How Long Before Chinese Warships are Docked in Sattahip ?

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3 hours ago, Berkshire said:

Unfortunately, you may be onto something.  China may just prove that a dictatorship/one-party system works better than a true democracy.  The USA doesn't need China to destroy it, America is doing that on its own.  Just look at the deep divisions in the US right now, not to mention in most of Europe.  While the USA bickers with itself, China is busy taking over the third world.  Africa, South America, SE Asia...China's going to own most of these places without their military having to lift a finger.   

It will take a generational change in the Democratic Party leadership to turn itself around, and more reaction from centrist voters to the devisive tactics of the far right. Many of the America's problems have been exacerbated by the Internet, a modern-day Tower of Babble.

 

One thing Democrats and Republicans agree on is that China is a serious threat to the World, not only the US, and Europe is coming around to that thinking despite the temptations of supposedly lucative commerce. The EU recently announced a plan to counter Xi's Belt & Road program. Hopefully, the US will develop more effective development policies in the future as well.

 

People in the Third World are reacting to China's predatory commercial engagement, and the Internet gets the news out, so it will not be so easy for China's commercial hegemonism to continue spreading as rapidly as it had before the Internet was available to local people. The BBC has shown many examples of Chinese exploitation and degradation of the environment and economies in the Third World.