Demography is against China.
stevenlmeyer,
and so is pollution caused by them on western consumer demand & much of it with australian ore & coal.
should make all the Greens feel warm'n fuzzy.

Reg Little,

Your article, similar to previous articles written by you, contains many implied meanings, presuppositions and so on.

Would you please explain what you mean by your assertion that we Westerners do not "comprehend the unspoken code and discreet thought customs" prevalent among Chinese?

Oh I see James O’Neill has not put his money where his mouth is-So where is the "paranoia and rewriting of history" I was accused off?

And Jay Of Melbourne, continues with his support for our enemies of WWII - the Axis.
"Could a regime capable of dropping thermonuclear weapons and incendiaries on defenceless civilians possibly kill millions of non combatants through starvation and slave labour?
Absolutely, it's perfectly plausible if you look at it that "

Hmmm. You praise the Germans who have killed what, 50 million in 2 world wars, including the attempts to exterminate an entire race. You quote the usaul holocaust denier garbage of 1.5 million when the truth is 7 million. You then blame the allies for bombing innocent civilians which again is another lie. The allies never targeted civilians. Yes civilians were killed ion large numbers but the allies knew the way to win th war was to knock out German and Japanese factories. On the other hand your friends, the Germans and especially the Japanese deliberately bombed civilians.

Incidentally let's no mention the 1937 Japanese invasion of China and in particular Nanjing where over 200,000 Japanese civilians were massacred by Japanese troops and where they even used babies for bayonet practice. And lets not mention the Burma Railway or the Battan death march, and there are dozens more examples right here....
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mX6vOjs0X3oJ:members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres_pacific.html+ww+11+japanese+atrocities&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au&source=www.google.com.au

As for the use of the atomic bomb. When the bomb was invented no one really knew just what the effects were. After Okinawa and Iwo Jima where the US had over 200 ships sunk or damaged they knew that the landings in Japan were estimated to cost 1 million allied soldiers lives, because the Japanese population was going to fight to the death. The Japanese were warned that America had this weapon but were ignored and the US dropped the first bomb -so why didn't they surrender right then and there? You can sit smugly,cosy and war and self righteous sipping a latte behind your PC, but if you were one of the tens of thousands of allied troops that had to land on Japanese beaches and endure kamikaze planes and suicide attacks you would not be so smug. Then again by your expressed sentiments you would not have been there anyway because you are obviously a German and Japanese sympathiser and we are the enemy. You would have been shot during the war for the stuff you are spouting, and deservedly so.

And hy should one more allied soldier have died taking Japan? Why should one more allied family have lost their father or son fighting a ruthless barbaric enemy? Japan attacked China and then the US and Britain in an undeclared and unprovoked war, yet you want the allies to fight with kid gloves on and lose hundreds of thousands of troops at least just so you can feel fuzzy and warm.

It’s clear to me Jay that you are completely detached from reality in the real world.

NEWSFLASH to kman and Jay

World War 2 ended 66 years ago. I'll bet neither of you were born during that war. I am certain neither of you remember much about it.

How about you guys stop re-fighting World War 2 and focus on the actual implications for Australia and the Asia Pacific if America does implode. What sort of arms race might the ensuing power vacuum trigger?

Individual

There are whole river systems in China that are so polluted it is unsafe to use their water even for irrigating crops.

I also think at some point other countries will retaliate against China's currency manipulations.

While I am waiting for Reg Little's reply can any Onliners enlighten me as to what these Chinese "unspoken codes and discreet thought customs" comprise?