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I've heard all the yellow peril talk before. It was most notable before 9/11. The liberals were saying "hey, pay attention to the Taliban", but the conservatives were fixated with laser-like precision on China, telling us all how China was about to overrun the African oil fields and the Panama Canal.
Conservatives need an enemy, and China is often a convenient one. The trouble with that is how it takes eyes off the real troubles.
Of course they do.
Anyone that has ever travelled to China and have friends who are Chinese know that modern China has one overwhelming interest.
Commerce.
The above is the typical sort of shallow thinking one sees constantly on this board....and unfortunately much of the thinking that is going on in Washington in regards to China
You know a lot of Chinese people, numbskull? Ever so much as set foot in China?