(08-11-2017, 09:55 PM)MalabarJag Wrote:

(08-11-2017, 07:42 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Read Sun Tzu you fools. 

China has removed the U.S. military option without firing a shot. 

Now we are reduced to asking China how badly their rabid dog has to misbehave before they decide to stop feeding it.

If China went to war with the US, they would lose their largest market. Their factories would close and their economy would collapse.

Also, whatever debt the US owes them (trillions of dollars) would be zeroed out.

That last sentence is nonsense.   China and the US don't deal directly with each other to trade US debt.   It's bought and sold on the world financial markets.   So there is no way to "zero out" the US debt that China is holding.    

Also, if the Chinese go to war with the US, it wouldn't only hurt the Chinese economy.  It would cause a collapse of the world economy and hurt us just as badly.   A collapse of the Chinese economy would cause a worldwide depression.

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(08-11-2017, 07:42 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Read Sun Tzu you fools. 

China has removed the U.S. military option without firing a shot. 

Now we are reduced to asking China how badly their rabid dog has to misbehave before they decide to stop feeding it.

Maybe China has not removed the US military option.    The key is in your last sentence.   What they have done is draw a line.   This gives us the opportunity to ask them to further define the conditions under which they will abandon NK.   And then we need to make sure those conditions occur.   Checkmate.   Kaboom.  Problem solved.

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