a majority's opinion isn't necessary a correct 1.
But the person who thinks that someone can strike Chinese territory with a nuke and not receive a nuke back is defnitely the wrong one.
China builds more BM silos, but the US may strike even before any MAD with her will become a fact.
Ugh, you don't even know the nuclear triad, hardened silos with decoys, all things that make it nealy impossible for someone to wipe out your nuclear capability in a first strike. Why are you so ignorant but still have such a strong opinion?
Having an ability to control the SCS may turn into self-fulfilling prophecy, leading to war & loss of that control, if not more.
That's not even what a self-fulfilling prophecy is. Why are you always wrong? America's maniacal fear of being overtaken and defeated by China will become a self-fulfilling prophecy as it gives China more reason and drive to do so.
it's a stalemate, as SK was not taken & prospered a lot more than NK, or ROK.
It's not a statemate because when China entered, there was no North Korea left. China literally beat the North Korea out of the US LOL. And that was at a time when Chinese military tech was an insect compared to America's.
then, erase the infamous 9 dash EEZ line from ur maps. Until then, don't call black as white.
LOL Nobody's erasing anything just because you don't understand what it means. That area is China's territory and EEZ but nations can transit EEZs in peacetime without issue. You don't know what black and white is but you ask other people to change maps LOL.
interfering with fishing & shipping to them is as much as attacking their land- people's livelyhoods depend on it.
That's not what they said. Don't make shit up for other people.
that gives the US a good reason to use nukes, if all else fails. Being Anglo-Saxon racists, they don't have any scruples killing Ms of Asians, the same way as with Africans, Arabs & Natives.
But wanting to continue to survive is a better reason for the US not to use nukes. But either way, China's ready. China has nukes with MIRVS, decoys just like the US and even hypersonic nukes that the US does not have. Only desperate defeated people want this nuclear conflict because every other means is an obvious defeat to them. You sound more childish with every post suggesting this.
the trade with the ME goes over those SLOCs. Otherwise there wouldn't be a Chinese naval base in Djibouti.
Look at a map. How many ways are there for China to reach the ME? And also, your scenerio of a Bangladesh+Myanmar blockade on China is a nonsensical fantasy.
to me, ur own analysis is deficient.
And to everyone, yours is. Crazy people don't know they're crazy; they think all the regular people are crazy.
geography is the same as it was since the Chin Dynasty; the modern trends r still repeating the ancient trends in many ways.
is as actual now as it was then.
No, not at all. The Thucydides trap is practically gone now with MAD. The entire basis of the trap is that the stronger nation can still finish the weaker but rising one while preserving itself. With nukes all over, it's not an option. You can only compete.
it is inside the PRC, not in SE Asia next to the SCS; in fact, after 2025-35, it'll start to decline.
China's populating those new islands; there's no debate. There used to be no people, now there are people, buildings, weapons, agriculture, etc...
they do have pride, but don't flaunt it. An Interior secretary is a Native woman, & part-Natives been senators & other politicians.
The Iroquois Confederacy people who inspired US Constitution don't even consider themselves as US citizens- they rejected being made as such in 1924.
What kind of broken self-cheating pride is that? They have pride serving the descendents of the people who drove their ancestors from their homes and murdered the ones who fought back? That's not pride; that's just making a living in the worst situation possible.
no, I just stated a fact.
The fact is irrelevent. You accused others of immorality and I have shown you yours.
I wished that none or at least less of them been killed, but in America even many Natives live better than peoples under authoritarian regimes elsewhere.
Not without pride they can't. You think these people are just animals that only want food and shelter?
China complains about the Yasukuni shrine, but u keep the Mao's mausoleum & his statues even though more Chinese died from his rule than from Hirohito's rule. So, as Chairman Deng said, learn truth from facts.
Chinese people forgive each other especially for the good that Mao has done. But we don't forgive foreigners.
If u don't want to follow ur own cultural norms, that's fine with me,
It's Chinese culural norm to be humble and kind only when the other side is as well; it does not apply here.
but let me handle my writing, fair enough?
You're the guy trying to tell me how nice to be. I don't care if the style of your writing is as dilinquent as the content.
FYI, I was born in the year of the Horse, & according to the Chinese zodiac, such persons can't be defeated in an argument.
I'm seriously cracking up here. You're getting beaten so bad you're trying to conjure up superstitions for why you can't be beaten? LOLOL I was born in the year of the dragon and we kick everybody's ass at everything.
This been proven to be true many times, at least in my experience.
Not this time. But if you simply mean that you spew garbage against other people's wisdom, that's not considered winning and that's the only thing you've done. Everyone here can see with your wishful thinking, "Oh, the US can nuke you and then you don't want to be nuked again so you don't nuke back." You drag up ancient history to falsly analyze modern trends and when people point out to you that right now, in modern times, the US always backs out of fights against powerful nuclear countries, you say, "There's a first time for everything." LOL You consider that an argument? This horse clearly has an intellectual disability and unfortunately for you, horse, arguments are won by being right, not by blabbering more nonsense.
according to past history, the Chinese civilization has ~700-800 year periods of relative peace followed by societal & imperial collapse. With modern weapons & communication, China may have less time for peaceful rise than before.
You cannot even read. I have already said that you'd have to go centuries to find this trend as the modern trend is China continuing to rise.
Neither Taiwan nor SCS islands r in Mainland China.
When the hell did China ever say that Chinese nukes only defend Mainland China? Only in your imagination. Why would you think that the US would defend Guam and Hawaii with nukes but China won't defend these places? It's just stupid.
I post sources from many locations/entities, & they r news, not propaganda.
You post Youtube videos of a cartoon frog doing military analysis to debunk the findings RAND LOL
A forum should not be dominated by those who trust the Chinese propaganda.
Can't help it. It's the truth.
I just express my views & don't parrot any1.
Maybe you should start using other opinions as a guide because your opinions sound like those from a high schooler in a small town taught to hate China without understanding anything. They are in outer space level of ridiculous.