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The China threat: Another warning signal
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | November 23, 2007 | Colin McNickle

Posted on 11/23/2007 6:37:43 AM PST by PghTribuneReview

The China threat: Another warning signal

Friday, November 23, 2007

How many more dire warnings must there be for the United States to realize communist China is a grave national security threat?

The bipartisan U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has issued its fifth disturbing report about national defense since 2001. China now is the biggest threat to American technology secrets.

Advances by the Chinese military are surprising U.S. intelligence officials. The Defense Department could be outsourcing the manufacturing of weapons and military equipment to Chinese factories.

In an astonishing admission, the Pentagon confessed it did not even have the ability to track where components of military equipment are made.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2008; bush; china; cia; clinton; dod; duncan; duncanhunter; elections; hillaryclinton; homelandsecurity; military; pennsylvania; pentegon; pittsburgh; werescrewed; wot
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1 posted on 11/23/2007 6:37:44 AM PST by PghTribuneReview
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The Defense Department could be outsourcing the manufacturing of weapons and military equipment to Chinese factories.

How long before military hardware really starts to fail because of it?

2 posted on 11/23/2007 6:43:31 AM PST by b4its2late (GITMO is way too nice of a place to house low life terrorists.)
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To: PghTribuneReview

This February starts the Chinese year of the rat. Rats, DemonRATS, CommieRATs—what’s the difference?


3 posted on 11/23/2007 6:47:55 AM PST by jonrick46
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To: Jeff Head

ChiPing.


4 posted on 11/23/2007 6:49:05 AM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: PghTribuneReview
Thanks for posting (and welcome to FR). I haven't walked out to the end of the drive to pick up my paper yet this morning.

Great ending:
That America is so unprepared is surreal. It must get real about self-preservation before it's too late:
This February starts the Chinese year of the rat.


I have come to the conclusion that Democrat-Socialists do not have a self-preservation bone in their bodies; I wouldn't really give a crap except my neck is on the line too. Thank you Bill, Hillary and ChiComs. The sheople sleep.
5 posted on 11/23/2007 6:53:27 AM PST by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: PghTribuneReview

Thanks to the corruptive nature of the Clintons, who sold China Top Secret military technology in return for campaign contribution, China leaped 20 years ahead of where it should have been. So, now, it poses a definite and dangerous threat to American interests and security. The contempt and disdain I have for the Clintons is very deep.


6 posted on 11/23/2007 7:01:55 AM PST by ought-six ("Give me liberty, or give me death!")
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To: PghTribuneReview

See my tagline.


7 posted on 11/23/2007 7:10:19 AM PST by Greg F (Duncan Hunter is a good man.)
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To: PghTribuneReview
Ominously, China is cheating on trade and using billions of American trade dollars to build ships, planes and missiles at an alarming rate
8 posted on 11/23/2007 7:10:44 AM PST by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: PghTribuneReview

I’m not surprised. I looked at the technical student roster of Northeastern University in Boston, and all the names were foreign. They don’t have to steal anything, just pay to go to the top universities and they’ll teach you everything for the right price, and the kids know their families lives depend on them.


9 posted on 11/23/2007 7:15:11 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Worthy is the Lamb)
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My school is filled with Chinese kids who are extemely intelligent. They’re all very nice and friendly, too. But, they’ll go back home and help their country topple us. Even though most of them have no ill will toward us, their regime does. And seriously, one can’t blame them for supporting their country.

China has a huge, intelligent population. They’re slowly drifting away from socialism and toward capitalism. Their government is repressive, but that doesn’t lessen their threat to the outside world, anymore than the repression of Nazi Germany did. China isn’t importing a burdensome population of disruptive and entitlement-hungry third worlders. Their government is supporting their national interests, while Western nations are falling all over themselves to be “multicultural” and egalitarian. We’ve grown so soft and so un-nationalistic that we’ll gladly farm out our industries to foreign countries that will perform the tasks for a few dollars less, even if the country in question is a potential economic or military rival.

It’s insanity on our part, but that’s what liberals and “country club” Republicans have done to us.

I love and respect China’s historical culture and the Chinese people, but we’re committing suicide here in the West, and it’s the Chinese more than anyone else on earth who will take our place after our nations become outsourced third world mediocrities.


10 posted on 11/23/2007 7:29:40 AM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: do the dhue

“Another way we’re screwed” ping.


11 posted on 11/23/2007 8:56:40 AM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Check out ---->> www.eaglebrookchurch.com <<----)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001
I hear you brother.

I believe the demoratic leadership is a threat to our National Security.

12 posted on 11/23/2007 10:23:29 AM PST by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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To: PghTribuneReview

Even if it is, and that is not particularly clear, so what? What is anybody going to do about it?


13 posted on 11/23/2007 10:26:19 AM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: RightWhale
Yea, what are WE going to do about it?

What amount or what level will (ever) be the wake-up call? Who will sound the alarm?

Then what? It WILL then be too late.

Heck, while we're at it, let's just Auction off the Country - who wants it? Chinese? Musulm's?

Geez.

14 posted on 11/23/2007 10:37:30 AM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Check out ---->> www.eaglebrookchurch.com <<----)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

This is one of the many annoying things about the Presidential campaigns and debates. They are all missing the most vital questions. For example, China graduates as many engineers in a month as the USA does in a year. Part is due to to greater size of the population but the ratio is still out of whack. This is ominous.


15 posted on 11/23/2007 11:26:46 AM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: PghTribuneReview

“How many more dire warnings must there be for the United States to realize communist China is a grave national security threat? “

The Chinese bought our government a long time ago.

They all think that they can bring China into their stupid new world order, but China plans a new world order of its own, with China at the top and what remains of America an agricultural colony of theirs.


16 posted on 11/23/2007 12:45:10 PM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (I am a proud anti-invasion racist!)
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To: PghTribuneReview
There will be a very clear winner in the long war in the Middle East:

China.

I think every day we spend there the ChiComs are delirious with joy, licking their chops. Later on they won't cut us the tiniest break and we'll need every non-PRC asian friend in the world.

Juuuust wait --they will, that's for sure.

17 posted on 11/23/2007 1:33:30 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin; All
Pardon me for not knowing, but doesn't China control something monetary with the U.S. which they almost could've derailed us several weeks ago...??

I saw it on CNBC once, but don't remember what it was (??).

18 posted on 11/23/2007 2:01:10 PM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Check out ---->> www.eaglebrookchurch.com <<----)
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

A trillion or so in U.S. Bonds? Dumping them on the market means catastrophic losses for other major Bond players.


19 posted on 11/23/2007 6:11:45 PM PST by Melinator
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To: Melinator
Yes, that was it!

Both that & other situations should be analyzed to assess our Risk & the Severity............

20 posted on 11/23/2007 6:36:43 PM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Check out ---->> www.eaglebrookchurch.com <<----)
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