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Originally Posted by SoldierOfDarkness
The South China Seas is an area that is rich in resources and shipping lanes so yeah everybody including the birds and bees are going to try to gain as much stake in it as they can. Would they go to war? No, in a global economy where everybody is tied together they will never risk that, especially with nuclear weapons. The world is in need of Energy and because both India and China are still developing countries they need to secure as many energy resources as possible to feed themselves.
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Under this logic WWI would had never happen but it did. I think we are seeing a copy/paste scenario of WWI, we will see for some years many diplomatic and military movements (to test the mettle of everyone else in the area) until one ridiculous incident lights the fuze. BTW, the military nowadays likes to talk about "tactical warheads", powerful enough to destroy an enemy fleet but small enough to make the gullible think they are just very big bombs.