Posted on 04/09/2007 10:26:55 AM PDT by Paul Ross
“Gee, I guess Freeman hasn’t seen some of the posts here where there are always a few who still do....”
There’s a difference between dismissing the PLA as a junkyard army and dismissing the idea that it is — or will be for decades — even a remote peer of the United States. For some reason there are always a few who can’t accept that difference.
“China has much more potential than the United States on account of its much larger population.”
I’ve never, ever understood this line of reasoning. It has never made sense historically. Its huge population could work against it just as easily over the longer term. If mere population size was the dictator of potential, history would look quite vastly different.
All of the mentioned civilizations in the earlier bulleted post had (comparatively) huge populations, if not the largest population in their region. Both the Roman Empire and Ancient China were estimated to have a quarter of the global population, each. Western Europe "picked up steam" (appropriate for this sentence) after the Industrial Revolution allowed for an immense increase in population (more medicinal practices, more food, etc.). There is a large correlation between population and power.
China should, of course, try to be the greatest country on Earth. We should expect that everyone will do that, and that every country will think highly of themselves. There’s nothing wrong with that.
Of course we will make sure they don’t succeed at it because we’ll be better :-)
I have read that some of the reasons that China stagnated are:
1) Their curtailment of China’s naval exploration centuries ago;
2) Confucius-ism is a positive and a negative for Chinese culture. The negative side of it was that Confucius-ism created a kind of tunnel vision. Education was focused on memorization, contrary to Western Enlightenment and the Socratic and Scientific methods. 3) The Chinese language is written with pictograms, and requires an enormous effort to learn (Western languages are phonetic based). 4) Contrary to European civilization, China became more isolated and failed to adapt by absorbing the best of foreign cultures, as did the West.
molon labe
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NEVER FORGET
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Then CLINTON National Security Advisor SANDY BERGER, after he had already been Chief Washington D.C. Lobbyist for the Communist Chinese,
...went on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ to “guarantee” the American People that there was “no way” the Communist Chinese could get our precious Missile and Space Satellite technology while launching U.S. Space Satellites from inside Communist China.
Which they, of course, prompty did.
For,
...the Enemy is now Within...
...and always has been.
And is planning to once again occupy our Oval Office for America’s last time.
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NEVER FORGET
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Lesson for these morons: Geopolitics in not a zero sum game in a multipolar world.
This gives the lie to Freeman. He is essentially ignorant of the totalitarian , autocratic, dictatorial, cultural foundation , which is the natural cultural condition of China's hierarchical society. For that reason, China can never be free, for it is bound not to the tree of liberty as is America, but instead is bound to the tree of totalitarianism, tyranny and hierarchy. It is a constant thread throughout China's history.
The West destroyed a decadent China, a corrupt hierarchy fell prey to Opium and all that went with the addictive dynamic of a drug which destroyed Chinese Society. It is the lasting stain on the Western nations, and China has not and will not forgive it, nor forget it.
China's plan for the West is one of hierarchical domination by whatever means available, hegemony, economic conquest, technological conquest. Any historian who thinks not . has got the blinkers of political correctness on, and fails in a distinct lack of candor, in realizing the truth.
Mark you all. China means little good for the West, which is meant by China to become an assembly of conquered tribute nations, bowing down to the Sons of Heaven. Anyone who thinks not is a liberal dreamer. It is a constant thread of China's history, and one which Tibet and the Dalia Lama ignored to their great and lasting peril.
War , according to Chinese tradition ( Sun Tzu) is the last , reluctant option for conquest, and conquest is steadfastly prosecuted in many other alternative routes.Witness China's traducement of the Clinton administration through campaign contributions, the death of Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown who would not toe the line on sensitive technology review which Clinton had shifted from the Department of State , to the Dept. of Commerce.
I have not been enlisted by a lobbyist. I just happen to know many Tibetans from Kham who live in the West. And from them I have heard the truth, and recognize it when I see it.
That is why this picture of president Bush in Mongolia, is so important, for it radiates that truth:
China Containment policy is of utmost important to the US. Freeman is a mere plenipotentiary which would subtly convince otherwise, for those who would buy Egg Fu Yung instead of freedom.
Japan has been under constant cultural attack over the last five years, because the Chinese do not want to eventually have to face a Japan that has regained its own offensive military capability, a necessity which is unavoidable. I hope the reemergence of a complete military function for Japan proceeds with all due haste.
Bump.
I would definitely restore the technological and financial containment policy that we pursued with the Soviet Union...and then go to the Reagan options...direct clash and political undermining.
The current trade complaints by the US against China are a weak, late start, but it has infuriated the Chinese.
I like it when the Chinese lose their cool.
This Freeman character is hardly an American in the ordinary sense. He actually in these sentences is thumbing his nose at our democratic republic. Perhaps he should take a seat between two burly US Marines on a long trans Pacific flight. We could arrange for the flight attendants to hand the Marines this article to read.
It would be Willy Whompa and the fudge factory all over the place on that flight.
Their plan is already working, we are dependant upon THEIR vitamins, we are being weakened internally by small amounts of poisons in many many different food additives.
Of course they will become greater than us eventually, unless we shut off the supply of products that are killing us slowly.
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