Didn't turn out well for them....
Posted on 01/01/2019 10:35:36 PM PST by cba123
There is a link to a video at the top of this story, saying that China now has two aircraft carriers, and two more under construction, right now.
This article also says that a Chinese admiral, has threatened two American aircraft carriers.
"Rear Admiral Lou Yuan has told an audience in Shenzhen that the ongoing disputes over the ownership of the East and South China Seas could be resolved by sinking two US super carriers."
America, we need to stop building up China.
We are rapidly building China into a very significant threat.
We really need to bring production, back to America again.
Now.
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
Not me.
I think this is a MASSIVE mistake. Of historic proportion.
We need to return businesses to America.
Now. Trump, you seemed to understand.
I hope you still do.
I've also experienced the worst side of Chinese culture - which is not entirely a consequence of Communism. It is a very competitive culture, and they find ways to screw you over - while deluding themselves that they are acting in accordance with the cultural ‘honor’ that they traditionally find important. They will take from you, and deceitfully do things that can destroy your professional and personal life, but then ‘take you to dinner’, on them, as though that small gesture somehow restores their honor and justifies their deceit. Obviously it doesn't, and people who act this way have no honor at all. Nonetheless, this is a reality of their culture and self-promotion.
My point is that you cannot trust China to act honorably in the world. You just can't. As for individual Chinese, like all of us, it's different from person to person.
Thanks.
Likewise I have some experience with Chinese. Lived there (both sides of the Taiwan Straits) some time ago.
Thanks for your comments.
By the way I just noticed I seemed to have not mentioned the article’s author:
He is Jamie Seidel.
Oh but we can’t can’t can’t tariff the little dears!
Didn't turn out well for them....
Send home all the Chinese studying in America.
Yes, pretty foolish talk from him.
Speaking of, I wonder how the Chinese liked the recent announcement by Japan that it was converting two of its helicopter carriers to fixed-wing flattops? I’ll bet the “ski-jump” modification parts are already fabricated, sitting in a JSDF warehouse - just lift aboard and weld.
In Chinese culture it’s ok to break any rule as long as you can get away with it.
Sounds muslim.
China has been given strategic advantage by US. Big big mistake.
I (completely) agree.
Completely. 100%
China is a weird place.
It is generally a safe nation to live in terms of violent crime but you have to count your change at the store or they’ll attempt to skim a dime because they don’t think Westerners can either count or care.
The pettiness of the tit-for tat culture and the constant desire to shave a corner can be infuriating.
When we had our apartment painted in Hong Kong the painter studiously thinned the paint down even though I bought the paint. I couldn’t make him see that the thinker paint would last 4 or 5 times as long and I wasn’t really saving money.
Like others posting here, I have experience living in, working in, and running a business in China. Can agree with most of the comments so far. My first thought about the article was, Generals and Admirals should not be out there running their mouths....causes nothing but trouble.
I too thought about Japan’s announcement, and then just today some headline about Britain maybe building a new base in the South China Sea. No doubt this is some very high level trolling by Trump, designed to keep Xi awake at night!
For all their backstabbing deceitful ways, let me add that the Chinese can be counted on to f*ck up just about everything they touch. Your friends own three different coffee shops in the same shopping center? Then maybe you should open one too. Your co workers got rich investing in real estate because the bubble will never burst? Then maybe you should too. Your favorite movie star got sent to a re-education camp before apologizing to the govt. for tax fraud? Maybe you should keep your social credit score high. They suffer from an astonishing level of “NPC” group-think, which ends up pervading everything they do.
A successful military, and by extension a military campaign, is only partly related to the equipment in the theater. Can the different parts function as a whole? How is the logistics train? How is the training? How is the combat-level experience? After seeing up close the Chinese factories, working up close with Chinese people, and experiencing first hand the group-think, this Expat is not worried in the least if our two militaries should ever clash.
Yes, these are old quotes that get recirculated every few weeks. There’s alwsys some old Chinese military fart who spouts off like this every now and then.
I think the biggest gift we can give would be to help solve China’s overpopulation problem.
We can start by nuking Peking (THATS RIGHT, PEKING) along with a few of their ports, and destroy their navy before it gets out to sea.
If China’s military functions at twice the level of their escalators and elevators, any war with them will still be over in less than a week.
The real question is whether we can let the survivors cannibalize their own dead, or just let the Vietnamese et al come in and mop up.
Clear provacation by cold war standards. Many americans have grown soft, in the brain.
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