01-27-2017, 05:25 PM
(01-27-2017, 10:19 AM)SomeGuy Wrote: > I still question if that issue is going to be salient within the
> present turning. If it really wanted to directly acquire
> mineral-rich, barely habitable territory, why wouldn't it start
> with, say, Mongolia? Small population, big territory, historic
> claims, lots of resources, no nukes, etc. Going straight for
> nuclear war seems a bit of a drastic step. Even Hitler built up
> to invading Russia gradually, with lots of trial runs in
> Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria, France, Norway, the
> Netherlands...
> A few decades from now, maybe, but not? Color me skeptical.
>
If that's true, then why is China building illegal artificial islands
and military bases in the South China Sea, and why is China
threatening Japan over the Senkaku islands?
