[jbour13]

Originally Posted by Triman19

nmap and jbour13 I completly agree. One question though, why wouldn't China want to hire locals? It would directly aid in the local economy and would silence naysayers, right? (I don't consider myslef to be naive) Is it woring to say that the US will still benefit from China's aquistion of the metal market, since the US and Chinese trade and benefit directly? Just a thought. Have a good weekend.

It's a matter of trust, of which China has very little. Keep in mind this is the country that closed itself off to outsiders and demanded that emissaries or representatives of foreign governments recognize that the Chinese emperor was higher and to be respected more over their own government heads.

As far as marketing, we are now in this generations "mutually assured destruction" between 2 countries. We need them, they need us. Scariest of all is if China could manage to market it's product base to it's people.

It used to be the cold war, now it's newer and involves an Asian state, a very large and increasingly global state as nmap described.

China does not ever deal well with terrorism. How many acts of terrorism do you hear about? Good control measures of the media, or an understanding from the terrorists POV that they will not succeed without extreme secondary effect.