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Checking the threat that could be China(military reorganization in Pacific)
Japan Times ^
| 06/12/05
| RICHARD HALLORAN
Posted on 06/17/2005 6:43:30 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: GOP_1900AD
I am living 1950's America, wait its the 21st Century and Russia is an economic basket case, and China is still a regional power. Knock of the funny weed guy it's making you paranoid, or maybe you should where a tin foil hat to keep out mind control rays. Large scale imperialist wars went the way of the dinosaurs last century. No one has the resources to conduct such war not even the United States. Example Iraq, which is stretching our military might to limit.
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posted on
06/19/2005 7:56:07 AM PDT
by
Kuehn12
(Kuehn12)
To: Kuehn12
A jesss!!! RE: "Large scale imperialist wars"
Tell me, comrade, about, how you say, large scale imperialist wars! Tell me about, how you say, the reactionary paper tigers!
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posted on
06/20/2005 10:28:28 AM PDT
by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
To: Kuehn12; BringBackMyHUAC; Paul Ross; DarkWaters; Jan Malina
RE: Kuehn12
Since Jun 5, 2005
You are warrry, warrry new here, comrade Kuehn12! Velcome to da play pen of reactionary paper tiger! Nosdrovya! Or is it a Mandarin accent I ought to be mimicking?
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posted on
06/20/2005 10:31:10 AM PDT
by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
To: GOP_1900AD
Example, Germany and Japan WII, how much money and resources would that cost under high tech conditions? Large scale wars would be near suicide in the nuclear age.
"I have won the battle" says the Chinese general, but wait there goes a mushroom cloud.
You might think I am a Chinese sympathizer because I think the they haven't the will or where with-all to accomplish your scenario.
We live in a different world, and China might have dreams of empire. They may hate us and wish us ill, but we carry the big stick and speak softly. They know the truth, so for now they are bluster and hot air.
We will continue to blaze trails of military innovation the Chinese could only hope for in their most ardent dreams.
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posted on
06/20/2005 10:56:00 AM PDT
by
Kuehn12
(Kuehn12)
To: Kuehn12
Everything you say is true. I think you are a China shill wearing "Western economic libertarian" clothes.
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posted on
06/20/2005 1:09:38 PM PDT
by
GOP_1900AD
(Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
To: GOP_1900AD
I see we have a real live on here. Never fails to impress me how much the PRC will try to continue its propaganda war through stooges. There version of move along, there is nothing to see or worry about here.
To: Kuehn12
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posted on
06/25/2005 9:32:43 PM PDT
by
Jubal
("Education never helped morals. The smarter the guy, the bigger the rascal." - Will Rogers)
To: Jubal
Assumption one: Wars are fought over natural resources. Example, Gulf War
However, this is the only example I can think in modern times. Most modern conflicts are based on ideology, religious intolerance on the part of the Muslim world, and civil conflict based on ethnic hate.
Assumption two: A chance that during a conflict with the PRC that a Chinese agent would sabotage the Panama Canal.
This is a given, and you could throw in the Strait of
Macca.
Assumption three: The Chinese are involved in the Latin America. Yes, they are and they may very well be training Mexican troops. That isn't the real problem, it is the diplomatic failure of the US in South America that should be troubling. We have tacitly given up on the Monroe Doctrine. Nearly the entire region has gone red with Fidel Castro behind it all with his new Benedicto, The Peoples Republic of China.
Qiao and Wang believe that unlike the weapons of new concepts, which motivate technological innovation in the narrower military field, what drives UW is the new concepts of weapons, i.e., ways and means that are non-military but can be employed as weapons for warfare to achieve political objectives. In this sense, UW really refers to non-military warfare (as opposed to military operations other than war (MOOTW) such as peacekeeping, disaster relief, etc.). It encompasses diplomatic warfare (through alliance building and diplomatic bargaining and deception, for instance), economic warfare (through trade, aid, and sanctions), financial warfare (through stock speculation and currency devaluation or forgery), cyber warfare (through hacking and virus attacks), media and information warfare (through media management and control of information), network warfare (through disrupting critical infrastructure such as electricity grids, traffic dispatching, financial transactions, telephone communications, and mass media networks), and environmental warfare (through man-made natural disasters such as earthquakes).
Assumption Three: that there definition of unrestricted is the same a Osama bin laden. Much of what is said sounds like the exercise of soft power, but last few lines makes the guy sound like a weirdo. I mean what is he talking about EMP weapons or something.
Last Assumption: War with China is inevitable.
War with China isn't inevitable, but is proable over the next 10 to 20 years. However, that could have been said about the Soviet Union at any point over the coarse of the Cold War. This situation is some what different. The Soviet weren't apart of the internal economic system to the extent that China is, and China is no where near as powerful as the USSR militarily. There are also forces within China that might change its nature; the huge Christian movement, the unbridled capitalism, and uncertain nature of the next generation of Chinese leaders.
All of which could stave off any conflict.
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posted on
06/26/2005 6:56:47 AM PDT
by
Kuehn12
(Kuehn12)
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