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api_or_ipa
I despise the recent sentiment that a war with China is imminent and unavoidable. Have we truly tried everything short of banning TikTok and preparing for an invasion of Taiwan?
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stcroixx
The 1.8 million people that have been in concentration camps for a decade now don't have time for 'everything' to be tried.
JPLeRouzic
I doubt that a war with China is really motivated by high moral goals. For me, it's much more a struggle for economic and military supremacy.

Today's China was built for decades by the USA. It was convenient to export pollution and import ultra-cheap stuff made possible by slave labor.

bioemerl
The imminence comes from the China side where their point of view is "we take Taiwan and claim the south china sea and we will go to war to do it".

There are no options with which to avoid war but make sure we are so constantly one step ahead of China that they never decide to wage it.

The TikTok ban and preparations, in this case, help to prevent war.

nradov
What would you propose to try?

The focus should be on containment and conventional deterrence. Build an alliance to isolate, undermine, impoverish, and humiliate China at every turn. Build up enough advanced weapons to wreck the PLAN if they try to seize more of the first island chain.

jmakov
How to convince our peasants to support our war.
cjbenedikt
Constant war mongering regarding China doesn't really help. Which countries has China attacked or invaded over the course of the last 50 years and how many the US? China is a new powerful nation.Change in "leadership" has happened over many centuries. Just get on with it
simonblack
The US of 2023 is NOT the US of 1942. China is today's US of 1942. They have a huge manufacturing capacity.

Without spending ten to 20 years (at least) in rebuilding America's manufacturing capacity to match China's, the US should just refuse any war with China.

Remember how Germany ended up in their 1941-1945 war with the Soviets? That will be America's future in a war with China.

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