China v The US. Do we (the world) need to be worried?

[FBM]

3 way cage fight!

Maybe at first. But North Korea will probably see it as an opportunity to increase their local clout by helping both China and SK against Japan, the only country they hate worse than either the US or SK. But if NK attacks Japan, the US is obligated to step up to defend Japan, and once the US turns Pyungyang into a glass parking lot, China will retaliate and the next thing you know I'll be without broadband internet access.

[pErvinalia]

I don't know why, but for some reason I feel that nuclear war between grown up functioning states (i.e. not including NK) is less likely now than in the cold war. Advanced militaries have far more advanced conventional weapons these days that could do more targeted significant damage without a couple of mil of dead citizens. No one wants their whole country turned into glass.

[Clinton Huxley]

Best thing to do is have the UN assign the whole ruddy area a British Mandate. We will maintain it until the locals are ready for peaceful diplomacy.

[JimC]

FBM wrote:

...the next thing you know I'll be without broadband internet access...

Fuck! I didn't know it was that serious!

Next thing you'll be telling me that the resulting conflagration will disrupt world gin production!

[Clinton Huxley]

Before you know it, the Glorious Glousters will get reformed, just in time to be bombed by the Yanks on the Imjin river.

[Trinity]

What about the Gay Gordons?

[JimC]

I may move to Tasmania...

[JimC]

What about the Gay Gordons?

That's a neat Gordon's gin with a splash of pink liqueur, ain't it?

[Audley Strange]

What about the Gay Gordons?

That's a neat Gordon's gin with a splash of pink liqueur, ain't it?

In one of my old job it was the name of a clique of homosexualist men who were all called, unsurprisingly, Gordon. Not hilarious, but genuinely true.

Wan two three turn, skip two three turn!

[Tyrannical]

I certainly don't trust the Chinese. It was a mistake to ever open trade or travel with them.

[pErvinalia]

Their skin colour is too yellow.

[Clinton Huxley]

I'm surprised Argentian hasn't claimed these rocks. They usually do.

[Svartalf]

They fear China more than Blighty

[Warren Dew]

I certainly don't trust the Chinese. It was a mistake to ever open trade or travel with them.

Why do you give Japan a pass?

[Tyrannical]

I certainly don't trust the Chinese. It was a mistake to ever open trade or travel with them.

Why do you give Japan a pass?

Because I trust the Japanese to do what is best for the Japanese. I distrust the Chinese for the same reason.