What might you all thing will happen if China becomes the modern day "Soviet Union"?

Question

These past few years, China has been developing very fast. They are communist, yet we are friends with them and still trade with them. If they become like the Soviet Union was, how would you think this might affect our economy, due to the fact that China is a major import/export country, and if they do become like the Soviet Union, how would you think we could deal with this matter?

Answer 1

1. China is buying most of our debt.

2. We have a huge trade deficit with China

If China became like the Soviet Union, it would be hard for Americans for awhile. But once we start building companies that manufacture the stuff that we currently buy from China, America would be back on the right path.

Answer 2

Is this a trick question? There is no modern day Soviet Union. If it isnt then:

China has already started to make, somewhat aggressive, moves that directly conflicts with US policy. Such deals with countries like Venezuela and Iran have started to split the global stage into two factions. However the US and USSR competed on the principle of spreading their form of government across the world. The conflict was over influencing other countries governments to adopt either communism or democracy.
China, while communism, has no desire to spread communism nor defeat capitalism. Instead China only wishs to enable itself to compete at the global stage (ie secure resources and build army). Also China and the US are tightly wounded in trade. The US have a large deficit of trade with China. This means that the government be in debt (leading to inflation and lower standards of life) if China was to demand payment. Why doesnt China do this? China obviously depends on the US for trade. The US is a huge market to export Chinese products. So therefore the Chinese would hurt their economic growth by "hurting the US" economically or through warfar.

Answer 3

China unfortunately owns the United States. They can control our economy. If they held a fire sale of our T-Bonds they would destroy whatever value the dollar has left. They would do themselves in economically. One of the ideas about control is that the creditor has power over the debtor. Well the debtor also has power over the creditor. If the debtor chooses to default then the creditor stands to lose. Well the United States is the debtor in this case. But our power stands in an inferior position at this point in time. China will not become as the Soviet Union was. They stand too much to lose. We, in default, would collapse their economy. Of course the standard of living here would become third world when (not IF) we do so.

Answer 4

China is communist only because of its history under Mao. In recent decades it has taken a course of unbridled capitalism. And interesting combination.
I can foresee China being a hazard in the future. It seems to have few principles, but this may be the result of rapid change. It may stabilize. Anyway, spreading communism doesn't seem to be on their agenda.
Although we do a huge amount of trade with China, they have no qualms about trading with our enemies also. Perhaps they will do whatever is most profitable (trade with the West, of course) or perhaps other agendas will develop. I was interested to see that China has banned pig images in TV "Year of the Pig" advertisements, "out of respect for Islam." The Chinese Muslim minority (2% of the population) apparently didn't ask for this, and has never felt offended by pig images, so why did China do this? Are they trying to impress some foreign Muslim extremists? I wonder.
I'd say we need to watch China closely and to keep improving relations with them if we can.

Answer 5

Economically, if the Federal government of the United States doesn't protect our industrial base with tariffs, the war's over before it starts. A modern country cannot equip its military or support its public population without factories and jobs.

The only way to take on a 220,000,000 man standing army is with nukes. No country can fight a conventional war against China and hope to survive without resorting to nukes to offset the numbers advantage.

The Soviet Union was never the threat the Chinese represent.

Answer 6

China will not continue with a Communist philosophy. They need to dramatically improve their economy and this can only be done with capatitalist concepts. They are fast moving in that direction. They have a significant work force that needs jobs and they can produce the cheapest products to sell to the world. Yes, they will be a challenge to the United States, but we need tokeep working with them, not against them unless it becomes absolutely necessary.

Answer 7

The National Security Agency (NSA) has sufficient resources to answer this intelligently. I would hope that they look at this question and use it to help shape World policy to ensure it doesn't happen.

Please help to establish a large, diverse, & representative ethical oversight committee for managing the National Security Agency (NSA)

The National Security Agency (NSA) by necessity currently collects information from ALL organizations without representative ethical oversight. This includes the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, National Guard, ALL Political Representatives, FEMA, Greenpeace, the Medical Community, Insurance Companies, Research Groups, domestic or abroad, ...

Unfortunately, special interest groups not representing All Americans currently have access to direct and use Confidential data collection; which affects everyone, not just the US. Imagine large corporations influencing the prosperity of businesses based upon racial criteria; the NSA makes this possible.

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The NSA currently does not have a system (people and software) to parse the great amounts of information available to create prioritized situational awareness for the benefit of "representative ethical oversight". Imagine a corporation influencing all that is associated with a University research project, to force access, or force a sale of intellectual property at a significantly lower cost. Now expand the ability of this corporation to influence all businesses, everywhere.

Please support my initiative to establish a large and diverse representative ethical oversight committee for monitoring and managing the NSA.

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Respectfully,

James Dunn

Answer 8

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Answer 9

China has no friends. They just tolerate others unless you're stupid enough to screw with them. I think in the future they will absorb Taiwan and Korea but for some reason they sorta fear Japan. Japan is a peaceful nation these days but they can be one hell of a fighting machine if needed as history shows.

Answer 10

Their ideology is not the issue - it's their huge population and their seemingly limitless need for resources.
Are the Chinese going to look inward and "reduce, reuse, recycle" and obtain their needs by trade, or are they going to grab what they need from their neighbors by force?
1.2 Billion population makes them seem like an insurmountable foe, but I know most of Western Europe and even Russia would be on our side. Taiwan would be a fortress bristling with guns, making a Chinese invasion miserable. Japan and Vietnam would be allies, too.