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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] China is sorta the odd man out with regards to military- a nuclear power that does not intervene militarily to achieve it's goals. (not like the US and NATO do anyway) Oh sure, they have the goods to rain hell on some country, but it's almost a moot point with North Korea also having nukes (or at least atomic weapons) right in their back yard. And India has nukes. Pakistan. The Galapagos Islands. Well, everyone, really. Except the Iran, Syria, Libya etc. (and those assholes have other WMD weapons just as terifying). And therein lies the issue- China can sit back, confident the US will spend whatever resources, borrowed or otherwise, are needed to keep nuclear weapons from the nuts most likely to use them. And the US and China are in this odd position where the US owes so much money to China that neither wants to step on the other's toes- any war would have the US blow off any debt obligations and the US cant have China call in it's loans so it turns a blind eye to human rights abuses and China's formenting civil war in Africa over metals and resources. Trade deficits wont get addressed for the same reasons- cant piss off our creditors, so they hose us in an area that could (in part) get us out of debt. Wait, this was about a [i]plane[/i]?!? Huh. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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