Yep, you do

Yeah a cold war 2...

Their an existential threat and we need to start treating them that way

That'll end well.

They’re

First one did @Sire Fagsalot

It ended poorly for the Soviet’s

The Chinese might win in 50-100 years

But we’ll lose if we allow status quo

The Chinese are already beating the USA in some tech fields

They're catching up quickly as well

I'm not very optimistic though. China's reach is deeper than america can ever hope to accomplish

We get weaker everyday

I wouldn't call years and years of fear of world nuclear destruction with a few close calls 'ending well'

American has FAR more friendly

Why? @Sire Fagsalot

War didn't happen

The One Belt One Road initiative

China is also quite fragile.

The USA won.

All of China’s neighbors hate them

There was a case where nuclear war almost happened because of a glitch

They're shifting towards a service based economy @leavethisbotnet

Honestly

But it didn't @Sire Fagsalot

kek

China is too reliant on exports

We need to ditch Ukraine and have a rapprochement with the Russians

Exports which they are reducing @leavethisbotnet

"Everyone almost died"
"Yeah but they didn't so let's keep doing this"

Imagine we were in a cold war with china and something like the Hawaii scare happens again?

Yeah but the politicians of those countries still sell their countries to China. Widespread corruption & treachery

The Russians can be a valuable ally against Beijing

Do you think the governments going to waitto see if it's a false alarm?

It didn't happen though @Sire Fagsalot

China wont be this vulnerable forever, but right now, they are.

@Sire Fagsalot yes they will

@Nathan James 123

Our allies have militaries in the same way that if there's a broken down Yugo in your back yard you "own a car". Remember Kosovo? That was when our "allies" had a problem in their own back yard. They responded by wringing their hands and complaining until daddy decided to fix it for them.

Remember when France decided to punish ISIS for the Paris attacks? Yeah they unleashed the fury of 10 planes and 20 fucking bombs. Bearing in mind this is the same "ally" that refused airspace to our airforce.

There were numerous scares during the Cold War

They're also vulnerable in regards to oil/gas

And every time no one fired