China - US Relations: Are China and the United States on a Collision Course to War? - by Kevin Peraino

Here is one way the American era could end: China, on a pretext or piqued by some provocation, orchestrates an invasion of Taiwan. Beijing launches a shower of missiles toward Taipei, crippling its American-supplied military, followed by attacks on Okinawa and Guam. More than 200,000 People’s Liberation Army troops climb ashore at 20 different beachheads along the Taiwanese coast. American submarines sink some Chinese ships; still, it’s not enough to slow the onslaught of paratroopers and helicopters. Slowly — then swiftly — the pitched fighting tilts in favor of the Middle Kingdom, altering the military and political balance in East Asia. The result, which ultimately reduces a world superpower to one weakened player among many, comes to be seen by historians as the “American Waterloo.”

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Shipping Industry: Greece seeks role as China’s ‘gateway to Europe’

China wants to invest in Greece’s airports, railways and its busiest port, the two countries have said, as the country where the euro debt crisis began seeks a role as China’s gateway into Europe.

Chinese premier Li Keqiang is on a three-day trip to Greece to strengthen economic ties between the nations, who have drawn closer since China’s Cosco Pacific won a 35-year concession in 2009 to upgrade and run two container cargo piers at the Piraeus port.

Greece, which relies on bailout loans from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, desperately needs foreign investment to spur growth and create jobs as it struggles to exit a six-year recession.

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