Posted on 05/25/2011 7:03:22 PM PDT by nuconvert
Visits to Beijing this week by top officials from North Korea, Myanmar, and Iran are spotlighting China's cozy ties with nations widely shunned for human rights abuses and threatening behavior.
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My, what company Chia Head keeps.
And Ireland, England, and France feted Obama.. coinkydink.. I think not.
A very good précis, with many good/accurate points.
It seems, unlike the Soviets of the Cold War, the Chinese are smarter, more savvy, more diplomatic & calculating. Maybe they’ve learned a few lessons from history.
The Chinese, unlike the Soviet Union, made building up it’s military a first priority and recruiting it’s best brains to work in their science department. Heck, even in Soviet Russia they didn’t care about gender as long as there was a brain inside the head. The Chinese, in their form of Communism, are not self destructive, but are and always have been, realists. They made their mistake with social engineering, but they have learned from it and are working like fiends to build thier country and successfully sustain it.
Yes. Military & Economy are overarching goals for PRC. At this stage, everything else revolves around those 2 areas.
I’d disagree with how China built up its military. Sure they did invest in weaponry, but in a calibrated manner. I’d say the Soviets focussed excessively on their military industry so much so that it has become an inefficient behemoth now. On the other hand, the Chinese navy was predominantly a coastal force until about 15 years ago; now they have taken advantage of the world’s largest shipbuilding industry to race ahead of most competitors. Same case with their aircraft and missile technologies. They focussed on building low-end systems for a very long time while waiting for research to mature; their Mig-21 variant was in production until about 5-6 years ago.
For these 50 JF-17’s, I bet Beijing had just put itself in an extremely difficult situation known as [being caught in between two rocks in a hard place] because she had just rejected a request by Kim for 30 of these http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2935931. I wonder if they might now be forced by circumstances to fulfill Kim’s demands.
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