The news about China is designed to keep us scared. If we were not so scared we might realise that we can all live happy comfortable lives (if only the 5% who owns 80% of this world would share...)
I think that the worst case scenario is the US causing a conflict with China in an attempt to hold on to the US hegemony.
The US's 50 year reign as super power is coming to a close (as super powers are economic, rather than military, these decades).
China or the UN will be next. As humans (politicians) can never agree, it will be China.....
>>The world's oil production will start to decline soon and a nation's oil consuption is very closly tied to its GDP. This is very, very troubling. USA and other countries in Europe and Asia will do anything to get oil.
We already have....
USA (et al) in Iraq and Australia in Timor.
Oil (petrol) is only going to get more expensive from here.
>>We're really pushing alternative energy sources
Hahahahaha...oh you were serious....
>>i doubt they can properly equip and supply their 200 million troops in combat...
and its not like a few thousand determined Iraqis, armed with what they can steal, has held up 140,000 US marines for a couple of YEARS.....and will continue to do so for a few more.
I suggest you look at the ways our troops have been killed in Iraq.
Then look at how our troops were killed in Vietnam.
Notice anything?
Its because they are cheap, easy to construct and unmanned.
>>BobMcGee123 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,74845,00.html
I can't beleive you linked to FOX in a serious discussion......