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Growing Pains Create Friction Between China and India

Do you have to trust them to sell them jets? eh... did we trust Saddam? We sold him a lot of nice weapons to fight Iran.


On Oct 27 01:47 PM Michael Clark wrote:

> Russia and China on one side? They couldn't even be on the same
> side when they were both communists nations and both supporting Vietnam
> against America, the Great Satan. There are a LOT of reasons Russia
> is not going to be trusting China very soon.
>
> The polarization coming to Europe is going to be religious-related,
> as the European right begins to grapple with the internal problem
> they have of absorbing millions of Muslims who don't want to become
> European but who want Europe to become Islamic. The Europeans will
> either have to accept Islamization of Western culture or they will
> have to begin deporting Muslims in large numbers. That's quite a
> political and moral dilemma they are going to be facing.

Growing Pains Create Friction Between China and India

India has started to purchase quite a bit of military hardware from the US the past 2-3 years.

Potentially you could have the Russia-China on 1 side, and US-India on the other.


On Oct 26 12:37 PM tripleblack wrote:

> India and China have traded shots before, and might again...
>
> But the sale of munitions and weaponry occurs MUCH more often as
> a response to fear and paranoia than as a precursor to genuine war.
> In this case, it is indeed very likely that the U.S. could make some
> serious dollars selling to both sides, but given the fact that neither
> side has a history of alliance with or purchasing from the U.S. when
> it comes to major arms, we probably will just see the Russians (the
> usual #2 to our #1 ranking in armament sales) get most of the business
> from both sides.
>
> Anyway, I think it far more likely that China and India will fight
> it out in the world's marketplace.

Growing Pains Create Friction Between China and India

I can see that too

How many Americans do we employ in the military? I don't know - has to be a few millions (1? 2?). If not for wars and "peace keeping" that would be a few million more unemployed back in the States.

War is one way to keep people employed I suppose...


On Oct 26 09:23 AM John Galt wrote:

> The biggest fear of mine is the "war stimulus" that we had following
> the Great Depression. Politicans in every country blaming their
> problem on foreigners in other countries, or ethnic or religious
> groups and poof, we have a global conflict.
>
> The average citizen in country A doesn't hate the average citizen
> in country B. The average citizen doesn't want kill and the average
> citizen doesn't want to be killed or have their family killed and
> home destroyed.

Growing Pains Create Friction Between China and India

I think it's a very remote probability anytime soon (i.e. decade+)

It will be something to look out farther as the world population pops north of 8 billion and the major powers of the Earth begin to eye natural resources; in fact I am wondering if a return to "colonialism" might arise if the Malthusian world comes to us.

Carrots are all fine and dandy but if push comes to shove, I expect to see sticks.

Just remember, if all the world consumed like the US we'd need 4 Earth's. So if China and India only consume at the level of say Greece... one of the poorest W. European countries; we have some major issues. 2 billion people living in abject poverty is one thing... if 500M of those move into any sort of middle class over the next 20 years... well let's hope we have some serious efficiency innovations coming our way first.


On Oct 26 07:47 AM dollarandbullions wrote:

> Now the big question is: If an all out war erupts btwn India and
> China, does US stand to gain or lose??