On: US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty

[jarfil]

Depends. Are they so desperate that they want to go to war, or are they rather becoming more of a middle class that wants to play the newest video games?

[Tsubasachan → jarfil]

How many wars has China instigated in the last 30 years though? Seems to me the region is shifting to accommodate the new power balance quite nicely.

[tomohawk → jarfil]

Before WW I, France and Germany were each others largest trading partners. Trade and prosperity are orthogonal to war.

[notfromhere → tomohawk]

Trade wasn't anywhere as big as it is now; most trade was within internal colonies, not externally.

[oblio → jarfil]

I'm not sure about video games, but they do seem to crave mobile phones and luxury goods :D