Posted on 11/22/2017 10:33:39 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Edited on 11/22/2017 11:36:38 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
A few weeks ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping offered a Soviet-style five-year plan for China's progress at the Communist Party Congress in Beijing. Despite his talk of global cooperation, the themes were familiar socialist boilerplate about Chinese economic and military superiority to come.
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Japan courted Muslims: ’43 OSS paper: Anti-Western campaign included tip Emperor would convert to Islam
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2004/08/20/national/japan-courted-muslims-43-oss-paper/#.WhZsd5WWxqU
Japan is worried about payback.
Japan should be worried about payback, and they better hurry up and develop a deterrence to make the price unacceptable to China.
China unveils 19,030mph HYPERSONIC scattergun nuke to strike ‘ANYWHERE in world’
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/662008/China-War-US-Nuclear-Missile-Hypersonic-Dongfeng-41-Xi-Jinping-Donald-Trump-Test-Nuke-Mach
The headline with that link I posted is silly, but there is a serious threat. China doesn’t care about any nuke treaties and won’t honor any. Those are not “scattergun” nukes. Those MERVs would be quite guided and can go anywhere. It’s been ignored in U.S. discussion for too long.
Pardon my acronym spelling. ...MIRVs, even.
China also has some major disadvantages: adverse demographics; a constrained geographic position that makes power projection difficult; a large load of bad debt; a bullying attitude toward other countries; a culture that tolerates corruption and cheating; and a looming “middle income trap” in which economic gains become more difficult because they require original scientific research. The US needs to clamp down on Chinese trade abuses and currency manipulation and must bolster its military, and if that is done, China’s rise can be checked and managed.
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