“Look at the recently released video footage of Australian SAS soldiers blatantly murdering unarmed civilians in Afghanistan, and tell me China won’t throw that back at us if we start to complain about their poor human rights record.”
Exactly. And remind me again what interests the Australian DEFENCE force has in the middle east, apart from fighting someone else’s war over energy control and greenback protection?
“China can not be allowed to pursue a policy of takeover by stealth”
China has no different vision for its place in the world than America or England before it. Spain, Portugal…..
Power and influence, access to raw materials, energy and labor.
Simply put, China wants to sit at the table and enjoy the spoils of globalisation that we have been enjoying.
The concerning thing about the rising rhetoric on this forum and in the wider community regarding the rise of China as a global player is the suggestion that they must be stopped with force.
As Dr Dre has pointed out, China is presently expanding its influence across the world in a much more neighborly way than the English did or the Americans did. I have not yet seen China engage in mass conflict in the way many other rising powers have in the past.
“…nothing can prevent a very major conflict in the near to medium future.”
I agree but for very different reasons.
“The Communist Party are the biggest mafia thugs on the planet.”
Really? I think the US Government and its lackeys in Canberra and London are. If anyone stands in the way of dollar hegemony we literally bomb the crap out of their country. Excuse me, we “liberate” them from dictators……
“Which side of this equation do you expect will more likely give?”
I guarantee that our economic system will continue to exploit cheap labor unabated until the temple comes crashing down over our heads. Which it has started to do.
“And once we run out of Cambodias, Laos, Saipans, African States etc, - assuming China hasn't got there first- where do we turn to next?”
Ourselves, because at some point in the future, with wage purchasing power flat lining for ever, we will again become affordable and the world will have turned full circle as we return to serfdom.
“The Federal reserve has started to buy Blackrock’s junk bond etf’s. Translation bailing out the rich no other way to say it.”
It is indeed, again an example of socialism for the wealthy and capitalism for the poor. And its also been suggested by some that the Treasury and Federal Reserve are now merged into a privatized operation managed by Blackrock.
“Cut to the chase, you're told you have to live the rest of your life in China or the USA. Which would you choose??”
I would refer you to the famous, yet probably inaccurate quote when someone was asked in the mid 1960’s how they felt about the French revolution.
“Its to early to say”.
My point being that today America is a pleasant place to live if you have money.
However, we are going to live through the replacement of the greenback as a foreign reserve currency and a dramatic collapse of fiat money that will have a profound impact on the US economy and the way of life here.
Coupled with a virus that is turning state versus state and Federal Government versus state with a heavily armed population who think they are being lied to, I suspect things here are going to turn very very very ugly.
So to answer your question, its too early to say.