If what Beachy says is true, you have got to give it to the Chinese, they are an industrious mob, not letting the grass grow under their feet. Don't forget they built the 'Great Wall' and invented gun powder, when our ancestors were still looking for a warm cave to live in. Now if that was Aussie's backyard we would be waiting for the Yanks to come in, to dig it up and ship it out, back to Yankeeland! Throwing Aussie no more than a dry bone for our part, as per usual.

The Chinese are the Worlds greatest example of the motto "DO IT YOURSELF", No one but no one, has ever helped China with anything, they have done it all on their own.

Hi Paul1405,

Have you seen the poster: UNCLE MAO WANTS YOU! With a big picture of Zhao Zedong grinning and apparently pointing his finger right at you.

So I assume from the way you write that you'll be cheering on the Chinese if war breaks out over the South China Sea dispute.

Mr O,

No, no, no, I an a pacifists, so I will not be "cheering on" the Chinese, or anyone for that matter in any war. I was stating what is fact. If it came across as pro China, sorry. I could also praise the Yanks for their industriousness and inventiveness. The fact is the Chinese have been at it for about 5,000 years, the Yanks only about 500. Aussie, well, we really haven't open our account as yet, still chewing on that dry bone Uncle Sam threw us back in 1952.

Dear Paul1405,

The Chinese have also been about constructing and maintaining a despotic state and enslaving its peoples for the past few millennia.

The US on the other hand has basically been building the world's greatest democracy and free society ever since its early English plantings in the 17th century.

It's America who has been keeping the totalitarian regimes at bay. WW2 was partly the consequence of America NOT wanting to play the international cop. The US has been trying to maintain world peace since WW2 and all it gets is dirt kicked in its face.

Wait until the Chinese get here. Then you'll start realising how much you have lost. For myself, I hope to be either be dead of old age or able to get asylum in the US.

Mr O,

What can I say, "The home of the brave, and the land of the free".

Just ask the decedents of the 12.5 million slaves, 11 million survived the journey, African Americans, or the few survivors of the 'Indian Wars' which all but destroyed the Native American population. Ask the Hispanics and other minorities, living in the US how well off they are. Its all a win win situation.

p/s Did you learn history by watching re-runs of old John Wayne movies?

Paul,

So as a pacifist you see all wars as being unjustified, so was it not justified to resist Hitler?

"Roll me over, in the clover,
Roll me over....."