Posted on 06/21/2004 12:55:23 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Thought you may be interested in this.
Just curious, but how long do you think it takes to find a new factory, have them retool their manufacturing line, produce a prototype, get it approved, find suppliers in the area for raw goods for mass production, go into production, find a carrier that can ship it? Now I am just talking silicon and computer parts here. How long to you think it takes for an American Company to get this done and get the product back here?
So, how does everyone feel about Clinton/Gore giving them technology to make their missiles launch and guidance technology to accurately nuke us now?
The Commission report also noted that China continues to proliferate advanced weapons to many of its client states including North Korea, Pakistan, and Iran.
You might be interested in this then:
BEIJING (Reuters) - Syria, under fresh U.S. economic sanctions over its support of anti-Israel militants, wants increased and more balanced trade with China, Minister of Economy and Commerce Ghassan al-Rifai said on Monday
"We want to stimulate trade and we will work on that... The level of trade is modest and is very imbalanced," Rifai told Reuters in an interview in Beijing.
"The purpose is to foster ties between Syria and China and mending the malfunction in the world order," said Syria's ambassador to Beijing, Mohammed Kheir al-Wadi.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040621/wl_nm/syria_china_dc_1
Man, you just said a mouthful!!!
Wash DEE CEE is LOADED with 'don't rock the boat' careerists counting on DOING NOTHING to jeopardize their cushy pensions [and health benefits FOR LIFE]...look at the whole Flight School sitrep...
Wash DEE CEE has degenerated from a Government to an infestation of PARASITES!!!
A very fundamental fact about Nuclear exchanges
Let's speculate on the result of a theoretical nuclear-exchange between;
Small island states(Japan, Taiwan, Cuba, G.Britain etc) against the likes of large continental land-mass nations(USA, Russia, China etc)
In such a scenario, small island nation-states would suffer much, much, more devastating damages than their large land-mass nation-states counterparts
In 1957-59, during the SUEZ CRISIS, when the USSR treathened to use nukes against Britain, unless they (Brtits) withdraw from their invasion of the Suez Canal, the British knew thair their time as a great superpower had ended. They realized that in a nuke-exchage with the USSR, Britain would be 80% devastated whereas the USSR might suffer only 20% damage--- a very one-sided exchange. Hence, the British HAD to capitulate and withdraw
If China/Japan were to have a nuke-exchange, who would suffer more damage, proportionately??????
That would be true if the U.S. government had some recourse short of war. What exactly, can the US govt. do other than go to war? If GWB orders an attack on China to recover the money, what would the rest of the world do? Defend us or China?
Why is it that "conservatives" and some college hackademics are the only folks who believe that communism actually works?
China is Enron, with nuclear weapons. The only question is how hard they're gonna crash.
Minor point of correction here:
China doesn't export food to America; America exports food to China.
It gets seized. Then again, we simply stop paying on all those bonds held by China, and that will just about kill the ChiCom economy right there.
BTW, what happens to all that US investment in China when Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong get nuked by the Taiwanese? And what happens to all those US debt instruments in that same scenario?
What happens to our economy when we can't manufacture the things our military require?
Are you seriously arguing that the only place where anything is manufactured is China?
BZZT. Wrong answer.
Can you say consequences?
Absolutely. However, I doubt that you can. To assume that the Chinese can invade Taiwan without any consequences is, to put it mildly, pretty damn stupid.
If helpless hand-wringers like you are put in charge, too damn long. Leave that sort of thing to the grownups.
Just out of idle curiousity...
How can there be any "fundamental facts" about events that have never happened? Nuclear exchanges--i.e., two sides lobbing nukes at each other--are terra incognita.
And they are cutting that number in half, because they can afford 2.5 million poorly-equipped troops, or about 1.25 million well-equipped troops.
That is a sizable force if you ask me.
To attack overseas, and keep a lid on 1.3 billion people who just lost their meal ticket, all at the same time?
China doesn't export food to America
Major point of correction here: they do.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22chinese+exports%22+food
Ask some American farmers who are taking it on the chin, as their American customers buy from China, who can undercut them even with illegal Mexican workers here.
They're MFN, you know.
Oh, it's YOU again? Sheesh. Didn't I tell you to quit bothering me?
The net flow of food is from the US to China. Remember, "data" is the plural form of "datum," not "anecdote."
And as for not bothering you, don't post factually wrong material, and I won't supply a correction to said material. Otherwise, Tango Sierra.
Do you mean the kind you get at Wal Mart and other discount stores? How much of what we consume comes from China, and whose fault is that?
How about a deal: Taiwan for North Korea.
We support the non violent transition of Taiwan to the mainland, and China supports non violent regime change in the North and reunification of the Koreas.
I don't think that would work in the real world, but its an idea.
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