Ah, but that is not what TigerEye said.
TigerEye said, and it is a righteous fact, that no country is going to attack China.
Chinas security is in her own hands. The only war that China would face is the one she starts.
If, as you firmly believe, she will not start a war, then there won't be one.
Defense Minster Liang is being provocative and dare I might say... War mongering?
Is there no wise leader in Beijing who can reel him in? It makes the rest of us think that which you so firmly state will never occur!
Well, no, not outright. He said this instead:
When you provoke war in every direction you ought to prepare for war from every direction.
How else am I suppose to interpret it? And please don't split hairs. But what he was implying, is that China will be the one that provokes conflict, i.e., start the war. And that, I don't believe will happen.
Defense Minster Liang is being provocative and dare I might say... War mongering?
I don't believe so. He's just saying the nation should be ready to defend itself. China's build up of her military capabilities is not out of proportion to her growing economic strength. China, after all, has a GDP that is now larger than Japan. Does it not make sense that her military capabilities and her ability to defend herself reflect it? And when you consider purchasing power parity (PPP), is more than twice the size of Japan.
And some economic forcasters predict China will have the largest economy as early as 2020 using nominal figures and even sooner using PPP measures. So, China isn't allocating her national resources beyond a reasonable proportion, e.g., North Korea, etc.
And China's dependence on foreign sources for commodities and energy make it more vital that she is able to defend against disruptions in the flow of those resources.