[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

The article contains a lot of hot air and not very much hard fact--it's an example of very poor writing (or, more likely, editing).

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"China's economy has been growing at a rate of at least 10 percent for each of the past 10 years"

Uh-huh, and they have this bridge for sale in Beijing...

[jpsb]

Ping from the lousy speller annalistSo much for free trade house breaking the Chicom

[television is just wrong]

and Maytag, and Unocal are courting the idea of becoming a chinese company?????

Where are our brains, down the drain?

[Manic_Episode]

Bill Clintons proud legacy.

[streetpreacher]

"There's a growing consensus that at some point in the mid-to-late '90s, there was a fundamental shift in the sophistication, breadth and re-sorting of Chinese defense planning," said Richard Lawless, a senior China-policy maker in the Pentagon.

You think?

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

The combination of a vibrant centralized economy, growing military and increasingly fervent nationalism has transformed China into what many defense officials view as a fascist state.

1] Our econmy is OK, not on par with China's.

2] There is not a gram of "fervent nationalism" in the Executive or Legislative branches of our government.

3] Fascist state? I wish the United States was a "fascist state" if China is a "fascist state".

We all should envy China. It is true, they are "fervently nationalistic". Why isn't the United State "fervently nationalistic"? Instead, we are just the opposite--we blow our national treasury by giving it away to foreign terrorist nations. We canel debt owed to us. We give, e.g., billions to Africa, even though we can't even afford to preserve historical monuments, or to pay for the F-22.

We should copy China's government. At least, they have "fervent nationalism", something that America has zero of.

[mict42]

"There's a growing consensus that at some point in the mid-to-late '90s, there was a fundamental shift in the sophistication, breadth and re-sorting of Chinese defense planning

Guess under whose watch they were handed the military expertise to become our equal on the battlefield? You got it. Our friends in the Clinton admin. Real patriots, weren't they?