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ShoCkeyy
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
7815 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-01-24 16:18:06
January 24 2017 16:16 GMT
#132721
Of course China would blink first, didn't they just make their first aircraft carrier not to long ago? While we have "19" or "10" which ever way you look at it, plus what ever ally would back us up in the area. It's suicide from a Chinese standpoint to try and "wage war" at sea with the worlds biggest naval force...

As for going to war, maybe that's Trumps way of "creating" jobs - because he's definitely cutting back a lot of the spending the US has been doing outside of the country.
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Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
January 24 2017 16:17 GMT
#132722
On January 25 2017 00:56 Mohdoo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2017 00:34 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On January 25 2017 00:29 Mohdoo wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:55 LegalLord wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:34 xDaunt wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:27 LegalLord wrote:
I really don't know if Trump has a working strategy for containing China. At this point I think we're looking at a clash of arms - in which we will find out if the Chinese government cares enough about its territorial claims to aggressively defend them.

I'm not sure that Trump really intends to contain China so much as he wants to get as much stuff on the table as possible before he starts negotiating trade deals with China. This would be more in line with his stated priorities from the campaign and during the lame duck season.

At this point, with his advocacy of aggressive actions that China calls a declaration of war, Trump is testing whether or not China would be willing to put military force behind its territorial claims - and engage the US military if necessary. And I can say that I simply don't know if China is willing to do that. Their military strength has made leaps and bounds in recent decades, but they are still extremely wary of deploying beyond their borders, challenging any other military that could fight back, or hindering their economy. But if it turns out that China isn't bluffing about how serious it is about protecting its territorial claims, that will either lead to escalation or a pathetic-looking withdrawal. Both would look utterly terrible for the US.


China trying to challenge the US at sea would be suicide and Trump knows it. I don't think there is any way that an actual military conflict for the south china sea would go well for China. At the end of the day, we can crank it up significantly more than they can. They have a bright military future, but they aren't close to there yet.


Why bother trying to win a direct fight? They bring media on ships along with hundreds of fishing boats and start live telecast when Trump's ships comes into view. Share the news worldwide with the headline "Americans attack fishermen"


I would not give a flying fuck, as a generally anti-war American. Chinese dominance, no matter how you look at it, needs to be prevented from an American global power perspective. If Trump makes a fight out of the area, and goes way overboard such that China knows it would be madness to make a big deal out of, suddenly the US is big dog of the area.


It's not a hard sell for China to paint trump as a narcissist who wants to control absolutely everything--possibly the world. Especially if they show videos of American ships attacking fishing boats.
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18821 Posts
January 24 2017 16:23 GMT
#132723
Democrats have successfully further delayed the confirmation of Jeff Sessions for Attorney General.
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain17956 Posts
January 24 2017 16:28 GMT
#132724
On January 25 2017 00:34 Doodsmack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 24 2017 13:44 Doodsmack wrote:
On January 24 2017 12:44 Nevuk wrote:


Fortunately most of the outright fabrications are only related to Trump's ego/the media rather than policy. Hopefully, it stays that way.


Maybe I was wrong, and it's just a complete dupe job by Trump against his voters.


There's something wrong with that graph, though. There's spikes exactly every 10 years since 1960. Clearly something funky happening with the data set, so not quite sure how much stock I put in the data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Logo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States7542 Posts
January 24 2017 16:29 GMT
#132725
On January 25 2017 01:28 Acrofales wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2017 00:34 Doodsmack wrote:
On January 24 2017 13:44 Doodsmack wrote:
On January 24 2017 12:44 Nevuk wrote:
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/823700047938338816


Fortunately most of the outright fabrications are only related to Trump's ego/the media rather than policy. Hopefully, it stays that way.


Maybe I was wrong, and it's just a complete dupe job by Trump against his voters.

https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/823603910145413120

There's something wrong with that graph, though. There's spikes exactly every 10 years since 1960. Clearly something funky happening with the data set, so not quite sure how much stock I put in the data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.


