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Re:When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It... by terasoans on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @06:39PM (#12222070)
The last time China had a huge trade imbalance with a country resulted in the Opium Wars.

I can see why China is so keen on improving their military now.

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Re:When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @07:58PM (#12222416)
But back then China wanted nothing from the rest of the world EXCEPT its silver. So in comes Opium, and then the Opium wars.

These days, I think it is a bit better. At least China wants our airplanes/jet engines. And the ruling class is totally vested in overseas real estate. Military wars are just going to be bad for business at that point.

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