RE: China treating Uighur Muslims like Tibetans?
July 14, 2014 at 4:36 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2014 at 4:38 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 14, 2014 at 4:25 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Is that what happened last time? Who did they buy those weapons from? I know, I know, it's unthinkable and shitty.......but it's there, and people might talk a big game about what they would do (if we went nuke happy)...but we have all evidence to the contrary. Which is also shitty, yes.
Yes, to the best of everyone's ability, witness Soviet Union, Britain, then France. Don't forget Italy, west Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Japan all had serious nuclear weapon programs up until early 1960s. But last time the US had 60% of the world's economy.
This time 20%. With China soon to have a larger share. China has the indistrual and technological capacity to match us in nuclear arsenal if they feel that to be required. Right now they have a negligible strategic nuclear arsenal. They feel they are in no danger of nuclear strike from the US, even in a war, because they themselves poses a minimum of nuclear threat to the US. If the US launch a nuclear strike out of the blue against taliban, very likely the Chinese would now see it as mandatory to have the ability to deal as much nuclear destruction on the US as the US could on China just to forestall a comparable treatment by the US on china.
Is that what we want?
