Posted on 02/15/2012 4:54:14 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
As US Navy shrinks, China launches more, better war ships
HONG KONG — As looming budget cuts force the Pentagon to plan for a smaller US navy, China is accelerating the launch of new, increasingly capable warships as part of a sustained drive to become a major maritime power.
Shanghai's Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding Company late last month launched the fourth of China's new 071 amphibious landing ships according to reports carried by Chinese military web sites and the state-controlled media.
While most attention has been drawn to the ongoing sea trials of China's first aircraft carrier, military analysts say the expanding fleet of 20,000-ton landing ships, the biggest domestically designed and built vessels in the Chinese navy, delivers a far more immediate boost to Beijing's global influence.
"Having a significant fleet of large amphibious assault vessels clearly suggests a desire for power projection," says Christian Le Miere, a maritime security researcher at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
"If you want the surgical insertion of forces, for a range of reasons, then you need amphibious response ships."
Military rivalry China's naval buildup comes amid mounting maritime tensions in the Asia-Pacific region, which is likely to be one of the main geopolitical stress points in the coming decade.
Military planners previously had focused mainly on a potential conflict in the Taiwan strait. More recently, however, Japan and China have locked horns over islands each claims in the East China Sea; Vietnam, the Philippines and other nations are disputing territorial claims with China over parts of the South China Sea thought to be rich in oil and gas.
The US Navy has announced it will deploy its own new amphibious assault vessels, the Littoral Combat Ships, to the "maritime crossroads" of the Asia-Pacific theater, stationing them in
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Stop believing international socialist propagandists that want to destroy the U.S. border with free trade and illegals.During the 1800’s The U.S. used to have a very small limited government and high tariffs. This is how the U.S. became the world leader,and most technologically advanced society ever with the highest living standards. Read Pat Buchanan’s books or articles to see how free trade ruined America.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2774127/posts
For since the Revolution, America has had a standard of living that has been the envy of the world. From the Civil War through the 1920s, as we became the greatest manufacturing power the world had ever seen, our workers enjoyed pay and benefits that were unmatched anywhere.Detroit the future of America:Yet our exports in those decades were double our imports, and our trade surpluses annually added 4 percent to the gross national product. How did we do it?
We taxed the products of foreign factories and workers and used the revenue to finance the government. We imposed tariffs of up to 40 percent on foreign goods entering our market and used the tariff money to keep taxes low in the United States.
We made foreigners pay a price to get their products into our market and made them pay to help finance our government. We put our own country and people first.
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So it doesn't take balls, it takes brains to oppose free trade. Even little things, like admitting that we don't have free trade with China, or that raising tariffs hurts some U.S. manufacturers and helps others, or that doubling the price of gasoline will hurt everybody, or that the current federal budget deficit is $1.3 trillion, and that the Amazon Kindle and Wal-Mart have nothing to do with its size.
Whatever then.
I’ll wish you well (and some sort of unlikely pro-American epiphany) until next time.
Democrats and your free trade destroyed Detroit. And these will destroy what is left of the U.S.A..
Why don’t you answer how can the U.S.A defend itself, or even survive if we can’t produce any high tech products nor any product soon, but instead just live on debt borrowed from China to pay for more China crap?
U.S. has lost ability to manufacture high tech products proof:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amazon-cant-make-a-kindle-in-the-usa/
From there, it shouldn't be too difficult to understand why tariffs won't save the U.S., either, until our federal government is brought under control.
Bye, sweetie.
The problems are ratcheting up the minimum wage, handing out more and more freebeesfree freebies to welfare bums and turning our education system into a cesspool of drooling morons and liberal sycophants. That stuff is obliterating our high tech sector and all the tariffs in the world will not fix it.
Yes welfare needs to be eliminated but is welfare creating this monstrous growth in China or is it that China is rising at the expense of the U.S. :yes China stole our industries so they rise at 25% economic growth while we deline and explode our debt.
Today’s California IS our Greece...if Greece were being overrun by unassimilationist Turks...
The Japanese lost almost all their first team of experienced naval pilots in the first year of operations after Pearl Harbor, many of them at Midway. That was about 1,000 trained pilots and aircrew in a year.
They never recovered.
So how long would our F-22's last in sustained combat operations against a major opponent flying Sukhoi and Mikoyan-Gurevich iron, including the T-50 and J-20? Do the math.
Concept good. Graphic execution needs improvement.
But still, China Today is more like Greece than USA.
We need to keep in mind, America is a big place. Most of US soil have nothing built on it. Yet today, the US have more homes, infrastructure, etc. than in 1949. Keep in mind, the US provides a higher standard of living for its 310 million citizens today than the 160 million or so in 1949. The homes are bigger, more electricity are brought into each home today than in 1949. The shrinking of one city is not evidence of a nation in decline. What did San Jose or Seattle look like in 1949 compared to today? Or, what did the suburbs of Detroit look like in 1949 vs today? In both cases, those areas are much more built up today than in 1949. Sure, you could give me examples of many cities in America that are either dying or decaying. But I can also give you just as many cities that are vibrant and growing. From Atlanta, Georgia to Miami to Phoenix, AZ. Detroit is a big city, but all across America, are many small and medium sized towns that have a smaller population today than in 1949. The young people moved else where to the Seattle's, the Austin, Texas, the San Francisco's, the Atlanta's, the Miami's, etc.
The decay of Detroit is hardly an indication of America on the decline. Visit Seattle, Austin, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, etc. and the many suburbs surrounding Detroit and you'll see where everyone went.
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