Daily Politics: Is Trump Pissing Off China Wise?

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Egelo said:

Soundwave said:

This is the type of thinking that almost destroyed the world during the Cuban Missle Crisis during the actual Cold War. JFK's military chiefs were convinced nuclear war with Russia was inevitable, if he had listened to them likely most of central Europe, China, Russia, and the probably a major US city like New York would've been eradicated in nuclear war. 

JFK + Khruschev saved the world from more extremist elements in their power ranks, I have no doubt of it. The thinking that war is inevitable and thus a first strike must be implemented is extremely dangerous, none of us posting on this board would likely even be alive to post because human history would've been so radically different. 

lol no.  China is no miltary match they are not getting into a cold war with the US, Soviets did casuse thast all they had.  

China US will clash is coming, better it be now and a trade war.  Will balance out the world.  Letting them go uninterupted out of some patetic fear is well pathetic.

That's just stupidity. The US has the military capability of blowing up the world 4 times over, but China only has the capability of doing it once. When the power of each side is that huge, then relative size is irrelevant. Whatever the US does, China can still scorch a lot of earth in retaliation and it won't matter who wins that sort of military conflict.

The US cannot afford a direct military conflict with China. In some ways, because living in poverty, subsistence and low access to technology in the living memory of most of its population, makes China more resilient at managing the aftgermath of direct military conflict with the USA. The US military might be hard, but the US citizenry is soft.

The US also can't afford a trade war. And if the USA starts closing its doors, it only strengthen's China's hand.