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US-China war 'inevitable' unless Washington drops demands over South China Sea
THE TELEGRAPH ^ | 05/26/15 | Julian Ryall

Posted on 05/26/2015 9:28:13 AM PDT by mulder1

China's forces will no longer be limited to defence of the nation's territory but will project its military power further beyond its borders at sea and more assertively in the air in order to safeguard its maritime possessions, the white paper states.

While the air force will shift focus from "territorial air defence" to both offence and defence, the Chinese army will increase its global mobility and its artillery will improve its "medium and long-range precision strikes", it said

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; inevitable; us; war
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To: Hot Tabasco

History is replete with incorrect assumptions that “It won’t happen because of ______.”


41 posted on 05/26/2015 10:49:38 AM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Actually it doesn't matter who the POTUS is - NO ONE is going to pick a fight with the PRC over their South China Sea imperialism, and they know it.

And it sure didn't matter who was president when the Tiananmen Square freedom demonstrations were ended in a massacre of 2,000 back in 1989. It was full speed ahead for the opening of China and increasing trade relations with the US.

Rumor was that GHWB had Brent Scrowcroft in Peking within hours after the massacre, assuring the communists that relations with the US would continue apace. And they did.

42 posted on 05/26/2015 10:53:35 AM PDT by Will88
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To: mrsmith

Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines and a whole lot of others will be getting their own nukes.
And this ass clown has made every country in the world leary of us.


43 posted on 05/26/2015 10:53:46 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: tcrlaf
Their manufacturing base is now MUCH larger than our

Where are they going to get the money to pay the employees who work in those plants once the revenues stop coming from us? Where are they going to get the food to feed the employees in those plants as well as the rest of their population and their military once we stop selling it to them?

44 posted on 05/26/2015 11:06:16 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (War IS the answer! Peace activists never liberated anything or anyone....)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Buy printing Renminbis?
Hey, it’s worked for us for 30 years...


45 posted on 05/26/2015 11:11:28 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Oliviaforever
I agree that the very final thing on their priority list is a war with the U.S. I think what they are looking for is some kind of back room deal, wink and nod agreement. etc., that they will be allowed to deal with the Philippines, Vietnam, etc., as they see fit in the next five years or so. The prospect of U.S. forces intervening is definitely a gigantic monkey wrench in their contingency planning, but if that could be removed then they would be masters of the South China Sea for the next several decades.
46 posted on 05/26/2015 11:17:22 AM PDT by aegiscg47
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47 posted on 05/26/2015 11:19:26 AM PDT by mulder1 ("Nec refert, quod acumen, qui luctatur arena eius")
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48 posted on 05/26/2015 11:28:19 AM PDT by mulder1 ("Nec refert, quod acumen, qui luctatur arena eius")
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To: mulder1

49 posted on 05/26/2015 11:37:47 AM PDT by mulder1 ("It is not the critic that matters")
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To: mulder1

Doing business with the Chinese has taught me two things.

One, don’t trust them when they make a promise.

Two, trust them when they make a threat.


50 posted on 05/26/2015 11:48:58 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: mulder1

Ah yes, the ex-Varyag. Navy Cross just waiting to happen.


51 posted on 05/26/2015 12:16:52 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Red Badger

OK, Hohumm, the Chinese are good at peddling bull shit and making products.

They are also really, really stupid.


52 posted on 05/26/2015 12:52:11 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (In an Oligarchy, the serfs don't count.)
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To: tcrlaf
Buy printing Renminbis?

Care to explain??????

53 posted on 05/26/2015 1:06:52 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (War IS the answer! Peace activists never liberated anything or anyone....)
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To: rbg81

I thought that in the seventies, too. Thank you, Richard Nixon.


54 posted on 05/26/2015 2:22:16 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: BenLurkin

Whomever took that photo, assuming it is not photoshopped, deserves a prize!


55 posted on 05/26/2015 2:24:15 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: mulder1

It’s a bluff. Too many of our allies around the Pacific Rim are ready to pounce with overwhelming force. China’s military facilities and infrastructure could be gone in a day.


56 posted on 05/26/2015 2:31:54 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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