How do we know the war is coming in the first place?
Because the advertising for it is out.
Amongst plenty of other evidence, one Chinese front organisation conducted a poll on Australian attitudes to the ANZUS treaty and a Chinese attack on Japan. Why would they conduct such a poll unless they are going to attack Japan?
Not that they were interested in the results as such.
They just wanted to be able to publicize the poll in order to try to keep Australia on the sidelines of their war.
The war will have two functions for China.
Firstly, it will provide legitimacy for the regime as economic growth stalls.
Secondly, the Chinese will have pride in humiliating their neighbouring countries, and the United States, by defeating them in battle and creating no-go zones in the oceans which other countries won’t be able to enter without Chinese permission.
The war will have nothing to do with oil and gas resources under the seabed and securing sea-lanes. The Chinese have never offered those excuses for their behavior themselves.
The excuses are the creation of Western pundits for something that otherwise is stupid, destructive, and primitive.
Some have seen this war coming well in advance.
In 2005, Robert Kaplan wrote an article entitled How We Would Fight China.
In it he notes that China will approach the war “asymmetrically, as terrorists do.
In Iraq the insurgents have shown us the low end of asymmetry, with car bombs.
the Chinese are poised to show us the high end of the art.”
Read on and worry:
Not that they were interested in the results as such.
The war will have two functions for China.
Firstly, it will provide legitimacy for the regime as economic growth stalls.
Secondly, the Chinese will have pride in humiliating their neighbouring countries, and the United States, by defeating them in battle and creating no-go zones in the oceans which other countries won’t be able to enter without Chinese permission.
The war will have nothing to do with oil and gas resources under the seabed and securing sea-lanes. The Chinese have never offered those excuses for their behavior themselves.
The excuses are the creation of Western pundits for something that otherwise is stupid, destructive, and primitive.
Some have seen this war coming well in advance.
In 2005, Robert Kaplan wrote an article entitled How We Would Fight China.
In it he notes that China will approach the war “asymmetrically, as terrorists do.
In Iraq the insurgents have shown us the low end of asymmetry, with car bombs.
the Chinese are poised to show us the high end of the art.”
Read on and worry:
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