September 11 happened in China

I expected this sort of stuff from the teen brigade that's largely populating this thread but seriously, Merry...you honestly believe the "anti-American left" likes China any more than they do the US government? These are the sort of people who tend to also be into the Free Tibet Movement, remember?

I'm amazed that a thinking adult like yourself seems to have such a vague and unrealistic grasp of the realities of the modern geopolitical setup...

Well a lot of the hardcore anti-American left actually supports the Chinese rule of Tibet. Like the Party of Socialism and Liberation.
 
I'm amazed by the relative naivety on here, I'm sorry but regardless of what the Chinese think of it they DO NOT have the same authority either morally or geopolitically to invade Afghanistan as the United States does.

Even if they could China would never launch a global War on Terror becomes its not the dominant power, it couldn't get away with it. Without American influence in the Middle East alone, you've got Saudi Arabia on your arse as evil commie atheists attack poor little Afghanistan based on the acts of one guy.

Sad as it is the West can get away with things no one else can, and yes the Serbia/Georgia example is pretty much the definition of the bias and differeance in influence.

British troops went into Sierra Leone to secure diamond mines in 2001 and it was called humanitarian, can you imagine if even PLA advisors were caught in say the Congo? This is no conspiracy theory about the big, bad west its how the world works and always has, and I'm sure in 20 years time China will be able to 'save' a few third world countries too without too much political fallout.

I'm amazed the people on here are interested in history, and unless they seriously think the British invasion of Egypt in 1884 was to establish law & order and not the Suez Canal, they must surely believe history has ended and we've entered some lovely wonderland future of 'bringing democracy' to places.

Sorry, lost track but yeah, China goes covert or not at all, the United States, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India and others would not allow it because of the geopolitical ramifications, which I'm sorry but 2,000 dead Chinese will not pay for that. American/Western lives in PR terms are worth more, simple disgusting truth. I mean no ones sees the hundreds of thousands of casulaties in Afghanistan in the past 8 years as not worth it do they?

9/11 was a solid reason for the World Superpower, but the morality of it was as much a PR victory for the allies that went in as anything, combined with America curbstomping abilities its win-win for all involved.

But no even into relatively unimportant Afghanistan, America wont be too happy about Chinese geopolitical power growing. Such a TL might see US and Islamist force unite again if they invaded. Let them kill Bin Laden then start supplying the Taliban.

Again if Chinese forces had installed a regime along their lines in Afghanistan and retained troops to prop it up for almost a decade please try and explain how the world would understand?
 
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