"Keith Willshaw" wrote in
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"Peter Kemp" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:00:50 +0100, Pooh Bear
wrote:

"Thomas J. Paladino Jr." wrote:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ina/tu-22m.htm

Two part question; first, do you think that China will actually
succeed
in
it's acquisition attempts regarding the Backfire, and if so, how
many
would
they end up with?

Irrelevant


Second, what does this mean to the the US?

Bugger all !

China needs the USA ( and the rest of the western world ) to trade
with.
That's
how they are modernising their country via a significant trade
surplus. Otherwise it's back to the paddy fields.

Trade isn't the be all and end all of avoiding war. France was
Germany's biggest trading partner in 1939.


And from June 1940 onwards, the difference is that the West is
unlikely to resume trade with China while a
war is going on.

Keith




These days,with the French and Germans having illegally traded with Iraq,I
would not be so certain that some 'Western' nations would not continue
their trade with red China even if war broke out against Taiwan with the US
supporting Taiwan.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik-at-kua.net