Pentagon: China's military power growing

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/16/10 | Anne Flaherty - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon says China's military power is on the rise as it pursues more land-based missiles and attack submarines, and that the secrecy of its drive increases the risk of miscalculation.

The annual military assessment was released Monday. It comes at a time of strained U.S. relations with Beijing.

[ConservativeMan55]

Where’s that Captain Obvious graphic?

[ConservativeMan55]

[b4its2late]

[chipper dave]

How long before they are running military exercises off of our coasts or Hawaii?

[GraceG]

What about the superhero duo of “Captain Oblivious and the Master of the Obvious”?

[ConservativeMan55]

bump to that

[WellyP]

Dear China:

If you take out one of our carriers, we take your BIG ASS DAM!

Your move!

U. Sam

[Peter from Rutland]

In other developments today, the sun rose this morning and will fall this evening.

[brownsfan]

“How long before they are running military exercises off of our coasts or Hawaii?”

Forget that, how long before they call Hawaii one of their home ports?

[chipper dave]

15 years ago we heard Japan had bought it up.

[chipper dave]

Interesting you brought up the dam. A few years ago their was a special about how difficult it can be to destroy a dam. This special was based on the attempts to destroy some during WWII.

[brownsfan]

“15 years ago we heard Japan had bought it up.”

Are you trying to say this is the same kind of thing?

[Random Access]

How long before they are running military exercises off of our coasts or Hawaii?

The real question is how long before they are running military exercises on Lake Tahoe.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“The real question is how long before they are running military exercises on Lake Tahoe. “

We might get lucky and they would take out lower Manhattan. Then they could deal with the Muzzies.

[RC2]

And the reason China is increasing its military size is????? Mean while, we are cutting our military......why?

[gandalftb]

The Chinese are very crafty. The problem is that they won't buy weapons or goods from us like the Saudi's are doing.

The Chinese are not anyones trading partners, they only sell their products and hoard currency/gold and lend the money back. Acquiring wealth and dictating terms has always been their historical strategy. I believe the Vietnamese are the only ones to successfully resist the hegemony of the Chinese.

[WellyP]

15 KTs on the end of a BIG bunker buster, 400 meters upstream and the dam is history!

[chipper dave]

No, how could it be?

[chipper dave]

In this documentary the pilots, I believe they were British, were trying to drop big round ball bombs that would roll on top of the water to hit the dam walls and explode.