Where will the future threat for China come from?

Vini_Vidi_Vici

Junior Member
Unless it's... Aliens!

LOL. Yeah, I guess. Although US could somewhat affect China, it can't really fundamentally harm China without hurting itself. The only problem is internal tensions, whether it's social, political, or cultural/ethnic. Currently all three are high, either one could easily tear China apart, if the central government isn't careful.
 

solarz

Brigadier
The only problem is internal tensions, whether it's social, political, or cultural/ethnic. Currently all three are high, either one could easily tear China apart, if the central government isn't careful.

Currently? Try forever. With an empire as big as China, internal cohesion is always the biggest issue.
 

Mysterre

Banned Idiot
Perhaps a little off Topic but considering you included the "Economist" in your list of publications that were biased against China,
is the following piece from the latest edition, a figment of the writers imagination?
WTF are you talking about? This doesn't seem to me to be a figment of the writer's imagination, but how does this address bias in the Western media against China? Please tell me you're not lame enough to believe that posting this Economist article will somehow address the issue of bias in any way, shape, or form.

Actually, members supporting China do exactly the same thing.
Oh I agree, there are definitely some people here doing the exact same thing, except in favor of China. Glad to see you ackowledge that you are as equally and as blatantly biased as they are, though. Some people don't have that kind of introspective ability.
 

Vini_Vidi_Vici

Junior Member
WTF are you talking about? This doesn't seem to me to be a figment of the writer's imagination, but how does this address bias in the Western media against China? Please tell me you're not lame enough to believe that posting this Economist article will somehow address the issue of bias in any way, shape, or form.


Oh I agree, there are definitely some people here doing the exact same thing, except in favor of China. Glad to see you ackowledge that you are as equally and as blatantly biased as they are, though. Some people don't have that kind of introspective ability.

Unfortunately we have to admit there are a lot of bias in this forum. If you have noticed, whenever Indian military is mentioned, usually comments are derogatory. Whenever something slightly negative, or even just pointing out problem in Chinese society or military, there's always people that instantly jump out to lash back.

Often it makes me feel this forum is a trash talking arena, than a harmonious forum where people can share info.

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It's so bad to the point that you can only praise and glorify China. Anything else will result in a verbal conflict. Even saying China is behind in some sectors will result in a bad ending.

What's going on?
 

Mysterre

Banned Idiot
Unfortunately we have to admit there are a lot of bias in this forum. If you have noticed, whenever Indian military is mentioned, usually comments are derogatory. Whenever something slightly negative, or even just pointing out problem in Chinese society or military, there's always people that instantly jump out to lash back.

Often it makes me feel this forum is a trash talking arena, than a harmonious forum where people can share info.

---------- Post added at 05:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:16 PM ----------

It's so bad to the point that you can only praise and glorify China. Anything else will result in a verbal conflict. Even saying China is behind in some sectors will result in a bad ending.

What's going on?
The problem for you is that you are on the exact opposite side of unreasonable compared to the Chinese nationalist flagwavers here. Your baseless assertions about Chinese dogfighting is a perfect example. Just because you say are not trying to bash this or that, doesn't mean you don't have a massive bias of your own. Irrationally glorifying China is unreasonable, but just as unreasonable are people who "criticize" China "constructively", who are actually not doing any such thing.
 

ABC78

Junior Member
China's more pressing future threat is resource scarcity. In the book "Winner Take All" Dambisa Moyo talks about the impact of China's efforts to control basic resources, which she says is huge, surpassing even the demands around the world following the Industrial Revolution. This talk was hosted by the World Affairs Council of Seattle.

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bladerunner

Banned Idiot
WTF are you talking about? This doesn't seem to me to be a figment of the writer's imagination, but how does this address bias in the Western media against China? Please tell me you're not lame enough to believe that posting this Economist article will somehow address the issue of bias in any way, shape, or form.

I should have clarified my stance on the quality of the economist plublications. While I think the standard has dropped slightly, I find the Economist less biased in its stories about China than other publications. More often than not it's left up to the writer on how they present their article rather than the policy of the editorial staff and therefore the level of bias varies.
I used this weeks story on some aspect in China to illustrate how the topic matter also has a part to play.In the story about the consequences of flouting China's one child policy, the writer as the title suggests set out to expose the worst punishment practices where essentially there is little room for excuses.
 
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Mysterre

Banned Idiot
I should have clarified my stance on the quality of the economist plublications. While I think the standard has dropped slightly, I find the Economist less biased in its stories about China than other publications. More often than not it's left up to the writer on how they present their article rather than the policy of the editorial staff and therefore the level of bias varies.
I find it very telling that you think an organization that many Chinese consider to be one of the MOST biased against China, to actually be LESS biased than other publications. I stopped subscribing to the Economist for this very reason. Of all the Western media sources, all of which I and many others consider to be definitively biased against China, probably BBC has been in my experience the least condescending, arrogant, ignorant, and sometimes borderline (sometimes overtly) racist like the rest of the Western media. Though we have also seen evidence of BBC's failures of journalistic integrity as recently as the Tibet riots. Just because the Chinese media is grossly non-neutral DOESN'T mean the Western media is significantly better.
 
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