United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has told a gathering of top security officials he doesn’t see war with China as imminent, nor unavoidable, despite rapidly escalating tensions in the Asia-Pacific region.
Right, but I’m not saying it is. My point is that the fact that someone is challenging American hegemony doesn’t mean there has to be war. There was definitely enough time in which the Soviet Union looked strong and unlikely to collapse to show that.
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That was also true of the Soviet Union, and despite all the close calls and proxy wars the two never quite went to open war with one another
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Is there a reason you keep saying “the” China?
Right, but I’m not saying it is. My point is that the fact that someone is challenging American hegemony doesn’t mean there has to be war. There was definitely enough time in which the Soviet Union looked strong and unlikely to collapse to show that.
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Are you really suggesting that the U.S. will conduct a nuclear first strike against China?
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Okay, then why talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
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