China a worldwide military threat

The Orange County Register ^ | 2/06/2007 | Peter Navarro

[Paul Ross]

If China shooting down one of its old satellites in a ballistic missile test isn't a shot heard round the world, it should be. The question every politician and consumer of cheap Chinese goods should be asking themselves is: Just what kind of military monster are we creating by supporting the Chinese economy?

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[Paul Ross]

Paging the so-called "Adults" in the White House.

Time to stop listening to Thomas P.M. Barnett and the Wall Street Juvenile Delinquents.

[unkus]

It's going to come back and bite us big time.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

We aren't protecting our borders, so any Chinese agent who wish to come here unannounced are welcome.

Every two years or so it seems that we have a new "Spy of the Century" that has been draining secrets from the NSA or CIA to Russia or China.

In order to "compete" in China we have ever more liberal trade laws in order to transfer massive amounts of latest/greatest technology to China.

Major corporations are locating their assembly and manufacturing plants in areas that are wide-open to Chinese spying.

Chinese students are welcomed into our universities to participate in and learn all the leading edge physics they can possibly hope to know.

All of this makes sense if China is not a threat, or if we no longer consider ourselves to be a distinct nation.

[Dallas59]

No massive protests from the Moonbats on this?

[unkus]

But the Moonbats hate Wal-Mart.

[PghBaldy]

We have been paying for the weapons that will probably be used against us.

[rbg81]

The question every politician and consumer of cheap Chinese goods should be asking themselves is: Just what kind of military monster are we creating by supporting the Chinese economy?

Duh! It never ceases to amaze me how we have thrown our common sense to the wind just to reap some temporary profits. Unfortunately, that's been the American disease for the last 35 years on a whole host of issues: China, free trade, immigration, our industrial base, etc.

[backtothestreets]

The Chinese won't use their military against the USA. They'll use it against other nations as necessary, but not the USA. They won't have such a need as they already possess the greatest "weapon" to use against us, our government debt!

People in the USA howled angrily in the eighties when Japanese companies were gobbling up US companies and real estate. China has well surpassed that by essentially buying up our government and it hardly raises a whisper.

[353FMG]

Naaah, you worry too much. They are our good trading partners and they need us to sell their goods to - we need them as much as they need us. Just ask any American industrial giant.

(I refuse to say if my comment is made tongue in cheek or in earnest)

[word_warrior_bob]

Duh, no kidding they are a rising threat.

We will remain impotent and sheltered while China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc. continue to flex their muscles, build their military and conspire against us.

Any democrat President will accellerate this process rapidly, leaving us in a vulnerable, defensive posture. We will then be at the whim of these evil coalitions. The left wants us to "equal" (read defenseless) with evil regimes, as does the U.N.

Only a Ronald Reagan type approach can stem this inevitable slide.

[kactus]

I have read this forum for years, but this thread had me finally figure out a way to register.

We live in a border town and the railroad is looking to get options for an easement. A neighbor called and enlightened us saying get on the computer and look up things like corridor, Punta Colonet, containers, trucks, deep sea port, Project Thomas. Different combinations of words bring up different articles.

In a nutshell, Chinese $$$ is backing the new deep sea port to rival Long Beach on Baja. They are also backing the railroad which is part of CANAMEX Corridor running continuously from Mexico to Canada. The corridor will be used to carry millions and millions of containers full of "Asian" goods.

It looks to me like governors of the various states are working in concert to bring this corridor through their states and are doing it mainly by executive orders. Somehow, we the people are not part of the process.

The TransTexas Corridor will be bringing goods from other ports financed by the same $$$ source but from ports on mainland Mexico.

[timer]

Before Pearl Harbor/WW II, shipload after shipload of US scrap metal was transiting the Panama Canal, bound for Japan. One guy observed : What you see as just a pile of junk/scrap metal there now, will be coming back at us as Jap BOMBS soon enough. Those who don't LEARN the lessons and cycles of history are doomed to repeat them...

[Colorado Doug]

The TransTexas Corridor will be bringing goods from other ports financed by the same $$$ source

I have suspected that for some time. The money appears to be nicely laundered through Australia first.

[steel_resolve]

I found this to be the interesting paragraph:

Perhaps the ultimate danger of an ultramodern Chinese military is to China itself. The apparent preeminence of the Communist Party notwithstanding, there is growing tension between the government and the military over both foreign and domestic policy. A coup that put the military in firm control would dramatically ratchet up world tensions, particularly if that military were equipped with weapons and technologies comparable to ours.

[Thunder90]

Also, Russia is rebuilding its military with its oil money, and using the excuse that we are building a missile shield to do it.

[Thunder90]

At the same time, Russia and China buys up all of the world's oil supplies and conspires to raise prices on it together.

[Thunder90]

This is strange. It is also happening in the Former Soviet Union. The Red Army wants to reconstitute itself and bring back Communism in the Former USSR, and the Chinese military is not pleased with Hu Jintao's more liberal policies compared with the older members of the Politboro in China. Same thing with Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

[Edgewood Pilot]

Welcome to Free Republic !

[jonassen]

At the same time, Russia and China buys up all of the world's oil supplies and conspires to raise prices on it together.

That makes no sense.... China is the world second largest consumer of oil. Raising world oil prices would hurt China's economy. These theories are beginning to sound like leftist conspiracies.

[jonassen]

This is strange. It is also happening in the Former Soviet Union. The Red Army wants to reconstitute itself and bring back Communism in the Former USSR, and the Chinese military is not pleased with Hu Jintao's more liberal policies compared with the older members of the Politboro in China.

You got it completely backwards for China. The Chinese military is rather right-wing and pro economic reform. Hu Jintao on the other hand is more of an old school Communist as he rose to power in the Communist Youth League. This is why you have been seeing more internet and journalistic censorship etc since Hu Jintao came to power.

Guess who has benefitted greatly from China's two decades of economic reforms? The Chinese military. Any coup from the Chinese military would install someone right-of-center to the Chinese leadership, not a diehard Communist.