**** China

[tony]

Lets not be stupid now, China has one of the largest (if not the largest) military in the world, with our resources stretched to Iraq would the U.S really try to push its weight around with China?

Matt (halfbaked) hit the nail on the head, who are we to assume or expect aid from them?

The falling value of the U.S dollar will bring back jobs to the U.S, as long as inflation does not get out of hand a less valuable dollar isn't always a bad thing.

[nreggie454]

Lets not be stupid now, China has one of the largest (if not the largest) military in the world, with our resources stretched to Iraq would the U.S really try to push its weight around with China?

Matt (halfbaked) hit the nail on the head, who are we to assume or expect aid from them?

The falling value of the U.S dollar will bring back jobs to the U.S, as long as inflation does not get out of hand a less valuable dollar isn't always a bad thing.

China might have a bigger army, but I bet that we could mobilize a much bigger force than they could in a short amount of time.

I kinda think that China might have a couple of its super-secret megastealth subs in that harbor and don't want anybody peeking around. It really wouldn't surprise me if there happened to be a couple guys on the Kitty Hawk who might have wanted to take a quick gander at them without the Chinese knowing.

Also, I just talked with this guy who read a couple books on the whole WW3 issue, and a lot of them predict that if one country's currency (or the Euro) raises significantly higher than other nation's currencies (or one drops a lot), the little guys might get jealous and start launching missiles. Next, everybody puts all of their missiles in the air against everybody else, and after that, say goodbye global warming and hello nuclear winter.