Posted on 08/21/2010 7:39:47 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
China is gradually beginning to resemble Japan of the 1930s and the thought of having to stop them with Barack Obama as our Commander in Chief is not reassuring.
The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) has made the headlines recently by aggressively deploying missiles capable of striking American forces in the Western Pacific. China’s goal is to deny us access to aid Taiwan when the People’s Army decides to invade the island.
China’s Modernization
During the last 30 years China has greatly accelerated her economic and military growth. The Communist country’s economic advancement has greatly improved the living standard of its citizens and China’s international profile.
This economic growth is fueling China’s drive to modernize her military from a defensive force to a regional powerhouse and eventually a global military power.
After decades of maintaining a largely defensive military the Chinese are working on offensive capabilities by acquiring amphibious assault vehicles and a former Soviet aircraft carrier from Ukraine.
China understands that it cannot develop modern weapons without outside help; they are more than willing to purchase foreign weapons and expert help to gain the science and technology edge necessary to achieve her goals.
The PRC has developed an aggressive spy structure, and its spy and computer espionage programs gather information it cannot otherwise buy. The Chinese believe becoming a modern military power will provide the leverage needed to resolve diplomatic disputes to their advantage, and of course they are right.
Taiwan
China’s drive toward modernizing her military is geared towards a possible invasion of Taiwan. As an economic rival Taiwan has always been a threat, but given the condition of the world’s economy, it is more worrisome than ever.
The Chinese want to reign in Taiwan by either peaceful means or by military action, but..
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As long as 90% of the products we consume are made in China, I can’t see them biting the hands that feeds them regardless of political differences.
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And another bad sign... Russia is beginning to look like Germany Circa 1933... Except with that Stalinist flair...
My casual observations lead me to believe China wants Taiwan, a little Japanese blood, Japanese island territory, and Japanese grovelling and degradation, and Europe’s peer-respect.
If the apostate Mooslime dictator's disastrous policies continue, America won't be able to feed the ravenous Chinese monster for very much longer.
That’s why they call it the Long March.
I’m interested to see how long it wil take them to make a play for Eastern Russia.
“As long as 90% of the products we consume are made in China, I can’t see them biting the hands that feeds them regardless of political differences.”
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Actually, that was almost exactly the accepted wisdom about Japan, at the time.
I highly disagree with that assessment. Again, I believe that Russia is like Germany circa 1933. Russia WILL be able to reassemble the USSR, and will be more dangerous than ever.
Muslims have more internal disputes than anyone. Look at Iraq and Afghanistan for example. They can’t even get themselves to agree to anything.
Except jihad.
Hold on now. Ya mean China is more a threat to us than Iran’s dreams and Taliban’s improvised devices? But we do have free trade with China, doesn’t that count for something?
As with Russia, Iran, etc, China has to be thrilled that the U.S. has a limp-wristed liberal know-it-all as CIC.
What time? 1940, when we put a trade embargo on Japan, depriving them of needed resources to run their war machine? We imported nothing of importance from Japan at that time. They needed us badly, we needed them not at all.
China is the next super-power. No country stays on top forever.
Britain was the mightiest empire the world has seen.. note I say was, now they are slashing their navy and military to the bone. With political parties like the Democrats, who may be good patriotic folks local level, but whose leaders are virulently anti-American, our downfall is pretty inevitable.
You can’t maintain your status when you build up your military and foreign allies with one party and then the other party comes in and trashes what you just built up. You just can’t sustain a way of life like that.
Except they jihad against each other over the interpretation of islam...
Yeah...and the Aussie Prime Minister Bob “pig iron” Menzies sold all that pig iron to Japan in the ‘30s.......seems to me we have history repeating.
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