'Nuff posted.
Posted on 08/13/2010 4:44:31 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
BEIJING: A Chinese General on Friday termed as "flagrant provocation" US plans to send a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Yellow Sea and said the country would retaliate if "offended".
"A country needs respect, so does a military. We will retaliate if we are offended," Major General Luo Yuan, deputy secretary-general of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Academy of Military Sciences, wrote in an editorial in the PLA Daily.
The US is "pushing its security boundary to the doorstep of others — the Yellow Sea, South China Sea and so on," Luo said.
China had in the recent weeks voice its firm opposition to activities of foreign military vessels or planes in the Yellow Sea and China's coastal waters, saying they undermine it security interests. Despite China's warning, the US insists on sending the carrier ‘USS George Washington', he said
The General was reacting to remarks by Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, that the carrier will always go into international waters.
China is developing a new missile called Dong Feng 21D, that could penetrate the defenses of even the most advanced aircraft carrier at a distance of more than 1,500 km.
Apparently:
Chinese 'Carrier-Killer' Missile Could Reshape Sea Combat
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/06/chinese-carrier-killer-missile-game-changer-expert-says/
"The emerging Chinese anti-ship missile capability, and in particular the DF 21D, represents the first post-Cold War capability that is both potentially capable of stopping our naval power projection -- and deliberately designed for that purpose," said Patrick Cronin, senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the nonpartisan, Washington-based Center for a New American Security."
Agreed.
It’s like being alive in 1930, and seeing clearly what was about to unfold.
Trying to warn people.
That their world was about to collapse.
It’s like everyone is hypnotized. Even smart people are asleep, and frankly DETERMINED not to wake up.
Wake up people.
'Nuff posted.
Let us consider freedom of the seas, the right of innocent passage, and so on. Our ChiCom general apparently is not up on his international law when applied to the sea.
So once we’ve finished sending all our manufacturing and technology to China.
After we’re broke, and unable to match China’s ever-growing military.
Who says there will be “international law”?
What would happen if they sunk one of our carriers? In one move, China would alter the balance of global power.
That’s part of it.
What people are not grasping, is that China is already altering the balance of world power.
And we are doing absolutely nothing to stop, or even slow that process.
We are SLEEPING.
AND WE WILL RETALIATE WITH A STRONGLY WORDED LETTER!
“We are SLEEPING.”
Just like Europe did in the mid thirties. You know how that ended.
I despise the chicoms... and their agents post here on FR.
LLS
He does grovel well.
LLS
What thin-skinned, petulant whiners the ChiComs are. Everything they have they stole from their betters.
“The emerging Chinese anti-ship missile capability, and in particular the DF 21D,”
Ok. Then fire a damn torpedo.
Chinese DF-21D
Import ban. Magnificent.
0bama is looking for a plausible excuse to have military action against an unpopular foe.
That will help him and the Democrats around election time.
Our national de-industrialization folly, is rapidly reaching the point we have two choices.
A knock-down, no apologies and no quarter, America-first trade war to stop the collapse.
Or, the post above yours.
Pick a lane.
Boy, if an aircraft carrier offends him, I'm betting that General really doesn't like those Ohio-class subs that could sail up and flatten him and half his country before he even knew there were there.
I'm just sayin', y'know?
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