Posted on 12/29/2010 9:10:15 PM PST by bruinbirdman
China is preparing for conflict 'in every direction', the defence minister said on Wednesday in remarks that threaten to overshadow a visit to Beijing by his US counterpart next month.
"In the coming five years, our military will push forward preparations for military conflict in every strategic direction," said Liang Guanglie in an interview published by several state-backed newspapers in China. "We may be living in peaceful times, but we can never forget war, never send the horses south or put the bayonets and guns away," Mr Liang added.
China repeatedly says it is planning a "peaceful rise" but the recent pace and scale of its military modernisation has alarmed many of its neighbours in the Asia-Pacific, including Japan which described China's military build-up as a "global concern" this month.
Mr Liang's remarks come at a time of increasingly difficult relations between the Chinese and US armed forces which a three-day visit by his counterpart Robert Gates is intended to address. A year ago China froze substantive military relations in protest at US arms sales to Taiwan and relations deteriorated further this summer when China objected to US plans to deploy one of its nuclear supercarriers, the USS George Washington, into the Yellow Sea off the Korean peninsula.
China also announced this month that it was preparing to launch its own aircraft carrier next year in a signal that China is determined to punch its weight as a rising superpower. The news came a year earlier than many US defence analysts had predicted.
China is also working on a "carrier-killing" ballistic missile that could sink US carriers from afar, fundamentally reordering the balance of power in a region that has been dominated by the US since the end of the Second World War.
US Navy commander, Admiral
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Psssssst, hey Vlad, you wanna know a secret?
Well, since they are planning it, maybe they should get it. Russia from the north, india form the south, japan/korea/taiwan from the east, uighurs and tibetans from within, and USA from afghanistan.
Their buildup and modernization continues. There’s nothing to stop them.
Sun Tzu said “exercise diplomacy to the maximum extent possible while preparing for war against adversary”.
USA is going to dig straight thru the earth to China and attack them from underneath.
Ordnance and equipment paid for in full with American dollars buying Chinese junk.
Not that we have much choice...
Cut off their oil supplies and where are they?
When you provoke war in every direction you ought to prepare for war from every direction. I am hard pressed to think of any country that has any serious intentions of initiating a war with China. Whatever trouble that comes to the ChiComs is of their own making.
Oh balderdash. The same global force alliances that stopped the NORKs and the Crazy Mullahs from building nuclear bombs will stop the Chinese.
There was this kind of war drum beating rhetoric coming out of a country in the 1930’s also.
China is preparing to be a Conqueror. Taiwan is to be the appetizer, then SEA. China will take on Japan and the US in time.
We need to do some serious practicing for this with the saracens and make some examples for the edification of the Chinese.
Cut off their oil supplies and where are they?
Where Japan was in 1940?
“China is preparing to be a Conqueror. Taiwan is to be the appetizer, then SEA. China will take on Japan and the US in time.”
China won’t attack America. Else who’d buy all that Chinese plastic crap?
Of course they are preparing...anyone who understands history always knows progressives create global war, they love it and they love people getting killed - after all it is their sick way of eliminating large chunks of the population.
When will mankind ever learn?
Good one!!
Drop a few nukes on them and get rid of the pestilence.
(Read Hazlitt’s “Economics In One Lesson.”)
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Just starting Chapter XVI.
Always good to refresh one’s knowledge of the Austrian School.
in every direction?
Good luck with that!
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