Posted on 03/04/2023 11:12:11 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan
March 4 (UPI) -- China needs to increase its military budget to "fulfill its responsibility as a major country," a Beijing official said Saturday ahead of the nation's annual National People's Congress.
NPC spokesman Wang Chao made the comments as China's national legislature prepared to convene on Sunday and meet through March 13.
In his remarks, Wang did not elaborate on the size of the budget he was referring to, which is expected to be unveiled during the first official day of the congress, but emphasized the move is not meant to ratchet up conflict with the United States.
The annual meeting comes at a time of increased tension between China and the United States amidst escalating tensions with Taiwan, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and following the downing of a Chinese spy balloon that flew over U.S. territory.
The beefed-up defense spending "is not intended as a threat to any country but will be a positive force for safeguarding regional stability and world peace," Wang said.
He mainly touted Chinese unity Saturday during the opening ceremony of the legislature's standing committee, known as Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, asserting Beijing has "reached out" to people in Taiwan and is "encouraging dialogue" with Hong Kong citizens, Bloomberg reported.
During the Congress, Chinese government officials are expected be rotated out of their positions, including Premier Li Kequiang, who will be replaced by Li Quiang after delivering a final report on China's economy on Sunday.
Chinese business leaders, including Li Shufu of carmaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., a car manufacturer, and Lei Jun, of smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi Corp., spoke about technological innovations within China.
On Tuesday, the newly appointed Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang is scheduled to hold a press conference.
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China needs to build up their military sufficient to oust Russia from Siberia and then hold it.
War is a horrible thing.
One wonders why the Chinese
want to start something they are so bad at?
History is your friend and teacher.
It is sad they are trying to bribe our people to teach them how to fight a war.
They have zero need to boost their military except for offense.
Wars begin when the aggressor thinks they'll win quickly. In 1914, everybody was saying it would be over by Christmas. Well, they were right...Christmas of 1918.
Hitler figured he'd smash Poland, and then Britain and France would come begging for peace.
I wonder if this could be linked to the World Police sending weapons to Taiwan and $$$$ to politicians who support “separation”.
Official US policy regarding China/Taiwan is “one state”. This is the policy adopted by the entire world and most likely includes Taiwanese.
Heads up to you people in Taiwan. Don’t allow yourselves to wind up like the US backed former state of Ukraine.
The PRC doesn’t want a shooting war. They want hegemony, meaning dominance, a measure of control and convenient access to resources and customers. They effectively want “colonies”. “Colonies” to exploit for resources, intellectual property and to be a “captured market” for their goods. A shooting war would mess all that up and be ruiniously expensive. They want revenge for what they consider to be 300- 400 years of exploitation and humiliation. They want the West - the Bauzios to acknowledge Chinese cultural and racial superiority. People on this site rant and rave about Nazi this and Nazi that in regard to the Russo-Ukraine War and miss the real Nazis- the PRC. Some of the leadership there particularly the military leadership have given speeches that if you substitute Han for Aryan\German and Jew for Westerners\Bazsios you would think you were in 1930s Germany.
The PRC has been working toward their goals by exploiting the greed & lack of patriotism of our politicians and institutions. So far its been working well.
If the US wouldn’t spend nearly three times as much as the Chicoms on defense, maybe they wouldn’t find such a need to bump up their own spending.
China always considered themselves a superior race (for thousands of years).
They even support the radical idea of not discriminating against ethnic Chinese in education or employment.
Shocking!
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Yes, the “Middle Kingdom” has a “special” relationship with the “divine realm.” The “barbarian nations” don’t. The “barbarian nations” on China’s border are inferior but tolerable. The further from the border, the more intolerable and the more inferior.
Wars begin when the aggressor thinks they’ll win quickly. In 1914, everybody was saying it would be over by Christmas. Well, they were right...Christmas of 1918.
Ukraine 2022, too. Putin has been getting smoke blown up his behind for so long that he thinks he’s Peter now.
Eureka! That means China wouldn't have even invaded Tibet if US would have simply halted its military spending in 1950!
Amazing!
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