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> because China is perceived by the US to be a strategic threat for the exact same logic, I am 100% sure that Mongolia and Kazakhstan are never perceived by th
by dis-sys 7y ago
> because China is perceived by the US to be a strategic threat
for the exact same logic, I am 100% sure that Mongolia and Kazakhstan are never perceived by the US to be a strategic threat, they undisputedly lack such ideological and military capacity. is that suddenly an advantage?
- skissane 7y agoI think the main reason why the US doesn't perceive Mongolia or Kazakhstan as being a strategic threat, is their small population – Mongolia's is only 3.25 million, and Kazakhstan's is only 18.4 million. They lack the necessary population to be an economic or military great power (unlike China, India and Japan). (The only way the US could ever perceive Mongolia or Kazakhstan as a significant threat, would be if they started building nuclear weapons or funding international terrorism; neither country has demonstrated any interest in doing that.)
- dis-sys 7y ago> I think the main reason why the US doesn't perceive Mongolia or Kazakhstan as being a strategic threat, is their small population It has nothing to do with the population itself. Back in the 80s, when China had >1 billion population at the time, US didn't consider China as a strategic threat, it even offered to sell China all kinds of techs & military hardware. It all happened when China was far less open to the world and far more focused on its communist ideology stuff.