Comments on: Heading Off the Next War http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/heading_off_the_next_war/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:10:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Art Keon http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/heading_off_the_next_war/comment-page-1/#comment-15203 Art Keon Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=5760#comment-15203 My best bet is that China will simply take Taiwan when they are ready. How much blood will be shed will be a function of the strength of Taiwanese resistance. The US can no longer fight for Taiwan given its close ties to China, the massive amounts of US debt held by China, the lack of a manfacturing base to fight a conventional war and the substantial US investment in China itself. Does anything think the we will threaten the Chinese with Nuclear war over Taiwan? The Chinese have boxed the US in, thanks no small part to GWB. Clinton, though oversaw the beginning of the this checkmate. Bush by running ever larger trade, current account and budgetary deficits has played right into China's hand. Art --- My best bet is that China will simply take Taiwan when they are ready. How much blood will be shed will be a function of the strength of Taiwanese resistance. The US can no longer fight for Taiwan given its close ties to China, the massive amounts of US debt held by China, the lack of a manfacturing base to fight a conventional war and the substantial US investment in China itself. Does anything think the we will threaten the Chinese with Nuclear war over Taiwan? The Chinese have boxed the US in, thanks no small part to GWB. Clinton, though oversaw the beginning of the this checkmate. Bush by running ever larger trade, current account and budgetary deficits has played right into China's hand.

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