Why do liberals not see China's hegemonial beliefs as being threatening... and dangerous?
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Cause poor people from states that vote for Republicans go to wal mart and buy stuff that is made in China.\n\nThats a smart @ss answer, but essentially,  up until about a month ago I was all oh my gosh China is the enemy.\n\nChina just wants to sell America goods cause it makes them money.\nThey have a problem in that their one child policy is going to cause a shift in population to where they have a lot of elderly.\n\nEssentially the same thing here, with the baby boomers about to suck off social security.\n\nChina has a big air force,  and they are the second largest nation that is a consumer of oil on the world market, but . .\nthe biggest buyer of Chinese goods on the world stage is the United States.\n\nSo you say what about that they own 350 billion of US debt?\n\nTo that I say, I voted for Kerry who would have raised taxes reducing our need to borrow from foreign entities.\n\nIn short, stop being an @ss yourself and playing the liberal bad conservative good game.\n\nIts politically fashionable to say o no the President is selling these ports to the arabs, have you jumped on that bandwagon too?\n\nI'm defending the President on this.  Its a private transaction to sell the management not the security of the port to a firm.\n\nKuwait and Dubai own stock in Chrysler, but no one freaks out over that ownership.
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China has always been a threat.\n\nNuclear weapons do not increase that risk.  They provide balance that results in a healthy trade arrangement.
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Currently, China is not considered much of a war threat.  The country appears much more focused on expanding its economy.  Therefore, our relations are fairly strong.  However, the Chinese government has been artificially devaluing its currency for many years, enabling its businesses to export huge amounts all over the world.\n\nThe U.S. has been insisting that the Chinese revalue their currency (raise its value relative to other currencies).  In its devalued state, it is cheaper for foreign countries to import Chinese goods.\n\nThe incredible trade imbalance between the U.S. and China cannot continue like this forever.  China must open more of its markets to the U.S.
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Liberals are really looney::: especially in YOUR country, where they seem to run the show over in the UK and have the conservative voices muffled with their constant screaming "RACIST!!!, RACIST!!"  Those PC fools are a joke.\nTHey have a temper tantrum here in America too when they hear opposing views because they are so damn self-righteous and childish.\nTheir world views are childish too: a la la land of sorts where eveyone is celebrated for being different and lives in peace and harmony-- sadly enough they don't seem to mind when white civilians get harmed because of racial hatred, because anyone who is different can do no wrong and they deep down feel that we deserve it.\nThey are traitors to the third degree and should be temporarily jailed for treason until they regain their sanity.
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Many countries are a threat to world peace...depends upon where you live and your opinions of the matter.
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Liberals only think of the present and what they want now. They don't look at the big picture and consider what the consequences\nof their actions and demands will be further down the road.
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Because China is an oppressive communist country. They sensore everything their people see, they don't want any individuality or new ideas. China is a country that forces the people to believe what they want them to believe.
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for communists, the chinese are damn good capitalists.\n\nBut to get to the point, China was a large military and the US doesn't think they need it.\n\nChina thinks it has the right to sell arms to whomever it pleases. The US disagrees (let's not forget that the US sells arms to damn near everyone)\n\nChina wants to be the Dominat nation in East Asia. The US disagrees because that would knock Japan of its pedestal.
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To the U.S.A of course they think that China is a threat because Americans dun wanna get robbed of their leading position in military, economics and technology in terms of world standard.\nIn my opinion it will be worse than USA in the sense that it will be less involved in world's politics. For instance poking into other countries business. Then we wouldn't have a WORLD LEADER to lead the world in the so called(right way).You may think that its not good to poke into other people's business but the fact that is that someone must lead the world just like how the father decides in a family otherwise the world will be even more disorganised. Again then China will then be a threat to not only the USA , but also to the WORLD.
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In China, we are more likely to observe a transitional process through a broad spectrum of social arrangements. This will likely move slowly enough to prevent the kind of strife we have observed elsewhere. Expect China to remain mostly socialized for a very long time.
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Public schools are run by liberals.  They can't find China on a map of the world but they feel really good about themselves.
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It is most gratifying to read such an eloquent discourse and I whole heartedly agree with the thrust of your most erudite question. The thing is, bless'em they're a bit brain washed you know and believe that there is a worldwide conspiracy against them. Paranoia indeed! The extreme right wing proclivities of this nation are a great concern to me and it is causing the polarising, divisive and skewed nature of US politics today. Of course, the really worrying trend, is that those that are hurt most by this type of hysterical, disabling, right wing thinking are the ones that rush to it's defence when it's under threat! Presumably out of some misguided sense of loyalty or patriotism. No, I'm afraid you're right, America needs to learn to play nicely and have a bit of humility. Terrorism is in large part a result of this rigid, militaristic, right wing foreign policy she has dished out over the last 5 or 6 decades and I can't see it stopping anytime soon. Jules, lecturer. Australia.
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What is their choice really?  Either they do what China tells them or they offer nothing to the people there.  There is no way for them to improve conditions for the people of China if the government blocks and removes them?  Better to sacrafice and be seen then not sacrafice and be eliminated.  \n\nPeople think there is censorship and a lack of privacy here; have no idea what freedoms they enjoy compared to the people of China.
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The families and relatives of the terrorists would have been slaughtered in horrible raids, and many innocents would have been killed as collateral damage. No one would have questioned China's motives or tactics because, after all, freedom of speech is not a right of the people there. And Chinese leaders do not tolerate criticism too well. \n\nChina may have also seized the opportunity to topple Saddam and seized the oil fields. Their economy is starving for energy. Here is Saddam, there is the oil ... all we need is a bit of an excuse and there he goes and here we go. Michael Moore and others project this motive on the US for going into Iraq. If we really went in there to seize the oil, why can't we get any? Oil prices have surged in the last couple of years, primarily due to China's growing appetite for energy.\n\nI'm not sure China could have taken out Saddam on their own. So maybe that is the only reason they opposed the US for doing it. They wanted the oil for themselves.
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The chineese goverment don't want to solve the human rights issues, and in many cases are the cause of them. They're communists you know?
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usa scared of North Korea :) b'coz it's not poor country such as Iraq or Afghanistan.if usa do something,China erase usa from history,from map,from earth :)
993100
That is a very good question! I have wondered that my self. Be careful now, you know their gonna get mad. I feel I must walk on eggshells around those Libs. But I don't.