re: #108 ericblair

Not outside the realm of possiblity: China is getting pretty frisky with hassling foreign ships in the South China Sea, straight up invading India, and of course threatening Taiwan. They’ve had that border “war” with the Soviet Union in the late 60s. My thought is that they won’t invade because they don’t have to. They’ve bought up a shitload of Siberia and the Russian Far East, and are hauling away all the resources they want without giving a shit about the environmental damage.

If they do invade, I’d expect the US to issue a bland statement about respecting internationally recognized borders and essentially shrug.

Hard to see how Moscow could fight back. They would have to move soldiers they no longer have several thousand miles by rail that could be easily sabotaged. I wonder how North Korea would feel, seein as they are so close?

But I agree that China is likely to get the economic things it needs without a war.