@Jack thinks China is going to win the war, and already picking sides. There are...

rtx · on Oct 15, 2020

That's why this election is so important. It will chart our paths for next 100 years.

octoberfranklin · on Oct 15, 2020

If that's true we were already doomed, being given the choice between two very crappy paths.

codecrusade · on Oct 15, 2020

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delfinom · on Oct 16, 2020

It literally won't happen due to MAD. Or rather, the few thousand nukes that'll glass them.

waterheater · on Oct 15, 2020

China wants to, yes, primarily because they can't sustain their population with the farmland they presently have.

However, I am quite interested to watch the PLA--whose soldiers died of starvation three weeks into a battle with Vietnamese peasants--stare eye-to-eye with not just the US military but literally hundreds of millions of gun barrels.

MH15 · on Oct 15, 2020

You do realize how insane it is to cheer for war? A PLA invasion of the US is not "interesting", it's horrifying.

waterheater · on Oct 15, 2020

Where do you see that I want war with the PRC to happen?

maxlamb · on Oct 16, 2020

primarily because they can't sustain their population with the farmland they presently have. Source? Why would all of a sudden China not be able to sustain its population with the current farmland?

waterheater · on Oct 16, 2020

The issue is well-documented. Here's a variety of articles on the issue:

https://moneymorning.com/2017/07/07/why-china-is-snatching-l...

https://time.com/4455462/china-agriculture-food-security/

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-china-has-the-worst-farm...?

http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/02/22/china-syngenta-sm...

delfinom · on Oct 16, 2020

They are having some agricultural yield issues recently due to the the mass flooding and other bad luck that has really added. And of course the right wing brains take that and start spinning stories, just like that dam that was totally going to burst and china was covering up.