March 7, 2005: "China's military pledges strong backing in opposing 'Taiwan independence' ... While taking part in a panel discussion on the Government Work Report on March 6, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) delegation pledged that they would work hard to realize a leapfrog development in the building of national defense and modernization of the army, step up preparation for military actions, thereby making new contributions in opposing and curbing "Taiwan independence", and in the defense of state sovereignty, reunification and stability. Liang Guanglie, member of the Central Military Commission and chief of the general staff, pointed out the need to more consciously plan and guide military work from the political height and the national interests as a whole, do a solid job in pushing forward military change with Chinese characteristics and preparations for military actions, and strive to enhance the army's overall combat effectiveness under the condition of informationization. It is essential to be subordinated to and serve the country's overall development strategy and, on the basis of continuous economic development, energetically strengthen the building of national defense and the army, incessantly enhance national defense capabilities and military strength, so as provide a powerful security guarantee for building a well-off society in an all-round way. It is imperative to step up combat readiness in high morale, in compliance with the requirement of actual combat and in the spirit of seizing the day and seizing the hour, and to provide a strong backing in opposing and containing "Taiwan independence" and defending national unification. Li Jinai, member of the Central Military Commission and director of the General Political Department, stressed the need to always put ideological-political building in the first place of armed forces construction, to hold high banners, obey command, enhance the awareness of military soul and adhere to the correct orientation of army building. "
What other warnings do we REALLY NEED on this, the eve of the Pearl Harbour of the 21st Century.
No kidding man. We (the collective we) just don't seem to get the fact that the Peace of San Francisco of 1951, and, it's modifier, the Treaty of Paris of 1990, is essentially unravelling. In the West, we've talked ourselves into believing that we are "beyond the end of history" and that an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity has taken over. It's understandable, when we see things like NAFTA and the EU and the many, essentially Western initiated things like WTO and the like. The anti Western forces, having sensed the zeal with which the West has embraced this false peace, have, with the exception of certain Islamist extremists, who fight us in the here and now, feined to embrace this latest attempt at creating a global market utopia. It is allowing them, especially and particularly true in the case of the PRC, to seize the means of production with Western acquiescence and to make the West dependent on them. Most in the West believe, foolishly, that the PRC will actually truly ascend to the WTO and abide by its rules, in 2007. That is their justification for not taking a war preparation stance. It's tragic.