Census.
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farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18821 Posts
January 24 2017 16:30 GMT
#132726
The Federal Reserve Banks oftentimes lack insight, but their data tends to be pretty solid.
"when the Dead Kennedys found out they had skinhead fans, they literally wrote a song titled 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off'"
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands21592 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-01-24 16:33:48
January 24 2017 16:33 GMT
#132727
That image is one as a % of total (non-farm)workforce

Vox had one with total numbers and they blame the Census for the spike aswell
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It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
ShoCkeyy
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
7815 Posts
January 24 2017 16:38 GMT
#132728
As one of those Census employee (I make and extra 6k on the side for walking and talking to people, great gig) - it's definitely because of that.
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LegalLord
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
United Kingdom13775 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-01-24 16:40:16
January 24 2017 16:39 GMT
#132729
On January 25 2017 01:02 Mohdoo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2017 00:59 LegalLord wrote:
On January 25 2017 00:29 Mohdoo wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:55 LegalLord wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:34 xDaunt wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:27 LegalLord wrote:
I really don't know if Trump has a working strategy for containing China. At this point I think we're looking at a clash of arms - in which we will find out if the Chinese government cares enough about its territorial claims to aggressively defend them.

I'm not sure that Trump really intends to contain China so much as he wants to get as much stuff on the table as possible before he starts negotiating trade deals with China. This would be more in line with his stated priorities from the campaign and during the lame duck season.

At this point, with his advocacy of aggressive actions that China calls a declaration of war, Trump is testing whether or not China would be willing to put military force behind its territorial claims - and engage the US military if necessary. And I can say that I simply don't know if China is willing to do that. Their military strength has made leaps and bounds in recent decades, but they are still extremely wary of deploying beyond their borders, challenging any other military that could fight back, or hindering their economy. But if it turns out that China isn't bluffing about how serious it is about protecting its territorial claims, that will either lead to escalation or a pathetic-looking withdrawal. Both would look utterly terrible for the US.


China trying to challenge the US at sea would be suicide and Trump knows it. I don't think there is any way that an actual military conflict for the south china sea would go well for China. At the end of the day, we can crank it up significantly more than they can. They have a bright military future, but they aren't close to there yet.

China couldn't win outright - but they might be willing enough to crank it up to the point that the US decides it isn't worth losing multiple carriers, their crew and cargo, and a vast quantity of miscellaneous military hardware to fight over a few (important, but not that important) islands.

The real issue is that I don't really know if they are - and I don't think the US leadership knows either. China is quite assertive about its South China Sea ventures but I simply don't know how willing they are to put their money where their mouths are.


China is doing well at doing exactly what they are doing, but they are clearly walking a very tight rope in many respects. While I do not claim to be a military expert, my understanding of China's military leads me to believe that is is mostly hollow at this point when it comes to actual conflict. I definitely think China would blink first.

I'll link this as a pretty well-considered discussion of where China's military is and isn't up to par.

Long story short: if I had to bet one way or the other, I would indeed bet that China would blink first. But I'm not sure I would bet on it given that we do have a choice.
History will sooner or later sweep the European Union away without mercy.
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain17956 Posts
January 24 2017 16:41 GMT
#132730
On January 25 2017 00:56 Mohdoo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2017 00:34 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On January 25 2017 00:29 Mohdoo wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:55 LegalLord wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:34 xDaunt wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:27 LegalLord wrote:
I really don't know if Trump has a working strategy for containing China. At this point I think we're looking at a clash of arms - in which we will find out if the Chinese government cares enough about its territorial claims to aggressively defend them.

I'm not sure that Trump really intends to contain China so much as he wants to get as much stuff on the table as possible before he starts negotiating trade deals with China. This would be more in line with his stated priorities from the campaign and during the lame duck season.

At this point, with his advocacy of aggressive actions that China calls a declaration of war, Trump is testing whether or not China would be willing to put military force behind its territorial claims - and engage the US military if necessary. And I can say that I simply don't know if China is willing to do that. Their military strength has made leaps and bounds in recent decades, but they are still extremely wary of deploying beyond their borders, challenging any other military that could fight back, or hindering their economy. But if it turns out that China isn't bluffing about how serious it is about protecting its territorial claims, that will either lead to escalation or a pathetic-looking withdrawal. Both would look utterly terrible for the US.


