Okay, now that's in the realm of pure speculation.

How do you think another country - or the world - would react to
China's invasion of neighboring countries? Why would they even do
that?

Mark

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Bod Notbod<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Mark Williamson<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I disagree. All languages that have had a chance of becoming world
>> lingua francas - English, French, perhaps Spanish, are some recent
>> examples - were not only the languages of economic or political
>> powers, they were also the languages of vast colonial empires.
>
> You're working on the assumption that China won't colonise anywhere. I
> have the feeling they're going to burst and spray their populace
> across the greater part of the continent at some point.
>
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