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I really wish we wouldn't speculate about China starting a war. It's completely baseless and comes across as some sort of china-man-bad xenophobia.

• jacquesm 4y ago
  That's entirely on you then. I'm free to notice a pattern between countries led by individuals that are failing economically and what is happening in China and to see a war as one of the possible outcomes. That's - unfortunately - a realistic option, it may not have very high odds but they definitely aren't zero. Internet fora are a place where such speculation will happen and for that to happen the odds are allowed to be a lot lower than those for China at war. And if such speculation turns out to be baseless than so much the better. If you're willing to put up a hard guarantee that this can't possibly happen I'd like to see some hard evidence as to why you believe this to be the case. I'm sure it would make lots of people sleep a lot better.
• pas 4y ago
  Have you read about this "danger zone" argument? What do you think of it? https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/book-review-danger-zone https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/book-review-danger-zone
• tasuki 4y ago
  The person you're replying to said this might cause China to start a war. He did not say it was a sure thing, he simply said this is how things often are. In no way was the comment china-man-bad xenophobia.
• 8note 4y ago
  Baseless? China's policy is reunification. Why xenophobic? America man invaded Iraq on a whim, and Russia man invaded Ukraine after having a policy of reunification Countries are exerting might-is-right