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Wed Mar-24-04 10:33 AM
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... most technologically-advanced in the world? Their air force has HUNDREDS of top-notch fighter aircraft with highly-trained pilots.
Any Chinese invasion would be doomed to failure, and the Chinese know this. Not only that, but the ramifications for both among their East Asian neighbors would be catastrophic -- which they both know as well.
Eventually the two probably WILL unify to a certain degree. Just not until China experiences a much greater economic development -- and possibly as part of an East Asian alliance against the inevitability of continued US striving for military hegemony in the region.
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