China Threat Debate: Bill Gertz (2 of 11)

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[robertico420]

"the reason China is a threat, is because its ruled by a NUCLEAR dictatorship"

LOL...ie: the US cant control or pressure china into anything XD

For any tyrannical empire, what cant be controlled, is a threat.....lol

[MaLeizi]

I wonder what he actually means by 'China needs democracy'? Does he know what it is exactly?

[srdtpa]

USA  has no moral to talk about democracy, since they helped SO many dictators against democracy.

We all know what this is REALLY about, and is not about any kind of ideology.

At the end of the day, China has a less interventionist foreign policy than USA. and I prefer china's way.

[kamenkojistonira]

Ah just destroy the US already...Im sick of "democracy" and "freedom". Dictatorship ftw. Worked in the Balkans before, will work again.. :P

[sergei91federov]

Funny. In China and Russia, we talk about the USA threat. LOLOL. The USA have military bases all around us. How many do we have around USA? ZERO! Who's the threat?

[powerofthroughts]

Americans are single mind of world domination; this is full of rubbish. china is the main the supporter of the u.s now aday; china bought up all these u.s bonds; this in term given the u.s economy going; it is not chinese interest to destroy America; All these blame is full of no sense;

[Phead128]

@tohjohn1

Agreed.

5000 years of Imperial rule, ended in 1911, cannot be substituted by democracy in any form immediately.

It requires affluent middle class, not like India's democracy with majority poor.

It is only after the manufacturing stage of Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea did they transition from dictatorships into democracies, only when they became advanced economies.

[Phead128]

America, makes a lot of noise, while she is declining.

Ego adjusting needs to accelerate, because at the rate China is growing, Americans are going to be REAL shocked when their nation just overnight becomes 2nd tier fodder to the Chinese superpower.

Don't worry, China has played this Superpower game for centuries, thousands of years before US was even created.

[tohjohn1]

The idea of threat here is this: does China's growth compromise US's position in the world? Yes, of course. Every rising power will change the geopolitical landscape no matter who is rising or who is the current power. It is US insecurities that fuels the idea that a growing China means a dieing US. So as long as US continue to innovate and improve there isn't much a growing China can do to it. Just like in a exam, you don't complain that the other student are too smart, you put in more effort.

[tohjohn1]

The debater above shows key misunderstanding about Chinese society. For thousands of years, China's geopolitical principles stands on 'peoples dictatorship'. To put it simply, as long as the govt provides and takes cares of the ppl sufficiently, the govt is the legitimate ruler of China. This has been so in Imperial China and is so for Communist China. China today cannot afford a democracy. Democracy's key is a strong and affluent middle class, something that China does not have at the moment.

[stealthpakfa]

@myronkelly67

america is a tyranical empire that is hell bend on exterminating the entire human race.

america is like the nazis on steroids.

[stealthpakfa]

@myronkelly67