[Mike Darancette]

At the rate China is arming our biggest problems may not be either Muslims or Mexicans.

[308MBR]

Do any of the so-called conservapoots, um, er, socialatives,...... Soldouticans..... Republicayellowdefecators....

I give up on what passes for having an "R" after their names means, but the real fact of the matter is NOT ONE SOUL IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS THE TESTOSTERONE PRODUCING GLANDS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY STAND UP FOR THE SECOND AND TENTH AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION WHILE RESISTING THE ADVANCES OF CHINA INC.

Sorry about all the yelling. I shall endeavor to persevere to maintain low tones, for the rest of the day anyway.

[TheWasteLand]

I think China is certainly the real threat to the West, in the long run. What the President is doing with India is helpful, but is no substitute for aggressive American deterrence.

I think the honeymoon with China (especially wrt trade) is nearly over.

[Zhang Fei]

China is building up. But many analysts are jumping the gun. Pre-war Germany had some of the best weaponry in the world. It was also one of the world's top industrial powers, having just revolutionized the chemical industry by inventing the Bosch and the Haber processes.

China's weaponry is crap - a small amount of it is overrated garbage imported from Russia, but most of it is Chinese-made junk - modified 50-year old Soviet designs. China is also one of the more backward countries in the world. Don't just take my word for it - go there sometime and experience it for yourself.

Go to any internet military forum with US veterans on it, and they'll tell you that the Chinese military would be flattened by the Korean military, let alone the American one. At this stage, China isn't pre-WWII Germany. It isn't even pre-WWII Japan - a much weaker power than the Germany of that era.*

China is a paper tiger at the moment. And the capabilities gap between the US and China is widening. And will continue to widen, assuming the US military budget remains at around 4% of American industrial output.

* Germany fought all the allies pretty much alone for six years. Uncle Sam devoted 80% of the war effort to fight Germany. It took 4 years to get to Berlin. Three months after 100% of the US war effort was devoted to fighting Japan, the Japanese had surrendered.

[mkjessup]

"China Building Military at Pace Last Seen in 1930s Germany"

Somehow all those masses of Red Guards with their arms extended and screaming "SIEG HU!! SIEG HU!!" don't have the same impact.

(as some little Chinese peasant on the sidelines sez
"What Hu talkin bout Rillis?"

[jpsb]

"The White House is overly anxious to avoid calling our policy toward China "containment."

This is a joke right, this administration is giving China our factories, our jobs, are technology and are money. All in the name of Free trade. Containment, that was the old policy before NAFTA. GATT and the WTO.

[redgolum]

We are going to have a big problem soon.

I expect after the 2008 Olympics, things will get interesting.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[Brian Allen]

<< China Building Military at Pace Last Seen in 1930s Germany
>>

For which we may all thank eight years of the traitors, Cli'ton.

BUMPping

[ponder life]

Despite all the negative postings, the reality is, the official US government stance is that the US welcomes the rise of China. There are efforts underway, not to contain China, but ensure that China participates in helping maintain the stability in the global trading system in which she is benefiting from.

Hence, the military exchanges that are going on now.

I personally believe there will come a day when the US will insist China help out in maintaining global security.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from May 24, 2006. Thanks neverdem.