The article provides an eye-opening account of systematic free lancing by the Chinese military without the approval or knowledge of either the Foreign Ministry or the Central Committee. It's an open question whether the Party does control the gun rather than the other way around. If China is an army with a state, not a state with an army, it may eventually proceed down the road that Imperial Japan mapped out 80 years ago.
1 posted on
09/19/2013 2:11:02 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
To: Zhang Fei
If your armed forces are going about pointing guns at people, you should rein them in. Unless you’re looking to start a shooting match with unknown consequences.
TC
To: Zhang Fei
Does this mean there is a similarity in Red CHina to that of the Imperial Japanese before WWII where the civilians in government were not in control of the Japanese military?
3 posted on
09/19/2013 2:44:45 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statemeYup. My first thought as wt of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Zhang Fei
The Chinese military has LOTS of shiny new toys, and a new confidence in them.
They also know that the primary opposition, the U.S., is now led by a weak and spineless President.
The actions of Russia and China prove the rule that showing weakness to adversaries just invites the bullies to take you on, but to actually say that could be racist, right?
5 posted on
09/19/2013 4:56:24 PM PDT by
tcrlaf
(Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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