"we can absorb it"
Posted on 09/27/2010 4:16:04 AM PDT by nuconvert
The greatest geopolitical development that has occurred largely beneath the radar of our Middle East-focused media over the past decade has been the rise of Chinese sea power. This is evinced by President Obama's meeting Friday about the South China Sea, where China has conducted live-fire drills and made territorial claims against various Southeast Asian countries, and the dispute over the Senkaku Islands between Japan and China in the East China Sea, the site of a recent collision between a Chinese fishing trawler and two Japanese coast guard ships.
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China has the world's second-largest naval service, after only the United States. Rather than purchase warships across the board, it is developing niche capacities in sub-surface warfare and missile technology designed to hit moving targets at sea. At some point, the U.S. Navy is likely to be denied unimpeded access to the waters off East Asia. China's 66 submarines constitute roughly twice as many warships as the entire British Royal Navy. If China expands its submarine fleet to 78 by 2020 as planned, it would be on par with the U.S. Navy's undersea fleet in quantity, if not in quality. If our economy remains wobbly while China's continues to rise -- China's defense budget is growing nearly 10 percent annually -- this will have repercussions for each nation's sea power. And with 90 percent of commercial goods worldwide still transported by ship, sea control is critical.
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It’s amazing how China’s military expansion has coincided with the expansion of the left in the West.
Amazing.
IMHO
They call themselves DEMOCRATS.
"we can absorb it"
Yes 40 yrs of systematic Infrastructure dismantling and technology transfers where a blur
Smart. They nation build their own nation while we nation build Iraq Afghanistan Haiti and the African continent.
translation: Being completely and purposely ignored by the idiot in the WH.
Title should read:
“With the factories, money and technology the U.S. outsourced to it via ‘free trade’, China develops sea power”
China is developing systems for total war, conventional and cyber war. Meanwhile, ozero is downgrading our military, weakening our economy, cutting off our fuel supples, flashing weakness to the world, almost inviting an attack, partying like a rock star all to the adoring praises of our so called media.
wow.
Whether or not the US is/was distracted, what exactly should have been or be done to curb China’s developing sea power?
I imagine it’s taken a lot longer than just 2 yrs for all this to happen.
I think its awesome that they’re using the $$ they make from selling us manufactured goods. And they’re making those manufactured goods with OUR factories that we willingly outsourced to them.
Between liberalism, political correctness and our relentless de-Industrialization, there are times when I think we are the biggest idiots in history.
Carbon credits anyone??
It’s something the clintons couldn’t sell to the Red Chinese.
On top of that, we’re tracking them as soon as they leave port.
Perhaps of interest.
How about, “Growing Chinese Navy Threatens U.S. Sea Power; Protectionists Say Boycott Wal-Mart.”
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