Will China invade Taiwan?

[Michael Z]

Curious as to what yall think.  I say Yes/2006, maybe 7 if they have to deal with NK 1st.

You really can't wait for an all-out war in the Far East, can you?

[Michael Z]

Curious as to what yall think.  I say Yes/2006, maybe 7 if they have to deal with NK 1st.

You really can't wait for an all-out war in the Far East, can you?

I just want to see those countries corrected; if that means war, then absolutely.

The question is "if". War would cause more problems than it would solve.

[Michael Z]

Curious as to what yall think.  I say Yes/2006, maybe 7 if they have to deal with NK 1st.

You really can't wait for an all-out war in the Far East, can you?

I just want to see those countries corrected; if that means war, then absolutely.

The question is "if". War would cause more problems than it would solve.

No, war would eliminate it.

How?

[Michael Z]

Curious as to what yall think.  I say Yes/2006, maybe 7 if they have to deal with NK 1st.

You really can't wait for an all-out war in the Far East, can you?

I just want to see those countries corrected; if that means war, then absolutely.

The question is "if". War would cause more problems than it would solve.

No, war would eliminate it.

How?

The same way "bad" Japan was eliminated.

Not all conflicts are the same, and it would be a gross oversimplification to suggest otherwise. Modern China cannot in any way be compared to Japan in the 1930s/1940s, ditto North Korea, not to mention the knock-on effects it would cause. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked on the back of a six-year long conflict - an attack on China, Taiwan or NK now would actually cause another lengthy conflict (and one which may be considerably more damaging, given that nuclear weapons now are several times more powerful than what landed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki). I could go on and on, but point being, there is a myriad of differences.

[Michael Z]

No, war would eliminate it.

How?

I assume he's using the war in Iraq as a point of reference; as we all know, freedom and democracy have blossomed across the Middle East since 2003. Why wouldn't that work in China?

China is not a religiously divided country.  They all pretty much agree that Comm. is bad for them, and those who want it would be killed fighting in the war.

China is no longer a Communist country - it started embracing the free market in the 90s (which is why it's well on its way of being the 2nd richest nation on Earth).

Sure, China has an abysmal human rights record, and freedom of speech is limited, it's a totalitarian one party state, etc, etc... but point being, it is no longer Communist, at least not the way the USSR or Cuba was/is.