Posted on 01/20/2014 3:54:30 PM PST by Nachum
With China increasingly in the news involving some new diplomatic or geopolitical escalation, a new territorial claim, the launch of a brand new aircraft carrier, or just general chatter of military tensions surrounding the aspirational reserve currency superpower, it is time for yet another update of the complete "military and security developments involving the people’s republic of China", courtesy of the annual report to Congress discussing precisely this issue.
The only Org Chart that matters:
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China will fight its war in part with bags of money under the table.
When they take the islands they are after, our politicians will bluster and shout, and move aircraft carriers around the map. But they will not interfere.
If they do decide to strike us, with a nuke to a west coast city, they’ll probably get some arabs to do it. So we’ll be too busy exacting revenge on them to bother with what China is doing to some tiny spits of coral in the South China Sea.
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