Quote from: AnonMessAgeSage on January 15, 1975, 03:46:50 PM
Slight exaggeration about China making everything, but not quite a stretch.
China is forced to tariff, to cover the costs of production. Because their economy is a slowed growth, but Chinese are a very mathematical people.
When you put it all together, it would not surprise me if their analysts did not anticipate this coming.
Even if this eventually boils to a world war, which I believe it will, they're better suited for that even because they have 1.5 billion people.
My personal theories on the matter: If I am to be totally blunt, I anticipate a world war of unimaginable proportions awaiting us in the somewhat near future.
Say it ain't so, but the chips do seem to be heading in this direction.
I think manufacturing is now global, shoes from Vietnam, clothes from Bangladesh... Car manufacturing still occurs in Europe, and there are plenty of other areas where China doesn't dominate, such as food production. I think because they do dominate tech it seems they perhaps do make 'everything'. But no more than Japan maybe post WW2... or the UK during the beginning of the industrial revolution.
As for a world war, from what cause and between what nations. I guess China and the USA. Maybe Putin's Russia and the USA. But I cant see any suitable cause. China depends on exports, if it raises tariffs then production could simply switch to say India... The two world wars in which WW2 was in part the continuation of WW1, was about newer nations seeking colonialization and resources, as well as the collapse of old empires. China has I think adopted a non military route in this, its very much involved with Africa. The military option seems to have been replaced by the economic route. We have the scenarios of Germany, Italy, and Japan trying the former and failing. And of course the USA in Vietnam.
I guess the only other motivation is religious fundamentalism, in the middle east, Israel and its neighbours. How this would become global I cant see. China isn't involved? So would need to be Russia - USA. Again maybe Iran getting involved? But Israel seems to be capable of survival without *explicit* aid. Off topic!
Armageddon is maybe (death) wishful thinking?