Posted on 01/14/2008 5:35:06 PM PST by Flavius
BEIJING - China's top general sought to allay U.S. concerns Monday about his country's military buildup, but defended a decision late last year to deny Hong Kong port calls by an American aircraft carrier and other navy ships.
Gen. Chen Bingde, in charge of day-to-day operations for the 2.3 million-member People's Liberation Army, offered no new explanations as to why Beijing turned away the U.S. ships, a move that sparked consternation at the Pentagon.
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I suppose one would be to bypass India
and then 3rd to control the oil routes to Africa as a wild guess
remember the quote from RED DAWN the movie?
—”who started this war?”
—COLONEL:”when you’ve got the 2 biggest dogs on the block, there’s bound to be a fight.”
US and China are the 2 biggest dogs on the block, and we WILL have to duke it out eventually. There’s no escaping this.
HHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
~Smirk~
****Dramaqueen Alert****
The U.S. Navy was forced, by a “Freedom of Information” lawsuit, to release its data on Chinese submarine operations. The data showed that, while Chinese subs are putting to sea more often (a fact that has generated many headlines about the Chinese naval threat), they are still doing so much less than U.S. subs.
In 2007, American subs went to sea for long term operations (this is called “patrols”) seven times more often than Chinese boats. But the 55 Chinese subs went out on only six patrols in 2007, versus two in 2006 and none in 2005. Before that, through the 1990s, Chinese subs averaged 1.2 patrols a year. The one Chinese ballistic missile sub (SSBN) has never, in its 25 years of existence, gone out on a patrol.
This is not to say that the Chinese boats don’t go out at all, but these are largely day trips, moving off shore into the open water, in order to train and test the equipment. But this is no replacement for the long term (two months or more) tours American boats have been doing since World War II....the U.S. nuclear submarine fleet contains more than half the nuclear boats in service worldwide...While the Chinese are building more subs, they are not training with them. Why is that? Partly it’s a matter of money, partly it’s the poorly maintained equipment. But mostly it’s fear of embarrassment. Over the last few years, there have been several disastrous accidents involving Chinese subs at sea. These were usually just the day trips for training. Boats broke down, sailors died (in one case, an entire crew). But the Chinese have to go to sea a lot more before they become a serious threat to the United States. -StrategyPage
I'm sure Keating bent over for the Chinese general after this was said.
They’d like to gun us down, I’d presume.
Since US ships are not allowed in Hong Kong maybe Chinese ships should be baned from an American port say Los Angeles.
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What do I win?
Not necessarily. You have to take into the consideration that nuclear weapons have greatly reduced the likelihood of direct conflict between nuclear states as it tremendously increases the potential costs involved of such a conflict. Then there is the fact that do to the global economy and large trade between the two countries, there is little incentive for other China or us to go to war as there is far too much to lose and little, if anything, to gain.
chicom bump for later
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