Why do people constantly say we are afraid of China?

Question

I'll give you the reasons why we are not right now:

1. The Soviet Union had 2,500 missles capable of launching Nukes the U.S. any moment. Chinese ICBM's take hours to launch and they have probably 50 capable of reaching the U.S.. Basicaly we would destroy China before they launched any missles, or if they did lauch all of them could not destroy our country, though ours would wipe them out completely.

2. China's navy and military is not capable of offensive operations around the globe, they could dominate asia, but it would be impossible to launch an attack on the west. The U.S. miltary can strike anywhere in the world.

3. Our allies make U.S.-Sino war undesirable to them, not to mention our economies. It would be a lose lose situation for them.

4. I don't believe we could conquer or occupy china, there military is suited to A) a limited invasion of Taiwan(which they have been preparing for sometime) and B) a war of attrition defending the homeland.

Let me rephrase the asia thing, they could not conquer any nation that had U.S. help, because as I said, there army is not suited to such an operation, Vietnam repulsed a Chinese invasion in 1979.

Im not going to debate economics with you, im refering to militarily and strategically. I do apoligize if I misspelled those.

I left out our missle defense system, and yes we have anti-sattelite missles.

We can also fight them economically, It would hurt them as much or more to damage relations with us.

Lance, very good points, but a full strategic mobilization would eliminate that, we would open and convert factories very quickly in such an event, not to mention a draft, we would also be fighting alongside Japan, and Taiwan(at least most likely) Either way a war is probably never going to happen.

Answer 1

If China "attacked" us economically as lucky said, is that reason to nuke them? If not, how would we fight back?

Answer 2

Lucky S has the gist. To think that the only way of conquering another country is through military force is a bit naïve.

The best and easiest way to take over another country is to take control of its economy. Take a look at how much of our debt China currently owns. The United States dangerously depends upon China for most of our consumer goods.

There’s good reason to fear China and I don’t mean their military. They could take over this country without firing a single shot. Read up on this subject some more. Foreign countries are influencing our own domestic policy because they're that powerful.


Watch the second video, it's long, but a real eye opener.

Answer 3

Because 1. the us army is spread over such a broad area it would be incredibly difficult to mobilize our troops in retaliation to an attack or even an invasion. 2. many of our manufacturing operations arent based on american soil so if say we were to go to war with china it would be very hard to step up our food production to meet the loss of food supplies from china and the likes.

Answer 4

people constantly say "you" are afraid of China because America constantly complains about the actions of other nations and how "bad" they are... like Saddam and Iran... and threaten to invade (or actually do invade) these nations...

when in reality, China is doing much the same as these nations... if not much more in many of the areas that our current leaders complain about...

many people would assume that's "being afraid"... or at the very least "bought off"...

you invade one nation for reason "A"... yet won't even mention it when China is very guilty of offense "A"...

there are more reasons than "fear" to do that ... granted... but some may assume it's due to fear...

Answer 5

its because china has the power to destroy our economy in 30 seconds if they wanted. we owe them so much money that if they were to collect on our debt that our economy would become ridiculously unstable. that would in turn create a global economic crisis. also the value of the dollar would a lot so they wouldn't get a lot of money in reality compared to what they gave us. the only reason that they don't do that is because with exports to the U.S. as high as they are without us there economy would suffer as well.

Answer 6

People are constantly saying we are afraid of China partly because of their economy. China is a fairly new industrialized nation, they beat our prices hands down in cost of labor, and production. Americans are scared that all of our jobs are going to go to countries like China and India because Americans are not willing to do certain jobs especially for the cost that people and China and India are willing to do it for. This is mainly a conservative theory.

Answer 7

Cause they're trying to poison us!

Recall after recall.

Tires
Toothpaste
Lead paint in children's toys.
and the list goes on.......

By the way may I add that people with children who may have been in contact with these toys tainted with lead PLEASE take your kids to the doctor for a simple blood test to check for any damage!!
I have read reports where even one month of exposure to these toxins can cause irreparable
brain damage to children!!

Answer 8

Sorry but I think you are wrong in Some ways , ALL IS true in what you say EXCEPT that they are funded by our consumers money buying JUNK , AND THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US OR THEIR OWN PEOPLE ,, Now they have allot more behind them then you think ,, they could bomb us to the SKY IN A NEW YORK MINUTE.. SO you better start telling people to STOP BUYING ANYTHING MADE IN CHINA ''''NOW ,, They are very rich and I believe more POWER FULL THEN US ..??????/ SO don't think your safe you are not ,,,,,,I have said for the last 7 yrs China will nuke us before we do them ,,, PERIOD .. I know this is NOT what you want to hear ,, but really think about it ,, CHINA IS A **** OF A COUNTRY ,,DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY LIKE US ??????Sorry but they hate us .. or else they would be taking care of the pollution and child abuse etc, they still 5 YRS OLD ''SOLD TO "" TO SEX LABOR LEGALLY,,,, AND WE ARE TO BE THERE TO HAVE THE OLYMPICS ??? EVIL EVIL ,
I am sorry but we need to stop our greed in our country , """""""STOP BUYING MADE IN CHINA ....Martha Stewart wont like it ,,,,,,,,,,But me I love" MADE IN THE USA""..

Answer 9

china can shoot down our military satellites, blinding our military.

they also have subs that we can not detect with sonar.

they are advancing rapidly. maybe some day they will launch a preemptive strike on taiwan.

Answer 10

There are 5 times more chinese people on earth than the united states have inhabitants.