China trying to challenge the US at sea would be suicide and Trump knows it. I don't think there is any way that an actual military conflict for the south china sea would go well for China. At the end of the day, we can crank it up significantly more than they can. They have a bright military future, but they aren't close to there yet.


Why bother trying to win a direct fight? They bring media on ships along with hundreds of fishing boats and start live telecast when Trump's ships comes into view. Share the news worldwide with the headline "Americans attack fishermen"


I would not give a flying fuck, as a generally anti-war American. Chinese dominance, no matter how you look at it, needs to be prevented from an American global power perspective. If Trump makes a fight out of the area, and goes way overboard such that China knows it would be madness to make a big deal out of, suddenly the US is big dog of the area.


Clearly anti-America propaganda is not so much aimed at America, but rather at everybody who doesn't have an axe to grind. Clearly Indonesia, Japan, India and other interested nations without a direct claim to the area will not take kindly to American adventurism.

For starters, what is America doing in the South China Sea? Nominally protecting the rights of Vietnam, Phillipines, etc. who cannot make a fist against China, but clearly gunning down fishing boats is not something that the American navy should be doing in the South China Sea.

And at the end of the day, you have your navy in the South China Sea. Any potshot the Chinese can take from far nearer to home than you are, is a victory against the imperialist oppressors who are far from home occupying a sea that has nothing to do with them. I honestly don't see how a naval war near China can go well.

Sure, you can dominate them at sea, but what good does it do? Expends huge amounts of money, generates vast amounts of negative publicity and gets you absolutely nowhere strategically.
ShoCkeyy
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
7815 Posts
January 24 2017 16:46 GMT
#132731
On January 25 2017 01:41 Acrofales wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2017 00:56 Mohdoo wrote:
On January 25 2017 00:34 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On January 25 2017 00:29 Mohdoo wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:55 LegalLord wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:34 xDaunt wrote:
On January 24 2017 23:27 LegalLord wrote:
I really don't know if Trump has a working strategy for containing China. At this point I think we're looking at a clash of arms - in which we will find out if the Chinese government cares enough about its territorial claims to aggressively defend them.

I'm not sure that Trump really intends to contain China so much as he wants to get as much stuff on the table as possible before he starts negotiating trade deals with China. This would be more in line with his stated priorities from the campaign and during the lame duck season.

At this point, with his advocacy of aggressive actions that China calls a declaration of war, Trump is testing whether or not China would be willing to put military force behind its territorial claims - and engage the US military if necessary. And I can say that I simply don't know if China is willing to do that. Their military strength has made leaps and bounds in recent decades, but they are still extremely wary of deploying beyond their borders, challenging any other military that could fight back, or hindering their economy. But if it turns out that China isn't bluffing about how serious it is about protecting its territorial claims, that will either lead to escalation or a pathetic-looking withdrawal. Both would look utterly terrible for the US.


China trying to challenge the US at sea would be suicide and Trump knows it. I don't think there is any way that an actual military conflict for the south china sea would go well for China. At the end of the day, we can crank it up significantly more than they can. They have a bright military future, but they aren't close to there yet.


Why bother trying to win a direct fight? They bring media on ships along with hundreds of fishing boats and start live telecast when Trump's ships comes into view. Share the news worldwide with the headline "Americans attack fishermen"


I would not give a flying fuck, as a generally anti-war American. Chinese dominance, no matter how you look at it, needs to be prevented from an American global power perspective. If Trump makes a fight out of the area, and goes way overboard such that China knows it would be madness to make a big deal out of, suddenly the US is big dog of the area.


Clearly anti-America propaganda is not so much aimed at America, but rather at everybody who doesn't have an axe to grind. Clearly Indonesia, Japan, India and other interested nations without a direct claim to the area will not take kindly to American adventurism.

For starters, what is America doing in the South China Sea? Nominally protecting the rights of Vietnam, Phillipines, etc. who cannot make a fist against China, but clearly gunning down fishing boats is not something that the American navy should be doing in the South China Sea.

And at the end of the day, you have your navy in the South China Sea. Any potshot the Chinese can take from far nearer to home than you are, is a victory against the imperialist oppressors who are far from home occupying a sea that has nothing to do with them. I honestly don't see how a naval war near China can go well.

