If you are old enough to remember “the Red Scourge” of the 1950’s then you should recall the “Yellow Peril”…….one was the threat from Soviet Russia and the other was the threat of the Communist Chinese…..
Now with the approach of the 2016 elections….China is once again part of the conversation by the candidates…..mostly they are being warned that we are looking at total defeat at the hands of the Chinese. But how many Americans know enough about China to know what these candidates are talking about?
They understand the loss of jobs (wait I thought those jobs were being taken by illegal immigrants) or that our debt is growing thanks to the Chinese….all are cutsey slogans but how many understand what it is beyond the bumper sticker?
That is okay…all they need to know is that candidate “A” will make them (China) pay……not sure how he/she will accomplish that….but they will pay by damn!
Here’s a crazy idea……why not try to understand the problem (if there is one) before you go off half cocked and pull the trigger on an idiot?
Source: China and the Return of the ‘Yellow Peril’ by Justin Raimondo — Antiwar.com
Our nightmare for the future will be a Russo-Chinese alliance — an alliance that is already showing signs of taking root and which is already patrolling the coastal waters off Alaska.
They may shake hands but they will never be “friends”….
I hope you are right about that. I have worried about it a little bit.
Both are to paranoid over the other for it to ever be a lasting thing….
Thank you, Chuq — there is some comfort in that thought.
You are welcome…..when it was the USSR China was still an opponent and I do not think much has changed…..
My mom has had her eye on China for like ever.
I’m glad someone is watching them closely….the government is not doing so well…