For the 1000th time.
[That statement was about China’s aircraft carriers.
For the 1000th time.]
JUDY WOODRUFF: Do you view China as a potential military threat to the United States?
HERMAN CAIN: “I do view China as a potential military threat to the United States”.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And what could you do as president to head that off?
HERMAN CAIN: “My China strategy is quite simply outgrow China. It gets back to economics. China has a $6 trillion economy and they’re growing at approximately 10 percent. We have a $14 trillion economy — much bigger — but we’re growing at an anemic 1.5, 1.6 percent. When we get our economy growing back at the rate of 5 or 6 percent that it has the ability to do, we will outgrow China”.
“And secondly, we already have superiority in terms of our military capability, and I plan to get away from making cutting our defense a priority and make investing in our military capability a priority, going back to my statement: peace through strength and clarity”.
“So yes they’re a military threat. They’ve INDICATED that they’re TRYING to develop NUCLEAR CAPIBILITY and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat”.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/herman-cains-epic-china-gaffe-2011-11#ixzz1cgMMYk9K
China conducted its first test of a nuclear device on October 16th... 1964.
Cain is the one who mentioned aircraft carriers.