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To: Sun

what is the point? with the ussc decisions today and last week i may as well move to china.



21 posted on 06/27/2005 7:56:50 AM PDT by kpp_kpp
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Maybe reading this article by Bill Gertz will give us the incentive to AT LEAST not buy Chinese products.

Here's a few snippets:

Chinese dragon awakens
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
June 26, 2005
Part I

China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials.

China's economy has been growing at a rate of at least 10 percent for each of the past 10 years, providing the country's military with the needed funds for modernization.

For Pentagon officials, alarm bells have been going off for the past two years as China's military began rapidly building and buying new troop- and weapon-carrying ships and submarines.

http://www.washtimes.com/specialrep...22138-1088r.htm

Read the whole article; it's not that long.


23 posted on 06/27/2005 8:00:37 AM PDT by Sun (Call the U.S. SELL-OUT senators toll-free, 1-877-762-8762 & give 'em "heck.")
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