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Originally Posted by stony ground
IMHO, the Chinese do not want a war, they want to become a regional military and economic superpower, eventually rivaling the US for world hegemony. They didn't get to this point by beign rash, they are thinking 100 years down the road. Even Taiwan will come to them in the fullness of time, they believe, as did Hong Kong and Macao. They want to be able to project economic, political and military power the way the US does, and a war with the USA will set them back on that path by decades.
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Yup; I'd agree that they might be on the verge of attack, if they thought like we do.
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