[Cringing Negativism Network]

Although Adm. Locklear said it is obvious that Chinese military power is growing, he suggested that it is unclear whether China will seek to be a hard adversary to the U.S. in the long term, so Washington should be working overtime on steering Beijing toward a cooperative security posture.

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[Viennacon]

Our foreign policy is adrift. Obama is pathetic.

[what's up]

Isn't this what all the liberals claim to want...a bipolar rather than unipolar world?

That's what I remember Madeleine Allbright saying and they all believe it.

[Gay State Conservative]

That’s by design.Osama Obama and his Maoist pals will settle for nothing less.After all our Armed Forces have caused nothing but death,destruction and oppression for the last 50 years or more.

[grumpygresh]

Our government is so corrupt, unconstitutional, and malignant, that as Hillary said, what difference does it make. I honestly can’t support US foreign policy because I believe that the US government is a force for evil. That said, China is no better. I guess all we can hope for is that evil will exhaust itself be battling against itself.

[ClearCase_guy]

Under normal circumstances, the US would make it clear that we had close alliances with Japan and India. They would help us, we would help them. Any country caught in the middle (*ahem* China *ahem*) would be outclassed by population, technology, resources and money.

But the US has alienated India and shown no support for Japan. Asia fears the dragon and no longer sees the US as a reliable counterweight.

[Greysard]

America needs to build things right here, in America. Bring back American manufacturing.

There is a whole new generation of people in the street that had never worked at a factory and has no intention to start. Toiling at a conveyor is not a clean and easy office job. Such work would have to be poorly paid because one does not need a university diploma to push the same one button on a machine every single day. The country may not have workers anymore that would fit into that niche.

Domestic manufacturing is possible; but it will have to be entirely robotic. This will avoid the problem of very expensive human labor. This will also increase the pool of permanently unemployed people. It will be so because robotic factories will not need inefficient but overpaid humans to do repetitive tasks. Those humans who cannot find a more creative occupation for themselves (engineers, techs, doctors, artists) will have to be on social security forever.

[SeminoleCounty]

Anyone supporting Free Trade with Communist China is committing treason.

It wasn’t too long ago that aiding the enemy got one executed for Treason.

How stupid can anyone be continuing to support our economic situation with Communist China

[Mastador1]

Ominous warning: Admiral concedes U.S. losing dominance to China

What's his concern? The current resident and demonrats have been working to this end for years, and demonrats in general for decades! America is a bully, America is past it's prime, America apologizes for being exceptional, so says the pussy in chief. I say America is only guilty of pulling the worlds nuts out of the fire repeatedly thru the blood of our young and the fruits and hard work of a nation. But what the hell the demonrats are getting what they want the trashing of America.

[ETL]

Obama: "We Welcome China's Rise"
CBS News ^ | January 19, 2011 | Stephanie Condon

[tsowellfan]

Bring back American manufacturing

What's the brand name of the computer you used to post this article?

Was it an "American" made Compaq or a Chinese made Compak which a friends of mine saw in India (the second most populated country in the world)?

China no longer needs "our" industries. They have their own and are flooding the world with them, brands such as KFG, Mike shoes, King Burger, LL Been backpacks (flooding southeast asia), Sonie DVD players.

I suppose we could boycott China but do we still have the buying power to make the difference? "Our" jobs didn't just go to China. They went to India, Malaysia, Korea, Mexico and many other nations and I doubt we'll see them come back in our lifetime. We've seen our peak. We are in the midst of a self-inflicted freefall.

Nobody sent "our" jobs there. They were never ours to begin with. They are the jobs of the manufacturing companies that decided that America is no longer a business friendly nation.

[ETL]

"I will not weaponize space"

"I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems"

"I will slow our development of future combat systems"

-- Barack Obama, 2007 campaign trail

[hosepipe]

America needs to build things right here, in America.

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DUH!... a little late for that isn’t it?...

[grumpygresh]

Ominous warning: the regime needs a war against China to distract the citizenry from domestic affairs and unite the ignorant against a common enemy.

[DesertRhino]

I remember when military leadership knew that you don’t prepare for what you think they intend to do, but instead prepared for what they were capable of doing.

Our top military leadership is of the very lowest quality in US history. (unless of course you want someone to serve on a corporate board, or a university faculty)

[Liberty Valance]

bmrk

[driftdiver]

Throughout Chinas history they have always sought to be the strongest. They haven’t always been successful but they will keep trying.