why so many ppl think China is a threat to U.S??

Question

why so many ppl think China is a threat to U.S??

Answer 1

Because the US has let all its factories go to rust and buys manufactured goods from China -- even parts of strategic ones.

And the US Treasury is empty: tax cuts for the very rich depleted the Clinton surplus. And the Treasury is borrowing like mad from the Chinese.

Private and corporate Americans are way over their heads in debt, too, much of the debt is owed to foreigners. To keep the dollar high -- now that Sterling and euro interest rates are rising -- the Fed is raising US interest rates too. Somethings gotta give.

The result: depreciation of the dollar, inflation, bankruptcies, house price devaluation (many may find their homes "under water" -- not in Katrina terms but with mortgage more than house value).

Trouble ahead. Buy your wheelbarrow now.

Answer 2

I'm not sure that people believe that the chinese people are a threat. I think we believe the chinese government is a threat. Just think what a great country china would be if the government would allow the people to have more freedoms. Things like speech, free and open voting, the ability to relocate around the country as they wish.... China could be great if the government would just get out of it's peoples way.

Answer 3

China has threatened Taiwan and has supported our real military enemies with military gear. U.S. soldiers have been attacked by weapons only made in the former USSR or China since Vietnam. China also took over Tibet, but would take too much resources for the U.S. to dislodge China from there. China also has managed to become an economic superpower that will surpass the U.S. in its need for resources.

I don't think people in the U.S. expects Chinese soldiers to be roaming U.S. land, but there are sutle ways to destroy the U.S. including easily making things so cheap, the U.S. is unable to sell products to other countries or even buy their own products, arm the U.S. enemies, remove resources for the U.S. to use mass immigration to gain land (like what China is doing in east Asia.).

Answer 4

Mostly Americans see China as a threat. The rest of the world sees China as a trade partner and as the up-coming economic leader of the world. The perception of a threat is propagated by right wing politicians wishing to control the population through paranoia.

Answer 5

Maybe china has the potential to help the rest of the world from being bully by america. if only american realized how much the were hated by so many countries,

China MAY BE a threat to america, but america is already a threat to the rest of the world!

Answer 6

wouldn't you be knowing everything that you buy comes from China? Pretty soon China will be a powerhouse equal or greater than any western power. And China has not forgotten the pains of history. I've spoken with some Chinese businessmen, its a hidden agenda for the collective Chinese to dominate the world so they will NEVER be raped and pushed around by other "powerful" nations ever again.

I think its going to be a showdown between the Jews and the Chinese politically and especially economically.

Answer 7

China is a growing power and will soon be as big as the old USSR was in it's prime. We and china will soon be fighting over ever dwindling resources. This will mainly happen over oil resources and china's wish to be the dominate power in asia. The USA will point to the recent major upgrade and expansion of it's military forces IE the new nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine, new SU-27 fighters capable of fighting F-15, new tanks based on German leopard2 which can fight M1-A2 tank and scarest of all is the advancements in cruise missile technology. All this gives a strong impression that china is gearing up for a fight.

Answer 8

DrWhy.. you need to get your head out of your butt.

Is China a threat? Now or 10 years from now? Now, not really, just a concern. Ten years from now? If they continue following the path they are on, I'd say yes.

The following article says it all.. Following are some excerpts of the article..

The Threat Is Real

By Bill Gertz
web posted November 6, 2000



A fundamental lesson of the twentieth century is that democracies cannot coexist indefinitely with powerful and ambitious totalitarian regimes. Sooner or later the competing goals and ideologies bring conflict, whether hot war or cold, until one or the other side prevails.

The history of the China threat and how it grew stronger through the misguided policies of the Clinton-Gore administration are undeniable. While his predecessors in the Oval Office share the blame, the magnitude of the Clinton-Gore administration's missteps, fumbling, and outright appeasement is in a class by itself. The result has been that the United States has actually helped in the creation of a new superpower threat to world peace and stability in the decades to come. Business groups have played a key role in playing down the China threat. Their argument is that free trade will not only help China evolve peacefully, but will actually undermine the communist system. But the evidence from trade with Beijing over the last two decades shows that China today is less free and more threatening than it was before the United States established formal government-to-government relations in 1979. Free trade has not worked. A prosperous middle class in China is emerging, but there is no sign it will lead the government toward democratic reform.

Those who insist, ignorantly or deliberately, that China is not a threat put great faith in the supposedly democratizing effect of increased trade with the West. Unhappily, there is little evidence that the Beijing dictatorship has been undermined by such trade. The growth of prosperous coastal cities has not alleviated the poverty of rural China. The levers of power that keep the Party in control remain unchanged and unreformed. The permanent normal trade status granted to China in 2000 by Clinton and Congress will do little to liberate the Chinese people or lessen Beijing's threat to the West. To the contrary, the Clinton policy of conciliation has only increased the danger. Perhaps the greatest failure of the Clinton appeasment policy was a moral one: its betrayal of the long-suffering Chinese people. It is a dictatorship with no regard for human life. The human toll of the Chinese Communist regime is almost beyond imagining, despite attempts by some academics and other apologists to ignore or minimize the slaughter. As long ago as 1971 in a study done for Congress, Professor Richard L. Walker, in "The Human Cost of Communism in China," noted that Beijing was responsible for the deaths of between 34.3 million and 63.8 million people. The figures can no longer be dismissed as those of a Cold War anticommunist. A 1999 estimate by European historian Jean-Louis Margolin confirms Walker's figures. Margolin stated that Chinese communism cost the lives of 44.5 million to 72 million people from repression, famine, executions, and forced labor.

The central question underlying the China threat is whether the Beijing regime, direct heirs of those who sacrificed so many millions of their countrymen at the altar of a false god, can be reformed by exposure to the civilizing influence of the West. Bill Clinton believed they could. His biggest mistake was to treat the Beijing government as just another foreign government, no different or worse than a noncommunist dictatorship. The problem is that China's patient communist rulers have a strategy that stretches over the next several decades. They rightly regard the United States as their main enemy and the primary obstacle to China's achievement of world status and Pacific domination.

Answer 9

Becoz USA cannot simply attack and defeat China like they could do to Iraq, Afghanistan and even Iran. The China definetely have the nuclear capability which can strike any part in America as a preventive measures. The China would not hesitated to use it if He been attack by the USA. So the USA cannot threat China to follow their order or been attack by the USA like they did to Iraq.

Answer 10

Taiwan. Also known as the other China. Compare People's Republic of China (China) to the Republic of China (Taiwan). China wants the splinter island country of Taiwan to be reincorporated into the mainland. Taiwan wants to remain independent and non-Communist. US backs Taiwan because of our "We don't like Communists" stance (another reason they're a threat), but we don't back them too much to try and avoid a war.

Also, they are an economic giant that rivals the US on the global stage and we don't like countries that get bigger than us.

That's a brief simplification of a highly complex issue.