HERMAN CAIN: I do view China as a potential military threat to the United States.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And what could you do as president to head that off?
HERMAN CAIN: My China strategy is quite simply outgrow China. It gets back to economics. China has a $6 trillion economy and they’re growing at approximately 10 percent. We have a $14 trillion economy — much bigger — but we’re growing at an anemic 1.5, 1.6 percent. When we get our economy growing back at the rate of 5 or 6 percent that it has the ability to do, we will outgrow China.
And secondly, we already have superiority in terms of our military capability, and I plan to get away from making cutting our defense a priority and make investing in our military capability a priority, going back to my statement: peace through strength and clarity. So yes they’re a military threat. They’ve indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.
What part of “They’ve indicated that they’re TRYING to develop nuclear capability” dont you understand?
You’d be just as likely to convince a clintonite that Bill was not “counselling” Monica. Can’t you see by the context that what Cain was really saying is “The chinese are trying to develop nuclear weapons on Pluto, which they don’t have yet.” Can’t you see that?
Trying to develop nuclear capability like we have is not the same thing as trying to acquire nukes for the first time.
Read much?
On their ships. That’s what I understood Mr. Cain to be saying.
Mr. Cain was talking about China wanting to put nuclear weapons on their ships. Not that they don’t have nukes.... but that they don’t have them on their ships like we do.