01-27-2017, 08:49 PM
Quote:They're also directed at America. And at India. And at Japan.
We've seen ample evidence for nationalist animosities directed towards Japan, the Chinese have been stoking the coals on that one for years. America? To a point, in the sense that we are standing in the way of them and their "rightful place in the sun", as it were. India? That's seems less nationalist and more strategic, vis securing their supply line through Pakistan to Gwadar, or fears of encirclement.
Where is the evidence for Russia-China tensions within the past few years? The US and Japan prior to WWII? The US had been denouncing them for years, and slapped an oil embargo on them to boot. The South and the North prior to the Civil War? Bleeding Kandas, the Caning of Charles Sumner, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, there's no need to go on. Israel and Hezbollah? Again, long standing, and it's a conflict that isn't finished.
Wars don't just break out from clear skies. And please don't tell me the most recent thing you've got are the Sino-Soviet split back in the 60s. They actually addressed all of the outstanding border disputes in 2004, starting in the '90s. Putin and Xi Jinping are reportedly quite friendly. I'm not trying to be difficult, where are you seeing this tension building now?
