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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 6102593" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>If China had stuck to just manufacturing while being cooperative that would be one thing.  But China has pushed its neighbors around, has stolen proprietary technology, has mass interred a whole ethnic group and forced them to slave labor, has shut out much of its huge market to competition, and has steadily ramped up its military including its nuclear capability.  And yes you can point to U.S. history and say we've done the same on a lot of that.  Difference is our free market has invented much of the technology that allowed the biggest middle class in world history.  China's system puts total control of people's lives in very few hands.  If China becomes the world's dominant power then more and more countries around it will fall into communist rule much in the same way Eastern Europe did after WWII to the Soviet Union.</p></blockquote><p></p>