[TigerLikesRooster]

Thank you China for self-destructing, and in the process giving liberals unintended pain to watch Bush prevail in Europe.

I guess their curse is not as powerful as it used to.:)

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[rovenstinez]

Could China be the Dragon in Revelation Chapter 12? I wonder if there are any young Chang Kai Cheks ready to take front and center stage?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Just like Algore overplayed his hand.
Just like Osama bin Laden overplayed his hand.
Just like Saddam Hussein overplayed his hand.
Just like the courts are overplaying their hand.

[numberonepal]

Remind me to never play poker with the Prez. He'd probably get my house, car, and wife out of a game.

[Brian Allen]

<< Thank you China for self-destructing and in the process giving liberals unintended pain to watch Bush prevail in Europe.

I guess its curse is not as powerful as it used to be. :) >>

The Peking-based predatory pack of lying, looting, thieving, mass-murdering psychopathologically-hesperophobic gangster bastards that so grandiosely calls itself "china" has for too long been reading and believing its own Goebbelsian propaganda.

The propaganda, that is, that announces a given year's
"growth" eleven months before the end of the year -- fails to take into account that 40% of that slave state's "income" [Loot!] comes from intellectual theft and counterfeiting, at least 10% more from drug and weapons-running and from the various other forms of the systemic criminal activities that pass for "business" and "government" there. And paying no heed that most of the balance from the foreign investments of OPM [Other people's monies] by "The-[Bollock-Naked!]-Emperor-is Splendardly-Clothed" school corporate ignoramuses who also believe "china's" delusional Goebbel's School fantasies. And none that the looted net outflow is greater than the sum of even all the delusionally-fantasized "income" alluded to above.

"China" will successfully invade Taiwan the year Israel is defeated by the plo, Canada invades and defeats the United States, Pakistan kicks India's arse, france wins a war -- any war -- and Hell freezes over.

[Khurkris]

Don't be too fast to close this one out. This ballgame is still in the early innings.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for your great reporting of these news items never carried here by our left wing MSM.

[spodefly]

"(China's) enactment last week of an Anti-Secession Law that lays the foundation for a possible military attack on Taiwan if, in Beijing's judgment, it were to move toward formal independence ... "

Is Lincoln running China now?

[tallhappy]

In December 2003, when Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian insisted that he would hold a referendum on a new constitution that China interpreted as a major step toward independence, Bush forcefully intervened, harshly assailing the plan during a White House photo opportunity with visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

This was a horrible thing Bush did.

It was so out of character and so contradictory of Bush doctrine.

Yet Condi in Beijing still made the same sort of comments as Bush did on that Deecember 2003 day.

They are all for democracy except for Taiwan which must be subservient to China, a dictatorial regime.

[unkus]

If only China would self-destruct. We had better stay on top of it, or China will kick our butts one day and they will have no mercy.

[Travis McGee]

Europe's largely obsolete military hardware is becoming irrelevant. After 25 years of cultivating Chinese PHDs at MIT, Berkley etc, what do they need European military hardware for? They can build their own. This is largely symbolic IMO.

[ponder life]

In the short term, China does need European military systems. But if China continues to reform their economy by continuing to expand trade relationships with the world, enforce laws to protect intellectual property, and remain politically stable, the Europeans may someday be buying military systems from China instead.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

, had tried to reassure the US that they did not intend to sell the kinds of sophisticated military or dual-use equipment that Washington fears could be used by Beijing,

. . . which Russia will be more than happy to continue selling to them.