unholy alliance?

http://www.wargamer.com/forums/posts.asp?t=582199

Apologies to Jarhead and everyone else.

its realpolotik.

Israel has been the US's glacis plate since 1948.