Well, I'm not a communist. Show me, in my postings where I promotie communisn?
It seems truly to be advancing the politboro talking points 100%.
Well....what are the poliburo's talking points? From my perspective, I don't see anything wrong, with a nation of China, moving forward. And that includes developing a peace time military that is COMMENSURATE WITH A NATION FOR ITS SIZE IN POPULATION.
Only the mods I suppose, know if it's posting from Beijing.
I'm posting from the US and have nothing to be ashamed of. Nothing I've posted for the last 10 years and maybe a thousand or two postings later have ever been anti American or pro Communist.
Whatever.
I take it back, you are not a commie lover. No you are just a commie.
You have an odd way of expressing yourself, that often does not sit well with American conservatives.
Remember, if you express sympathy for the struggles of ordinary Chinese to overcome the shackles of their oppressive central government and achieve a more prosperous future -- then we agree entirely.
But if you express sympathy for the totalitarian Chi-Com government's efforts to more thoroughly control its people, or expand its power to Taiwan or any other foreign territory, then you will get blasted here -- and rightly so.
So I noted this quote:
ponder life from post #133: "If China was a developed nation (which she likely will achieve in about 30 years), a commensurate number of carriers with Britain would be 44 (forty four) Queen Elizabeth class carriers.
China, of course, doesn't need that many to defend herself.
But I feel China has a right to build, say 8-10."
"a right"? What does that mean, "a right"?
As a sovereign state, China has "a right" to build thousands of aircraft carriers, if that's what it wants.
The proper question is: when do those carriers, and the programs to build them, become threats to China's neighbors, and what is the necessary response to such threats?
So, ponder life, for you to insist on a "right" for China to build 8 to 10 carriers (why not 80 to 100?), is to suggest something deeply wrong with your way of thinking.
In what sense does China need any carriers?
Is China today seriously threatened by some powerful new military force?
Has some other nation asked China to protect them? If so, from whom?
Obviously, the answers are "no and no."
So China's new carriers are simply exercises in self-glorification and intimidation of her neighbors, who can only respond by building more carriers of their own.
And who benefits from all these new carriers?
Certainly not the Chinese people who, like Americans, should be fully focused on reducing the size, cost and authority of their bloated and oppressive central government.