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Originally posted by sminkeypinkey
You'd stir things up and risk nuking the world to protect the US's 'right' to cultural imperialism (polluting foreign cultures with garbage) and the profits of the already mega profitable corporations, huh?
God save us all from this insanity.
Originally posted by FredT
I like that Cultural Imperialism.
However, Sminkey, unlike the tradition bound countries of Europe, America is a blend of multiple cultures, with more groups than you can shake a stick at contributing to the overall "American" experience.
If the people in those cultures really thought of Levis, McDonalds, and Coke as "Garbage" then they simply would not buy thses products.
Most people do have a choice. France if I recall tried or is trying to preserve its cultural identity, but if the people are not intersted they will adopt whatever they feel suits thier needs.
Just because American cultural icons are worldwide does not constitute garbage. Nor did I see protests when KFC opened up in Bejing.
Far too many towns and cities in the world now look utterly alike IMO - and it's a loss for us all
Originally posted by AD5673
China wont do s_hit. They would be very stupid to start a war with America or Russia. They are probably just scared the U.S. will turn their back on them, like TC said. Russia has missle defense, and could shoot the nuke down. And it was Russia who gave nuclear technology to China so they would know how to deal with their own nukes.
Originally posted by WisdomMaster
Boss, for sure China is very serious about Taiwan. How would you feel if New York state wanted to separate from the US and France helped the Governor acquiring its own missiles, weapons and so on? Do you think the US administration would ignore this?
Originally posted by ludahai
Originally posted by WisdomMaster
Boss, for sure China is very serious about Taiwan. How would you feel if New York state wanted to separate from the US and France helped the Governor acquiring its own missiles, weapons and so on? Do you think the US administration would ignore this?
THe difference is, while New York is definately a part of the United States (one of the founding states as a matter of fact), Taiwan most definately IS NOT a part of China.
Originally posted by goldenboy
Originally posted by ludahai
Originally posted by WisdomMaster
Boss, for sure China is very serious about Taiwan. How would you feel if New York state wanted to separate from the US and France helped the Governor acquiring its own missiles, weapons and so on? Do you think the US administration would ignore this?
THe difference is, while New York is definately a part of the United States (one of the founding states as a matter of fact), Taiwan most definately IS NOT a part of China.
Huh? What do you mean Taiwan is definitely not part of China?
For most of her history, Taiwan was always a part of China. Taiwan has been part of China longer than USA even existed.
So please explain why Taiwan is DEFINITELY not part of China?
Originally posted by Blackout
Zcheng, I'm curious to know what is your stance? You promote no war with US and China, yet you seem to persist in stating that people will learn their lessons on the battlefield or you will greet them there. Exactly what are you trying to preach here?
Originally posted by Blackout
If there is in fact a war that rips apart the world, we're going to look back at this 80 years from now and call ourselves stupid for having risked so much for a small island. Ultimately, we would be better off settling this peacefully because no matter how much you'd want the US to not get into this war, you know deep inside it's inevitable.
Originally posted by Blackout
Don't get me wrong but I'm pretty sure there are Chinese people that have no desire of confronting the US military. Perhaps you're just an extremist as there are plenty of Chinese people that have no intention of going to war with the US or even Taiwan for that matter.
Originally posted by imAMERICAN
i dont understand you guys, why do u bother countin how many missiles china or usa has, or what strength they are? does it matter? if one nation launches at another, the retaliation would be almost instant and it would destroy both nations, and the nuclear winter would crush the rest of humanity. its simple. we wouldnt use nukes likeconventional bombs, "carpet bombing everything" thats crazy. im willing to bet, that in a nuclear war, not even 30% of a nations nukes would be launched-becuz the ones that did launch did the damage, and whats left, is gone.there would be no "several nukes bombing cities" actually, it would only take 5 nukes to destroy a nation. its that scary? FIVE! thats it guys. 5 major cities disapear ina flash of light, hundreds of millions die, and the retaliations come and antother 5 or so go, and another 5 and the radiation kills us all. there will never be a nuclear war becuase of MAD so you can rest assured, i jjus thought id ramble on about that cuz it makes sense...
Originally posted by imAMERICAN
your talking about the sum of all fears screnario.... you guys have a point about the taiwon thing.. i dont think the usa is going ot risk war with china over an island, unless of course we get some UN backing this time, although i dont think china would use nuclear weapons, becuase that would ensure the destruction of itself, and the only thing i can imagine, is china shipping troops to taiwon and the usa shipping troops to taiwon, i think thats all it will be, a battle on taiwon, the usa prolly wont stoop to invading the mainland of china becuase that would escalate the situation- which is why we NEED to have atleast 2 million active troops, not 1 million... we need to maintain global presence in the event of a large war, i almost guarentee people taking advantage of a war of this kind, by launching terror atks or other conflicts that the usa cant stop becuz its troops are spread to thin-thats whats gunna lead to ww3... sorry for rant lol
Originally posted by Blackout
Yes but if the US just let's China stomp all over Taiwan then it'll lose its reputation as some dorky "savior" or whatever it is that Bush thinks he is.