WW 3 how about we try to prevent it ?

a reply to: harold223

If this is war, they intend to use them at some point. So we should just sit here and twiddle out thumbs and wait for them to hit us first?

a reply to: openminded2011

It doesn't matter who's the viralblahblahmygyst

it just matters, that we now have these headlines to deal with...
Trump Says China May Be ‘Knowingly Responsible’ for Virus

We just had a MAJOR economic issue, that HASNT ended yet...

In our history, we've seen WARS afterwards, to help handle debt crisis.

Well, Trump is the kinda idiot, that would make the Bush clan, look like tree huggers, just because of the ignorance and lack of strategy involved.

This isn't the kind of talk you'd want to hear, after suffering a major crisis, and it's been the tone, since its all started, is that scary thing.

a reply to: Fallingdown

That alone would affect China greatly. Like you said they are capitalist i’ve even got a nickname I like Capitalommunist . Removing every customer they have would not only irritate the hell out of them . But it’s hard to project force when you have over 1 billion angry citizens that become accustom to Western comforts.

They are a authoritarian capitalist state, they work like one giant corporation. It's interesting how economists look to the US and the west for how to predict what future market systems will look like, yet completely ignore that China has basically achieved such a far advanced capitalist system they don't even know it. All because of that big bad scary word attached to their nations regime.
We have seen this happen before, it was called the East India Company. Portugal was working like that hundreds of years, controlling almost entirely the rum and sugar trade between west Africa, Brazil, and mainland Europe, using muscle and economic might to control a market.
What China is doing is nothing really new.

You made a good point tho, the more they allow freedoms and purchasing power to their growing middle class, the more they will become a consumerist society, if they continue down the same path they are now, we are going to see Hong Kong all over China.
The over the top authoritative socialist society only works if people are working and alienated, and uneducated.

There’s two ways to look at that. The Western world wouldn’t want to do that to the Chinese citizens

Well the way the current anti (insert what ever the US government wants to take down now) propaganda machine is going China seems to be next on the list to get public opinion create the new face of public enemy number one. I mean, what ever happened to Islamic extremism being a top threat?

a reply to: Jay-morris

USD. People don't want to give up their savings. It is a lose-lose war. Keep watching it. "US is longer overdue being screwed over, especially by God."

Too many enemies and corporations owning the planet all because of USA. Everyone tried to run, but the army is mere mercenaries will come and capture you if there is a bounty on your head or your people in villages. The excuse will be using the cops(Interpol). If that doesn't work, alphabet agencies. When that don't work. Mercs are called just like Iraqi War/Libyan war.

Trump wants Taiwan to be heard in the world health organization .

If we don’t recognize Taiwan straight out. This is going to be pretty much the same .