Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "China’s Economy Is Poor, Xi Jinping Is Closing off the Country, Foreign Investment Flees Rapidly" video.

  1. What is this concern for security by these dictators? No one in the rest of the world has any desire, or need, to attack either China or Russia. Russia, at least, has lots of useful natural resources, but the rest of the world would rather buy them rather than take over the country. China, on the other hand, has nothing the world needs. Even those minerals such as rare earths are primarily just refined in China. They don't originate there. Because of China's lax environmental regulation enforcement, the world has simply shipped all that pollution and cost to China. Everything else an industrial country needs, such as iron ore, coal and oil, China has to import. To destroy China one only has to disrupt shipping far from China itself. It wouldn't even take much and there are several countries that could do it. In Russia one would have to control vast territories. In China, it is the vast population that would present a problem. These dictators are the ones who need war. Look at Mao. In the 1950s with the Korean war the Chinese had almost 200K killed and only got back the original borders. In 1962 Mao fought a war against India to cement his power, which was successful in that. Many in India expect the next war for China to be with India in the same general area as the 1962 war. In 1979 China fought a war, their last, with Vietnam and lost. Now, with almost 1B people living in real poverty, China is spending heavily on their military. They actually spend more on internal security. The only country they really have a beef with is Russia, and that country is no longer a threat to China.
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