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December 20, 2013

The Great War’s Ominous Echoes

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It is tempting — and sobering — to compare today’s relationship between China and America to that between Germany and England a century ago.
Lulling ourselves into a false sense of safety, we say that countries that have McDonald’s will never fight one another. Yet the extraordinary growth in trade and investment between China and the United States since the 1980s has not served to allay mutual suspicions. At a time when the two countries are competing for markets, resources and influence from the Caribbean to Central Asia, China has become increasingly ready to translate its economic strength into military power. - - NYTimes.com

Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 20, 2013 6:05 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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I would never think the Chinese would try to poison us with lead paint on children's toy or poison our food supply.

Hey... check this out. What could go wrong?
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/usda-allow-china-process-chickens-ship-back-u-214500281.html

Posted by: Potsie at December 20, 2013 6:47 AM

There was at least one multinational business/social organization prior to the Great War that published incessantly that war was impossible between nations so economically linked.

Oops.

Posted by: TmjUtah at December 20, 2013 11:34 AM

For those of you who do not wish to pollute your computers by visiting NYTimes.com, here is a link to the same author's essay on the Brookings Institution Web Site:

http://www.brookings.edu/research/essays/2013/rhyme-of-history

Posted by: Fat Man at December 20, 2013 2:35 PM

I avoid NYTimes. Thanks for the link to Brookings.

The NYTimes has been complicit in misinforming people at least since the Ukraine famine if not longer.
Have you noticed pictures at many protests in USA have an inordinate number of Chinese? I first noticed it when Petrasis was hassled at Columbia mostly by orientals. It was the same time a 59 year old illegal alien Chinese female painted Lincoln Memorial and National Cathedral with green paint making it seem like environmental protest. We get illegal Chinese aliens at our hospital because after being apprehended they have TB

Posted by: grace at December 21, 2013 11:30 AM

I started reading it, until I got to the phrase "like the British Nationalist Party and the Tea Party", and I stopped right there. Just another shallow uncritical analysis by a member in good standing of the Progressive Left. Don't waste your time.

Posted by: John A. Fleming at December 21, 2013 1:59 PM

China's military might is mostly made up of "having more guys than you." I would not be surprised if they did some military expanding but not against us. Their air force and especially navy is for crap.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 21, 2013 2:18 PM

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