Posted on 04/09/2007 10:26:55 AM PDT by Paul Ross
Agree 100%.
People who live in Communist countries are a funny lot. They are quick to complain about the US but if you point out an error from their country, they are incredulous. They can’t fathom that anyone would dare to question their country. It is simply not allowed.
When religious groups knock on my door, I see the same treatment. I always start off by asking “What don’t you like about your church?”. Sometimes they leave skid marks.
China has much more potential than the United States on account of its much larger population.
Back to the first point:
All nations, including the United States, serve at God's whim, and God decides which nation will be great and for how long.
Americans should still work to try to keep American dominance as long as they can. Enlarged United States of America.
Perhaps “mr fraser” could tell everyone which group has fought tooth and nail against America having anti-satellite capability
Rather christian, republican and Christian.
Actually, it appears with our continuing hemhorraging of industrial...and military...secrets to Red China, it is likely that it is our own people that refuse to think outside the box and recognize a serious threat.
Remember the Cox Commission and the loss of the W-88 design, the Neutron Bomb, and God only knows what else [perhaps even Excalibur]? The loss of the SuperMagnet industry (Magnequench)? The Loss of our Aegis Phased Array radar technology? The loss of a wide range of ship-queiting motor and electronics technology? The loss just recently of our operational technology or missile interception on the Aegis ships? The loss of our B-2 thermal stealth technology? The loss of the passive radar technique for stealth-plane-detection? The loss of the science behind detecting our submarines by satellites using Synthetic Aperature Radars. The loss of the Terfenol-D technology (superior sonars, and a wide variety of immensely valuable other uses). The loss of our GPS technology? And oh, the loss of our manufacturing, not just the technology of our "Night Vision" equipment [ITT fined $100 million]?
And the attempted "poaching" of the Metal-Storm inventor...and his family for a paltry $100 million.
These are just some things which have surfaced to the MSM. What do you want to bet that they are simply the Tip of the Iceberg?
They routinely "Flood the Zone" of our vital-advantage technologies with thousands upon thousands of their "technology students" ...and they waltz off with it Scot-Free.
If America continues its moral slide into complete decadence, it will also be torn down or more likely, rot from within.
China poses a huge risk to this country.
Freeman takes the point of view that China isn't a threat because it will be generally peaceful.
Hawkins recognizes the threat, but primarily from a militaristic (rather than an economic and cultural along with militaristic view).
Freeman does point out that Asia is the "natural" leading continent, Europe only taking the fore in the last half millennium or so, and North America for a some measly sixty years (Rome probably gave Han China a run for its money, though--still some of the Roman Empire was in Asia, and that continent included some of Rome's wealthiest provinces).
Wether less-well-made or not...the seriousness of the threat is what has to be understood.
E.g., regarding "dangerousness" ...Not half as dangerous as being on the ships within the range of their torpedoes...as the U.S. carrier flagship of the Panda-Hugging Admiral who was suitably embarrassed....and demanded to know, in effect, "What's the Meaning of this, don't you know we're trying mighty hard to appease you Chi-Comms???"
There is a very obnoxious PRC bootlicking, anti Taiwanese, anti Japanese, and ostensibly, anti Western, forumite who goes by “freeman” over at the Asiawind “Our World” forum. Based on what this cat stated in the above article, I am inclined to think he’s the same Freeman.
What do you mean our nightmares?
A search revealed that there were references to corruption, unemployment, revolution, pollution, or unrest. Which China is this guy writing about?
One more unemployed, one more ton of pollution, one more yuan pocketed by a corrupt Party cadre village leader and -- it could happen -- KA-BOOM!
We've lived through sagging dollars, recessions, inflation, stagnation, stagflation -- that's our "nightmare." The Chi-Coms' nightmare is KA-BOOM! All the things and more that brought Mao's revolution to power and ended the Nationalist government are there. Tick, tick, tick. . . .
Rome was not democratic, but it did achieve greatness and dominance. China will not achieve greatness if she cannot eliminate nepotism and corruption. Two weaknesses in her society that lead to the downfall of all her dynasties with the exception of Chin and Yuan and Communist Rule is a dynasty. China is not ready for democracy because 90 percent of her people are rural poor and only 10 percent are middle class or better and they live in the coastal cities. If China became democratic, she will go the way of Venezeula because the pent up resentment of the well to do by the majority rural poor will lead her to “mob” socialism. China’s expansion will be limited by energy and a large elderly population that will be a burden on the smaller younger population (due to elderly longevity and the one child policy). All the Asian Tigers (except Japan) had authoritarian governments that presided over economic expansion and modernization, and once a large middle class is established, the authoritarian government either relinquished to democracy or were driven out. Democracy without a large middle class will lead to Venezeuala mob rule.
Until Japan did it in the late 1800s, no Asian power has ever, in history, been able to exploit technology, commercialize and mass produce it, the way the West has done. We now see a few imitators of the Japanese success but that’s all they really are. This flaw has been the demise of the long term power of would be Asian hegemons. This is what makes the current era so troubling. Now, would be Asian hegemons seem to have, in a Germany or Stalinist Russia like manner, treated both military and non military technology. We face things never before experienced, the outcome of which is not likely to be good.
Over the course of its 1000+ years it was just about everything one time or another.
China can only sink into depravity as they murder their young and rid themselves of their females.
Sounds like the Chicago Cubs...
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