Why bother warning us over China's military build-up, while dismantling ours?
Any parallels to what the RATS did to our military after WWII and before Korea?
No kidding, Sherlock!
Hell, I could have told them this years ago...and it wouldn’t have cost a dime.
Duh!
Yeah but, does Walmart still have toasters on sale for $9.99? /sarc
China will have the finest military we've ever paid for.
The final axis of evil: Russia, China, Iran/Islam.
...to give some idea of their man power potential: the CIA reports that 10 million men a year become draft eligible in China.
Alright, so we may end up under communist domination, broke, broken, and the last light of freedom in the world snuffed out, but by Golly we've got all these Happy Meal Toys to sell in eBay...
*** How’s that “free trade” thing working out so far? ***
Shhhhh... you’re not supposed to remember that the shove that got the snowball rolling down the hill was free trade.
Now hush up and find something else to blame.
Well, if we let them have Taiwan, maybe they'll keep on lending us money to buy highway signs praising the bailout.
April 30, 2001 - Russian military forces intervened in a mock nuclear conflict between China and the United States over Taiwan during strategic exercises that included Russian preparations to use nuclear weapons on U.S. forces in Asia, The Washington Times has learned.I actually quit keeping track because I know it is inevitable.Russian forces help China in mock conflict
Feb 2002 - China's military is covertly buying U.S. commercial satellite photographs of Taiwan that U.S. intelligence officials say will be used to target the island with the mainland's growing arsenal of cruise and ballistic missiles. Satellite photographs of most of the island are being purchased by China through a South Korean company, U.S. intelligence officials say.
Nov 2003 - In a tough statement, the Vice-Minister at Beijing's Taiwan Affairs Office Wang Zaixi said Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's recent pro-separatist activities had crossed Beijing's "red line" and that they "run the risk of triggering a war" with the mainland. "War will break out if the island declares formal independence," state media on Wednesday quoted Wang as saying.
July 26, 2004 - About 18,000 Chinese troops using their country's most advanced weapons systems last week rehearsed coordinated air, sea and ground attacks on Dongshan, an island in the South China Sea that resembles Taiwan in terrain and weather.
Feb 7, 2005 - Quietly, with almost no notice taken in the U.S. media, Russia and China have just stepped up their military cooperation to a level not seen in half a century since the end of the Korean War.
Mar 8, 2005 — China unveiled a law Tuesday authorizing an attack if Taiwan moves toward formal independence, increasing pressure on the self-ruled island while warning other countries not to interfere.
June 26, 2005 - 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. U.S. defense and intelligence officials say all the signs point in one troubling direction: Beijing then will be forced to go to war with the United States, which has vowed to defend Taiwan against a Chinese attack.
June 28, 2005 - China's decision to open up massive bomb shelters to the public, ostensibly to provide a respite from summer heat, has U.S. intelligence analysts concerned about a possible strategic deception by Beijing, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The Chinese specialist agreed with others knowledgeable about nuclear arms that such a maneuver – opening up large fallout shelters to the public on a regular basis would serve two strategic purposes for Beijing: It would familiarize the Chinese people to the shelters, making it easier to evacuate the public in times of potential nuclear attack; It would confuse Western intelligence analysts who monitor movements of the Chinese public by satellite as evidence of the government's intentions; In addition to monitoring missile launches, U.S. national security officials keep an eye on large-scale public movements in countries like China. If, for instance, city residents were seen moving in large numbers into fallout shelters, it would be a sign the government might be preparing for an attack of some kind.
But if such massive movements became routine – because shelters are opened up in the heat of summer and in the cold of winter to provide shelters from the elements – then such movements would more likely be disregarded as militarily insignificant in the West.
"Think about it," said one U.S. intelligence source. "If you were planning, at some point in the future, to launch a pre-emptive first strike on some enemy, wouldn't it make sense to do what the Chinese are doing?"
Anyone else hear a drum beat?
Time to head back to ‘Nam...
Oooooo, that'll keep them shaking in their flip-flops!! The paper tiger is 'warning" them.
I'd laugh if I could stop crying long enough at the destruction of this once great nation by the Obots!!
-attributed to Khruschev
We have have rigid trade sanctions against North Korea, but not against their enaber, China. Its is like ducttaping over a faucet instead of turning off the water.