Blighty, China and Nuclear Power

[Rum]

I will always have at the back of my mind a comment that Mao made way back in the 60s to the effect that China could afford nuclear war because it had so many people it could spare...

[klr]

This is probably different to the quote you're thinking of, but it also sums up Mao:

Let us imagine how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world, and a third could be lost. If it is a little higher it could be half ... I say that if the worst came to the worst and one-half dies, there will still be one-half left, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist. After a few years there would be 2.7 billion people again

[Clinton Huxley]

China also supplied the massive crane being used in the construction of the new aircraft carriers. We are becoming as dependent upon them as we have previously been upon the Merkins.

[klr]

China also supplied the massive crane being used in the construction of the new aircraft carriers. We are becoming as dependent upon them as we have previously been upon the Merkins.

But at least they're still selling you the crane.

There's probably an old Chinese proverb about selling stuff like that to your rival.

[Svartalf]

Yeah, right, and the chinese demand technology transfer if you want to sell anything to them, so that the next batch will be built by Chinese interests with not a verdigrised fen going West, and the third batch will be sold at cut rate prices to emerging countries.

[Svartalf]

Argentina was once considered an "informal" part of the British Empire because we built and owned so much of its infrastructure (railways etc). I guess Blighty will be an informal part of the Celestial Kingdom...

Dunno... serfs groveling at the Celestial gate for crumbs of the Empire's magnificence? Yep, that's how you treated the Argentinians.

[laklak]

Egg Foo Pasties will be the very next rage.

[Atheist-Lite]

Chinese women are the best so long as you don't run a business. Real go'ers.