China Uneasy About American Troop Deployment

American Voices

November 18, 2011 | ISSUE 47•48

A recent American plan to place 2,500 Marines in Australia has fanned tensions between the United States and China. What do you think?

Geez, we invade a few dozen countries in our short history and people really start getting paranoid.

Jackie Renn
Systems Analyst
But do we know which way the troops will be facing?"

Tony Harlan
Roller Maker
This sends a clear message to the Chinese that we're willing to put a completely inconsequential number of troops some 2,600 miles from their border, so they'd better watch out.

Claude Brand
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