Sure, you can dominate them at sea, but what good does it do? Expends huge amounts of money, generates vast amounts of negative publicity and gets you absolutely nowhere strategically.


It really depends though, you're saying this as if you know for sure India, Indonesia and Japan don't want us there. In my opinion, they do want us there because of how aggressive China has become claiming waters that clearly isn't their right to claim.
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Doodsmack
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7224 Posts
January 24 2017 17:20 GMT
#132732
The official President of the United States (POTUS) Twitter page was updated on Sunday to confirm the messages are being posted by Dan Scavino, Mr Trump’s “assistant” and Director of Social Media.

Mr Scavino has used his own Twitter page to publish a number of untrue posts, including one of a video he said showed Syrian refugees in Germany holding a rally in support of Isis. The event was actually a protest against a German far-right group.

He has also repeatedly shared content from conspiracy theory websites and fake news organisations, including InfoWars.

...

Mr Scavino...posted an image of Hillary Clinton that included a Star of David and the words “most corrupt candidate ever”. The image had originated on a neo-Nazi website.

...

During the Republican primary, Mr Scavino shared a video that claimed Mr Trump’s then rival, Ted Cruz, had had an affair with his former employee, the CNN commentator Amanda Carpenter.

...

Mr Scavino first met Mr Trump in 1990, when he was 16 and working as a caddy at a golf club in New York. Mr Trump reportedly told him “You’ll work for me one day”.

...

The 40-year-old is considered to be fiercely loyal to his long-term boss. Asked by CNN last year whether there was “anything [Mr Trump] could say or do that would lead you to abandon him”, he replied: “No”.


Source
Blitzkrieg0
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States13132 Posts
January 24 2017 17:24 GMT
#132733
On January 25 2017 01:30 farvacola wrote:
The Federal Reserve Banks oftentimes lack insight, but their data tends to be pretty solid.


The data can be correct, but the presentation choice is certainly misleading.
I'll always be your shadow and veil your eyes from states of ain soph aur.
TheTenthDoc
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States9561 Posts
January 24 2017 17:28 GMT
#132734
The big problem with a federal hiring freeze in the short term is seasonal employment. Parks/the IRS will experience some big problems.
Nyxisto
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6287 Posts
January 24 2017 17:28 GMT
#132735
I think the war discussions are very hypothetical. If anything China is going to increase influence through economic means rather than brute force, as they have done over the last few years.

Interestingly Australia has said they're open to possibly replace the US in the TPP with China and Indonesia. It would be hilarious if China emerges as the new free trade champion in a decade or two.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/24/australia-open-to-china-and-indonesia-joining-tpp-after-us-pulls-out
Doodsmack
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7224 Posts
January 24 2017 17:30 GMT
#132736
Trump's healthcare nominee says no one will lose coverage in repeal of Obamacare. Which, in essence, is a commitment to a large part of Obamacare. The only way for the middle class who got hit with increased premiums to get relief is for certain other people to lose coverage, unless we go to universal healthcare - which is the antithesis to those who oppose government run healthcare.

Obamacare repeal seems to me like a minefield. Republicans don't want to stand up to the headlines of people losing coverage. Their hands are tied.
Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
January 24 2017 17:33 GMT
#132737
On January 25 2017 02:28 Nyxisto wrote:
I think the war discussions are very hypothetical. If anything China is going to increase influence through economic means rather than brute force, as they have done over the last few years.

Interestingly Australia has said they're open to possibly replace the US in the TPP with China and Indonesia. It would be hilarious if China emerges as the new free trade champion in a decade or two.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/24/australia-open-to-china-and-indonesia-joining-tpp-after-us-pulls-out


China WILL NOT go to war with the US in the topic of the islands. It has ZERO to gain for the losses needed to win (which they won't)

China, if forced, WILL use those islands as a staging ground. Its much much easier for China to force America's hand. They have more fishermen and more resources than the neighboring countries do, they can just start using the islands for fishing and force the US to strike first.

It will not take much to show the world that Trump is a loose cannon that can't be trusted. People already are in that mindset. And it won't take much to slowly push the message towards a union against the United States. Make tariffs against the US, cut off US production, and unify against Trump--in a Chinese attempt to restore order in the US.

