Good argument but except for Yugoslavia, non-military people living in the west today have very little awareness of the horrors of a real war.

Best to be avoided.

Despite the great firewall in China, Chinese people are not stupid and they know that some parts of their government are lying to them. Right now some parts of the Chinese government are very angry with other parts of the Chinese government who totally screwed the pooch on this whole deal. We never may hear of it, but the bulk of the Chinese government does not want to cause a real war nor engage in extended economic warfare.

The thing that the Chinese government fears the most is its own people. China has not and never will win over the whole world with its Chinese system and the government is eventually going to have to placate the Chinese people with a return to some degree of normalcy.

Good argument but except for Yugoslavia, non-military people living in the west today have very little awareness of the horrors of a real war.

Best to be avoided.

Despite the great firewall in China, Chinese people are not stupid and they know that some parts of their government are lying to them. Right now some parts of the Chinese government are very angry with other parts of the Chinese government who totally screwed the pooch on this whole deal. We never may hear of it, but the bulk of the Chinese government does not want to cause a real war nor engage in extended economic warfare.

The thing that the Chinese government fears the most is it own people. China has not and never will win over the whole world with its Chinese system and the government is eventually going to have to placate the Chinese people with some degree of normalcy.