Posted on 02/16/2018 5:41:08 PM PST by cba123
THERE is no question which country gets the starring role in “The Military Balance”, the latest annual review of the world’s armed forces by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a London-based think-tank. Amid renewed jostling between the world’s great powers, it is the pace of military modernisation in China that stands out. China’s president, Xi Jinping, wants to be able to challenge America’s military might in the western Pacific. He is making big progress. China’s once bloated armed forces are becoming leaner and a lot more capable. They are also benefiting from a defence budget that is growing at a steady 6-7% a year, in line with GDP. The IISS declares that China has ...
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The reduction of US business taxes is a HUGE blow to the Chinese.
A large step in the direction you advocate.
Nixon went to China as a symptom of weakness, not of a manifestation of strength. He was hoping to use his Chinese diplomatic success to bolster his administration, which was under attack from leftists. It cost us industry, after industry as greedy globalists sought the low cost providers.
The Founding Fathers didn’t think you should be allowed that choice. That’s why they slapped a huge tariff on manufactured goods as one of America’s very first laws.
Their hardware is better than ours, they don’t have kill switches in every chip.
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
There are 4 countries that have historical rivalries with China in Asia. Forget Russia. The remaining 3 are India, Japan and Vietnam. These countries are key to containing China. China will skirmish with India but won’t risk nuclear war with India by escalation. The other 2 must 1. develop their own sophisticated nuclear arsenal. And 2, have solid plans to deny China air superiority over any potential warzone. If neither Japan or Vietnam do this, they will be toast.
There is no way we win a conventional war with CHINA...
We can not make it here without imports from China..
We won WWII because we could build more than they could..
We did not get bombed
Actually starting with Nixon, who opened US relations with China.
If anyone thinks the Chicoms will ever allow modern assembly machinery that was installed in factories over there be disassembled and shipped to the US, they had better think again.
I was in Thailand for a week, and we stopped at a place which had a play. It was very interesting in that is focused on each country one at a time, I thought the depictions were very realistic.
I am American and completely bought the portrayal of America. I also thought the depiction of Vietnam was very good. I saw depictions which were very good, about several countries.
Then they did a focus on China.
It was quite martial. And the Chinese cheered very much.
We have an issue, coming up.
Wake up people.
Guangzhou, where America gets most of it's shoes, and outerwear.We built all that.
By giving our country away
Article is utter nonsense. Building something that looks like a stealth fighter, does not equal a lethal kill chain.
-is it really stealthy
-do its systems really work
-can it be deployed effectively
-can it be maintained effectively
-what kind of training will the operators have
-what kind of combat exp. will the operators have
-what kind of tactics will its commanders have developed
-etc.
In other words, they can park some J-20’s on a reef in the South China sea, but will they really be able to engage them effectively? Spend some time in China, and you will realize the only way something ever works is by repeated failures, using inferior materials and people, until they eventually get it right. I would be my money on the country that has been successfully using, proving, and developing the technologies for the last 30 years, with an operational training regime that dates back to VietNam.
I lived in China in the 1980’s.
Even then, they were entirely focused on learning things, and developing things.
The country is VERY capable of producing anything we are capable of producing. And they steal a great deal of intellectual property.
We need to gear up to defend ourselves once again.
Far too many, just climbed onto the China bandwagon during the last 30 years.
China has lots, and lots, and lots of experience producing everything sold in every store in America.
What you are talking about, are just training issues.
Temporary.
That wasting money on weapons instead of making rational military acquisition decisions is a good thing?
And by the by, we can get along without China a lot more easily than they can get along without us.
Too many people, from all political backgrounds, have made a fortune from selling out communist china. This has gone on since before the 1990’s, and possibly further back. That is all this is about: making a shitload of cash, consequences be damned.
I see that mentality a lot here on FR, along with all of the flimsy excuses tossed out their to justify their actions. The chinese don’t make just cheap crap anymore, they make just about ALL of our comsumer and industrial products now, either in whole, or partial content.
And this isn’t just an American problem. China has worked its way into being a sole source producer through acquisition of industries and IP.
Like you said, we were sold out. And now, the chinese own us.
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