Posted on 12/29/2010 9:10:15 PM PST by bruinbirdman
China is preparing for conflict 'in every direction', the defence minister said on Wednesday in remarks that threaten to overshadow a visit to Beijing by his US counterpart next month.
"In the coming five years, our military will push forward preparations for military conflict in every strategic direction," said Liang Guanglie in an interview published by several state-backed newspapers in China. "We may be living in peaceful times, but we can never forget war, never send the horses south or put the bayonets and guns away," Mr Liang added.
China repeatedly says it is planning a "peaceful rise" but the recent pace and scale of its military modernisation has alarmed many of its neighbours in the Asia-Pacific, including Japan which described China's military build-up as a "global concern" this month.
Mr Liang's remarks come at a time of increasingly difficult relations between the Chinese and US armed forces which a three-day visit by his counterpart Robert Gates is intended to address. A year ago China froze substantive military relations in protest at US arms sales to Taiwan and relations deteriorated further this summer when China objected to US plans to deploy one of its nuclear supercarriers, the USS George Washington, into the Yellow Sea off the Korean peninsula.
China also announced this month that it was preparing to launch its own aircraft carrier next year in a signal that China is determined to punch its weight as a rising superpower. The news came a year earlier than many US defence analysts had predicted.
China is also working on a "carrier-killing" ballistic missile that could sink US carriers from afar, fundamentally reordering the balance of power in a region that has been dominated by the US since the end of the Second World War.
US Navy commander, Admiral
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I am more concerned about them holding paper on our debt then their tanks. Their military will most likely be better at fighting internal enemies then external. The Chinese citizens are more likely to ever die at the hands of the Chinese military, then we are.
Please stop posting the China bashing pieces. Don’t you know that China is our friend.
I’m going to have to send the “free trade police” to pay you a visit for a little “talk”.
And when the Chinese decide to re-unite with their Taiwanese brothers, just stay out of their way. We can’t have any unpleasantness interfering with the “free trade” we currently benefit from.
Get it right next time!
The rulers there are using all that plastic crap to get US resources with which they mean to become a proper empire. After that people’s prosperity will be irrelevant. They don’t need it any more. They can go back to being China as China has been for millennia.
ping
It doesn’t really teach economics per se. It teaches how to think economically. It is great to make your kids read it. I made my 4 each read it twice, once in seventh grade and once in high school. However rebellious they got and whatever utopian schemes they are exposed to they can hear no scheme for improvement of the society without thinking “and then...” They are immune to Leftism. I wasn’t and had to go through a painful recovery period. I keep a stack of HH books to give away to promising youths. Hazlitt’s book is sort of economic prophylaxis.
There are many who are making light of this but this is just an excuse to build up their military and lining us all up in their sights. They see the US, under the usurper, as weak and now is the best time in recent US history to try something.
OK. Here is the ChiCom's big secret, constructed inland of Shanghai. Find it at
latitude 31° 6'19.89"N
longitude 121° 0'49.50"E
共產黨的飛機船舶
yitbos
See #27
yitbos
They will attack the USA if they think they can win. And I think they can win. They attack Taiwan, we send in a fleet, they sink it with drones, subs or rockets—and threaten to take out all west coast cities if we go nuke. We could lose (with an Obama in the White House) and have to pull out of Asia—maybe even give China American Samoa, Guam, etc... Maybe even give Hawaii up (let her go back to being a Neutral Kingdom —and a Chinese protectorate). With us gone, they could take out India—then force Japan to go Communist and play second fiddle to China. It could happen.
What readers don’t see...
Dongfeng 21 - 500 kT nuclear warhead, up to 2,500 km range.
That’s why so much fuel has been spewed in the skies over the past few weeks. Also, for several years, China has had mobiles that can launch on any point in the USA.
Our universities have educated PLA students for several decades, and on trade, well, you know enough of the rest.
There’s a sub-launched variant of that, too, BTW.
Yep, Klinton opened the nuclear labs (miniaturization, neutron bomb) to them and let Loral give them the tech for MIRVs
yitbos
ping to read later. thanks for the book recommendation.
China is still apparently being run by the ghosts of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
China won't start a war. And I firmly believe that.
I suppose you better start today when the group of countries you mentioned would still have the upper hand. Because in about 20 years of further Chinese military development the sides would be about equal ;) In 30 years, you may need to add the European Union into the group you mentioned to be a fair fight ;)
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what good do you think the EU will be in 30 years?
What ChiCom trolls believe is of no consequence to me or to reality. ;-)
Yes, in a way, you are right. The EU continues to cut military expenditures. Its part of the price to maintain a high standard of living, while still having generous entitlement programs into retirement. The EU will still have a high tech first world military by then, but smaller in overall size.
Well, I've been here on the FR for over 10 years. And so far, I have been right, China has not started conflict with anyone. China fully understands, that her strength lies in peace time economics.
Lets look at Russia and China in an all out war. Russia, overall, still has the upper hand, when taking in account Russia's nuclear arsenal. That won't last forever of course, but in the mean time, in this regard, Russia has the upper hand.
But in a world of peace time economics, the Russians feel steam rolled by the Chinese. China is 10 times larger than Russia, so of course, they are going to feel steam rolled. And why would China enter into a realm, i.e., "war", where she would not have the upper hand.
And once China gets the upper hand, in both military and a continued economic growth, why would she then throw it all away by risking war with others. Isn't it smarter to let other countries go to war while China uses her huge population to participate in global economics?
So, you may not respect my point of view, but in the end, you will see that I am right ;)
In the 1990's and into the 2000's, there were strong nationalistic feelings in China. However, those nationalistic feelings are actually begining to subside as China sees herself as a more powerful country. Nationalism, stems from a feeling of inferiority. As China rises, and gains greater and greater influence in the world, she will feel less and less inferior and feel less likely to resort to nationalism.
Why do you think nationalism is so strong throughout the Muslim world? And there is such a strong feeling against the West? Right or wrong, the Muslim world feels helpless against the West and lashes out. China, on the other hand, as the decades pass, will feel stronger. And more and more, will not see herself as helpless against the back drop of the West.
So, in reality, for China, it will be business as usual. There might even be an uptick in nationalism, within the West towards China as she rises ;)
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