iWolf:

Surely the authorities wouldn't check foreign language traffic coming from G20zhou prior to the event. Would they?

Of course they would. It is their purpose for existing.

expatlife26:

i always have mixed feelings about companies like wal-mart because while they suck they also reflect the trends of the market. Like everybody wistfully talks about the old days of main street mom and pop stores...but the reason those stores went away is that customers preferred to shop at places like wal-mart when given the opportunity. 

So it gets a ton of hate...but then if people didn't basically like the concept of a cheap, kinda shitty store that has everything even though it's staffed by uncompetitive, unmotivated, lowly paid people MORE than the old corner hardware store run by Mr. Johnson who can tell you the right tool for any job.

So I think a lot of the hate should be directed inward. People hate themselves for collectively choosing something cheap and crappy and soulless over something that seems a higher quality, more wholesome option.

Shining_brow:

Thanks RiC! That's the one!!!

Interesting to note, the original was written in 2013. The Daioyu/Senkaku islands thing has been happening, and is likely to escalate. The Spratly's and other SCS areas are likely to escalate (but since China has already started there, we can say they're well ahead of plan). There are movements along the border with India. Taiwan is going to be pressured soon to rejoin... or else!

The only ones that hasn't had any movement towards (that I'm aware of) is Mongolia... and the Russian islands (although, with Korea (both North and South) in the way, not surprising).

Lord_hanson:

This article is too optimistic with no plans for if China faces actual opposition. Most likely a coalition against China would form regardless of who they invade

retiredinchina:

I expect the middle class trap of Brazil, and the demographics of Japan are two future events that will slow down the revenue for such endeavors, never mind the will and strength of the people involved. China has the same problem with Taiwan, what advantage does a college graduate in Taiwan have by wanting to be a part of China. The payoffs to get friends against Taiwan and not to trade with them will dry up when they have to spend it on the unemployed and elderly, and maintaining the future military budgets at the same time. Their trying to do to much too fast and its going to crash all around them, but people in power always think they are the chosen ones and this time it will be different.

silverbutton1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiyang_Shiyou_981_standoff#Vietnam

i seem to remember 40 to 80 Chinese were murdered in Vietnam by Vietnamese.

philbravery:

Vietnam actually won their war with the USA and others.

silverbutton1:

@phil.  Im a bit confused by your comment, as Im trying to find its relevance to mine. Yes, North Vietnamese repelled the "American influence and aggression". And, yes the Vietnamese have had a histroy of being messed with, only to rise up and whoop whomever decides to set foot on their soil, be it French, Chinese, or Americans (within the past century I think).

philbravery:

China has never won a war in the last 100 years The closest they got was a draw in Korea . You cant count ww2 as they had already lost in the 1920s

silverbutton1:

in addition, it was the govt of taiwan that actually repelled the Japs during WW2 on the mainland...not the current regime...

Shining_brow:

We already know some of them to be true... SCS rubbish, the invasion of Taiwan, and there is an arms build-up on the Indian border...

earthizen:

Small fire here and there already. China's real motto is The Sword is Mightier than the Pen.  Thumbs up to those in Argentina and Indonesia who figured this out and took the right action, the kind of action China understands.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2021070-china-security-shots-fired-may-defeat-chinas-strategy-of-maritime-conquest/