Good points.

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We have to remember that China intervened in the Korean War. They have already taken us on one time. The guys running the joint at the Politburo level remember this. Not President Xi, but the Politburo guys.

They are going to fiercely protect their mainland sanctuary.

They are serious about Hong Kong and Taiwan.

They do not want an American aircraft carrier docked against Manchuria — meaning they don’t want S Korea to absorb N Korea and have a border up on the Yalu River — which is why they don’t want to decapitate Kim il Bozo.

We felt the same way for a long time about Cuba.

They do not have a very good navy, but the Taiwan Strait is now a short hop for an amphibious landing or rocket fire. Their air force is high on themselves, which I think is a huge error. Nonetheless, they are high on themselves.

They have never projected force over the horizon militarily, but they are now quite comfortable with projecting economic force over the horizon into S America, Central America, and Africa.

They hate Japan and would nuke them in a second.

One has to know that the S China Sea islands are a huge victory for their expansionist views. After promising everyone they had no military intentions, they have big runways, radar, and rockets. They can put airplanes on those runways in six hours.

Yes, China is getting its jock on for some exercise.

BRC
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I think that your correlation of “peace” and “best egg rolls” is spot on! It sure is fun to watch the MSM continuing to melt down.

In the world, in some pairs of time and place there have been peace, and in others there have been horrific conflicts.

Net, I don’t understand all these conflicts. E.g., just why are so many Never Trumpers, NYT-MSM propagandists, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi, Hollywood actresses screaming such ugly nonsense about Trump? They seem to want an extra-legal revolution, close to a shooting civil war, that might become a shooting civil war, to dump Trump, dump the SCOTUS, dump the Constitution, and start Kumbaya Land with their hero Hildabeast. That would be the most massive extraction of miserable defeat from the jaws of magnificent victory in the history of the solar system, but they want it more than air or water.

Why the conflict? I don’t know.

Apparently near the end of Gulf War I, a guess was that, if the Iraqi Republican Guard were destroyed, then maybe Saddam would be driven from power and Iraq would be better, or liked better, by the US. Huh? Without Saddam to put his Stalinist boot on all the malcontents set on revolution, the place would become a civil war of Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, with factions of those, with connections with war in Syria, with connections with war with Iran, with connections with some of the other Gulf states, with severe concerns of Turkey, with only one thing they could all agree on — kill all the Jews. Oops, then kill all the Americans. Then for the Shiites, kill everyone else. For the Sunnis, kill everyone else. And here we don’t have to guess because after we dumped Saddam in Gulf War II and spent about $3 T to make the place a shining city on a hill, that is just what happened and is still happening. Uh, where can we apply to bring Saddam back?

There is enough oil money in Iraq for the people there to live lives of milk and honey, working all of about an hour a day, but instead they want to fight over nothing.

Some millions of people were killed in WWI, and the ending was so bad that it left a seed for WWII. And why? Some alliances and some Archduke of the Holy Roman Empire? Huh???? WTF???

Then there is Dung Dong Song Pong Ill in Ping Pong Yang. What could he possibly want that he has a chance of getting and doesn’t already have? He’s got to know he will not be permitted to be a nuclear weapons supplier to Iran and other dirt bags of the world. And for his 100 pound per person poor peasant population (notice the awful alliteration), what he should be doing is cutting deals with, say, Foxconn. Then, since he has pushed some of his brightest people to work their way through a lot of the literature on applied math, applied physics, and engineering, they could also start to do what Samsung did — start to build stuff. With the revenue, he could buy enough food to get his average weight up 5 pounds and have enough heating oil to stay warm in the winters. Nope, he’d rather walk close to the line of having a rather severe accident.

Then there’s Xi: I don’t know what his concern is. Maybe he is afraid, as the Chinese leaders long have been, that if they relax their dictatorial controls even just a little then they will have a revolution with at least two sides fighting, maybe more, and maybe 300 million people killed. So, Xi wants a solid boot on the necks of everyone who could organize a threat to Xi. Maybe.

Then there are Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan: Why do they all seem peaceful? Why don’t they rise up, start screaming and fighting? Maybe if Elizabeth Warren would visit them for a while, they would start screaming about something or other.

Why isn’t Canada screaming? Canada always seems calm. Same for Australia and New Zealand.

Then there’s the EU: It used to seem calm. Then some isolated Poobahs in Brussels decided that the right thing to do was to import into all of the EU every poor person they could find in the Mideast and North Africa, to let them form No Go communities, come out on holidays and rape all the women and girls, scream for more welfare, be basically unemployable, and plot to kill all the Christians and Jews. Bright Poobahs. Then England decided to cut that cord with Brexit, and now they are all screaming.

Net, I can’t make any sense of which people and countries are screaming and shooting and which are not. So, in particular, I can’t make any sense out of Hong Kong, Xi, Taiwan, the South China Sea, Japan, the two Koreas, etc.

For all I know, the reason Hong Kong is peaceful is that they have the best egg rolls, and everyone is sitting around happy enjoying them. Makes as much sense to me as anything else and more sense than Mika, Beth Warren, Nasty Nancy, the San Francisco treat, etc.

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/china-v-hong-kong-red-line/

Could get ugly. China is testy about Hong Kong, Taiwan, North Korea, and its fortified, island paradise in the South China Sea.

Better read this.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com

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