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Commie Killer wrote:

GorillaTicTacs wrote:

Commie Killer wrote:

Cheap labor is in abundance there, thats for sure, the trade deficet is amazing, also, which is even more amazing is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_aid_to_China

$1.4 billion is absolutely nothing, Bill Gates could write the check himself without breaking a sweat.  I'm not saying its even close to right though.

China is the big 800-lb gorilla though, but we have each other by the short-hairs.  If they start dumping their dollars, they'll devalue their own currency as the yuan has been pegged solidly to the dollar since 1998 (pegged = relatively proportional at all times).  If they don't start dumping their dollars, and the dollar keeps sliding anyways (against the GBP or Euro, for example), they still lose.  If they start calling in their debts and snapping up hard American assets (not the liquid stuff like stocks, like factories and real estate), they'll still lose as the deflationary spiral hits in the US.

Basically, China and the US are now in a strange sort of tightrope walk holding hands, and it sucks to be a citizen of either one, as they could start falling at any minute.  War spending and easy credit made this happen, god bless the neo-cons.

I doubt that losing our trade with them would hurt us as much as them, we would bounce back as other countries took up the slack. Cutting trade between the PRC and the USA would hurt us but it would kill them.

PvtStPoK wrote:

good job Beijing!

Mekstizzle wrote:

So in response, many of the Americans in this thread have talked about Military action. Sometimes I wonder just....how civilised (is that the right world) some people are.

This isn't a bash to Americans, I'm just making a note that it's funny something like this can't be discussed without resorting to Military action/Kill them all action.

Just accept that this is a problem you can't solve with M1A2's and F22 fighter Jets, and then you can go from there. Unfortunately, that mind set will never seem to go.

Mekstizzle wrote:

So in response, many of the Americans in this thread have talked about Military action. Sometimes I wonder just....how civilised (is that the right world) some people are.

This isn't a bash to Americans, I'm just making a note that it's funny something like this can't be discussed without resorting to Military action/Kill them all action.

Just accept that this is a problem you can't solve with M1A2's and F22 fighter Jets, and then you can go from there. Unfortunately, that mind set will never seem to go.

Harmor wrote:

What if we just stopped recognizing the Chinese debt?

Shopvac wrote:

I was just in Shanghai and Beijing last December. Catbox is right about the pollution . . . it's a mother fucker in Shanghai. Any way, Does anyone else think that this slue of bad imports into the United States is actually just a political tactic to try and strong arm Beijing? I think that the quality of our Chinese imports has not changed in the last 8 - 12 years; and everything we're reading about now is actually a political maneuver from Washington. Agree Disagree?

RoosterCantrell wrote:

The U.S. or China, pissing on eachother too much to and extent that starts a war would only end in a global war where everyone will lose.

M.A.D.


Both parties know it, and won't take it that direction.