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CW5 Jack Cardwell
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Excellent share
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MSgt Ken "Airsoldier" Collins-Hardy
MSgt Ken "Airsoldier" Collins-Hardy
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You betcha CW5 Jack Cardwell... And have a great Air & Space Day, Sir. Defensor!
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MAJ Ken Landgren
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The irony is the US helped build up China through a trading program to purchase goods from China. Investing in factories in China also gave them the technology and know how to grow exponentially and the opportunity to steal proprietary information and technology. In a few decades the Chinese went from an agrarian to industrial, computers, and informational cultures. It never occurred to us that military growth would occur during the incipient stages of buying Chinese goods.
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MSgt Ken "Airsoldier" Collins-Hardy
MSgt Ken "Airsoldier" Collins-Hardy
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Lest We Forget The OPFOR Perspective...
"In the 1850s, the United States and the European powers grew increasingly dissatisfied with both the terms of their treaties with China, and the Qing Government's failure to adhere to them. The British forced the issue by attacking the Chinese port cities of Guangzhou and Tianjin in the Second Opium War (1857-1858). Under the most-favored-nation clause, all of the foreign powers operating in China were permitted to seek the same concessions of China that Great Britain achieved by force. As a result, France, Russia, and the United States all signed treaties with China at Tianjin in quick succession in 1858. The agreements reached between the Western powers and China following the Opium Wars came to be known as the "unequal treaties" because in practice they gave foreigners privileged status and extracted concessions from the Chinese...."

US Department of State Archives. (n.d.). The Opening to China Part I: the First Opium War, the United States, and the Treaty of Wangxia, 1839-1844. Retrieved June 22, 2018 from https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/dwe/82011.htm
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Great share and very valid point.
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MSgt Ken "Airsoldier" Collins-Hardy
MSgt Ken "Airsoldier" Collins-Hardy
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Thanks for chiming in Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen. Defensor Fortis!
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