China Reportedly Building 3 Aircraft Carriers (Rumor yet to be confirmed)

http://www.strategypage.com/fyeo/howtomakewar/default.asp?target=htnavai.htm&base=htnavai&Prev=0&BeginCnt=31 ^

[philetus]

"If China is building aircraft carriers, maybe we should be asking ourselves "why"


"Why" is easy. When they are ready they will use them.

[Poohbah]

Japan is a dying power -- as is Russia. They are strong now, but as per statistics by 2050 their populations will have halved. What then? China is willing to wait.

By that time, the social pathologies of Communism and one-child-per-family will kick off the world's first nuclear civil war.

[Cronos]

By that time, the social pathologies of Communism and one-child-per-family will kick off the world's first nuclear civil war.
Nope, China will invade Russia and take those blonde Ninotchkas!

[Cronos]

OR, they'll send their excess males to Massachussetts...

[Poohbah]

Nope, China will invade Russia and take those blonde Ninotchkas!

Actually, they won't.

China also has this weird "racial purity" notion in play. Marrying a round-eyed barbarian and having offspring by her is socially verboten.

[BroncosFan]

Gojira-san . . . you wanna question it?

[GOP_1900AD]

Certainly the Shanghai industrial complex can build any ship that there is funding for. An increasing percentage of the worlds tonnage comes from the shipyards there. It is essentially the Old Glasgow of the 21st century. As a side note, most container cranes for superports are also made there as are the hulls to transport them around the world. If a reference design is being provided by Moscow on a license, then it would only speed things up.

[GOP_1900AD]

They need to go like h$#* to prepare for what is coming. If they are depending on us, they are making a very big mistake.

[taiwansemi]

What's Japan going to do? Bomb its own Toyota, Sony, Hitachi, Panasonic, etc. factories that are popping up all over China? Japanese fear China economically more than Americans, yet Japanese are re-locating factories to China faster than anybody else, because capitalism is capitalism and Japan's competitiveness and Japan's vitality as a nation will suffer if Japan's factories don't move to China. Once China's economy grows as big as America's in 2-3 decades and twice as big in 4-6 decades, anybody who attacks the world's biggest economy will end up hurting their own economy more than China's. More than half of America's and Japan's entire stock market values and retirement funds will derive from their companies' business activities in China, and attacking China will be the best way for them to shoot themselves and their own people in the foot.

[Cronos]

Once China's economy grows as big as America's in 2-3 decades and twice as big in 4-6 decades

Well, predictions greater than a decade mostly fail. China very well MAY do so, but it will have a political change. If the change goes through smoothly, China will reach the levels you talk of. If there is a violent revolution or civil war, watch those stats tumble. Also, China, as a typical communist state, must be massaging the figures and putting up a nice shiny facade to the foreigners -- it does not allow anyone to see the real grimy face of China and communism.