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Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy
By the way, the USA has a massive military edge over China. The Chinese can overcome it, I mean its conceivable that any country could given enough time, even Mexico. But at the moment, and for at least the next few decades, American military dominance will be pretty total, even if the Chinese economy eclipses the American one. So in a military controntation, it would be smarter to side with the Americans and let Israel have the Chinese (not that either is possible or likely)
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China has deep-water berthing rights to the new warm-water port they're building at Gawadar, Pakistan. They're financing the lion's share of that port in return for those rights, and that port will give them nearly unrestricted access to the warm Gulf waters. Through diplomacy and business, they got what the USSR failed to get 30 years ago.
And if you read the Economist and what they've been saying recently, they've noted that its a high probability that in less than 60 years, we'll see an America that's looking inward more and more as India and China expand, so much so that a time may come when America will seek implicit permission from China & co. before going on ill-fated missions like Iraq.