They don't need to fire a damn shot to win those islands and the world.
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
LegalLord
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
United Kingdom13775 Posts
January 24 2017 17:38 GMT
#132738
On January 25 2017 02:33 Thieving Magpie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2017 02:28 Nyxisto wrote:
I think the war discussions are very hypothetical. If anything China is going to increase influence through economic means rather than brute force, as they have done over the last few years.

Interestingly Australia has said they're open to possibly replace the US in the TPP with China and Indonesia. It would be hilarious if China emerges as the new free trade champion in a decade or two.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/24/australia-open-to-china-and-indonesia-joining-tpp-after-us-pulls-out


China WILL NOT go to war with the US in the topic of the islands. It has ZERO to gain for the losses needed to win (which they won't)

China, if forced, WILL use those islands as a staging ground. Its much much easier for China to force America's hand. They have more fishermen and more resources than the neighboring countries do, they can just start using the islands for fishing and force the US to strike first.

It will not take much to show the world that Trump is a loose cannon that can't be trusted. People already are in that mindset. And it won't take much to slowly push the message towards a union against the United States. Make tariffs against the US, cut off US production, and unify against Trump--in a Chinese attempt to restore order in the US.

They don't need to fire a damn shot to win those islands and the world.

People might have problems with the US - but a lot of those countries really don't like China. China itself has not all that many allies and most of its neighbors would be loathe to permit a Chinese garrison on their land.

China says they would go to war over the islands - maybe they wouldn't actually do it and they're bluffing but if they're not, would you really be happy about the result?
History will sooner or later sweep the European Union away without mercy.
Doodsmack
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7224 Posts
January 24 2017 17:38 GMT
#132739
On January 25 2017 02:30 Doodsmack wrote:
Trump's healthcare nominee says no one will lose coverage in repeal of Obamacare. Which, in essence, is a commitment to a large part of Obamacare. The only way for the middle class who got hit with increased premiums to get relief is for certain other people to lose coverage, unless we go to universal healthcare - which is the antithesis to those who oppose government run healthcare.

Obamacare repeal seems to me like a minefield. Republicans don't want to stand up to the headlines of people losing coverage. Their hands are tied.


Of course, it could just be an outright fabrication that people won't lose coverage.
Nyxisto
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6287 Posts
January 24 2017 17:48 GMT
#132740
On January 25 2017 02:38 LegalLord wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2017 02:33 Thieving Magpie wrote:
On January 25 2017 02:28 Nyxisto wrote:
I think the war discussions are very hypothetical. If anything China is going to increase influence through economic means rather than brute force, as they have done over the last few years.

Interestingly Australia has said they're open to possibly replace the US in the TPP with China and Indonesia. It would be hilarious if China emerges as the new free trade champion in a decade or two.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/24/australia-open-to-china-and-indonesia-joining-tpp-after-us-pulls-out


China WILL NOT go to war with the US in the topic of the islands. It has ZERO to gain for the losses needed to win (which they won't)

China, if forced, WILL use those islands as a staging ground. Its much much easier for China to force America's hand. They have more fishermen and more resources than the neighboring countries do, they can just start using the islands for fishing and force the US to strike first.

It will not take much to show the world that Trump is a loose cannon that can't be trusted. People already are in that mindset. And it won't take much to slowly push the message towards a union against the United States. Make tariffs against the US, cut off US production, and unify against Trump--in a Chinese attempt to restore order in the US.

They don't need to fire a damn shot to win those islands and the world.

People might have problems with the US - but a lot of those countries really don't like China. China itself has not all that many allies and most of its neighbors would be loathe to permit a Chinese garrison on their land.

China says they would go to war over the islands - maybe they wouldn't actually do it and they're bluffing but if they're not, would you really be happy about the result?


Generally in international relations being not liked is better than being unreliable, and the US is heavily drifting into the direction of not being reliable at all.

Also from the Diplomat today: http://thediplomat.com/2017/01/the-resurgence-of-china-vietnam-ties/

China is trying to rebuild their relationships in the region consecutively
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