Is Oceania at war with The East again?
And we're dumping multi-millions down the rat hole in Iraq in some pipe dream that we're going to create a democratic utopia in the Middle East. All the while, China is arming to the teeth, stealing our weapons technology, and building an economy that we're funding.
Some of Bush's notions remind me of the overreach and hubris that helped bring down the British Empire.
We better start taking China as a serious threat. What really makes me mad is that our government knew that Clinton sold our super computers with all of our defense information in them to China, and none of them did a darn thing about it. You know he pocketed a lot of money for himself too.
China has to know that when they fire a nuke at Los Angeles that there will be a response. At least they won't have to worry about population control for a long time.
This strikes me as a bit hysterical WRT China's supposed future plans. China certainly has the ability to become a formidable world power, yet throughout their long history they have been anything but expansionist.
China is becoming more dependent on the world economy, than the world economy is dependent on China. They have probably already crossed the point of no return where they have more to lose than they have to gain. IMHO.
War between the US and China would be mutual suicide. Probably other old enemies would also be zapped and civilization would start over after about 1000 years.
Well Duh. Bid red truck..
"China faces a military threat from no one, so why the firepower?"
Heh... the US... Taiwan... Japan... Vietnam (China invaded Vietnam -- briefly -- in the late 1970s)... Pakistan (a nuclear power, lest we forget)... India (also nuclear, and China's traditional enemy; China supports Maoist terrorists in the Himalayas)... Russia... the former SSRs of Central Asia... China's Moslem population... the Tibetans... China's Chinese population... the political enemies within the Party...
One of the consequences of a centrally managed single party state is that it's a centrally managed single party state.