"Demosthenes" wrote in message
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China wants to be close enough to military parity with the
U.S. that
the U.S. would not dare to interfere with it when it attacks
Taiwan.
That will not work.

Of COURSE it will work.


Don't be so sure, it is scary how they know us more than we know ourselves:

Unrestricted Warfare
Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui
(Beijing: PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House, February 1999)
http://www.cryptome.org/cuw.htm

"World's number one," an ideology corresponding to "isolationism," always
makes the Americans tend to pursue unlimited objectives as they expand their
national power. But this is a tendency which in the end will lead to
tragedy. A company which has limited resources but which is nevertheless
keen to take on unlimited responsibilities is headed for only one possible
outcome, and that is bankruptcy.