XPost: soc.culture.china, soc.culture.asian, sci.military.naval   
   From: anfi@wp.eu   
      
   "Byker"  wrote:   
   > "A. Filip"  wrote in message news:anfi+hryqzch05f-l292@wp.eu...   
   >>   
   >> Have you forgotten/forgiven US military in Beijing (1900)?   
   >> Isn't it more relevant *here*?  Do *you* consider it irrelevant old   
   >> history?   
   >> "Remember your falls unless you want to repeat them".   
   >   
   > Seems I remember another Confucian saying: "Too much causes loss of all."   
   >   
   > And Xi and company are going to lose it all when they fuck with the West --   
   > or Russia -- one time too many.   
   >   
   > Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? Because they thought we wouldn't   
   > fight, a lesson the PLA seems to have forgotten...   
      
   Do you expect PRC to be "eager" to risk *unnecessary* escalations of   
   really hand play too early?  PRC is the rising economic superstar.   
   IMHO Key changes in this aspect are "possible but less likely" before   
   PRC reaches half US GDP *per citizen*.   
      
   https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#Speak_softly_an   
   _carry_a_big_stick_(1901)   
   > A good many of you are probably acquainted with the old proverb,   
   > “Speak softly and carry a big stick — you will go far.” If a man   
   > continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save   
   > him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of   
   > the softness there does not lie strength, power.   
      
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