We'll see if they are different this time. Frankly I think they are afraid of being "contaminated".
Historians instruct us that it was internal politicking that killed off the Chinese navy 500 years ago. The mandarins, jealous of power, knifed the admirals -- it took them 100 years to finish the job, but when they were done the mandarins celebrated by presenting the (clueless?) emperor with a great stone ship in a lake on the palace grounds, as a tribute, ostensibly, to China's voyages of discovery, but in reality a low-fiving mandarin office-political victory trophy.
Cost China her future, but that the hell. This was about leadership! You can't trust the country's future to a bunch of rough-cut sailors. What the hell do they know about policy? No law degrees, no degrees in government, and some of them were even from Wasilla.
Trust me, they are not going to turn their backs on “the barbarians” this time around.
Let’s have a little perspective here. If we consider what the Chinese have accomplished in a scant 30 years and project what the next 30 years could bring, we should be VERY AFRAID.
Within the next 10 years, either the bankrupt British (the British economy did not grow last year) or the bankrupt French will share the secrets of constructing an aircraft carrier with them. Within the next 20 years, the bankrupt US will complete that knowledge.
Trust me, they are not going to turn their backs on “the barbarians” this time around.
Let’s have a little perspective here. If we consider what the Chinese have accomplished in a scant 30 years and project what the next 30 years could bring, we should be VERY AFRAID.
Within the next 10 years, either the bankrupt British (the British economy did not grow last year) or the bankrupt French will share the secrets of constructing an aircraft carrier with them. Within the next 20 years, the bankrupt US will complete that knowledge.