Comments on: Modern Chinese Secret?

By: Ship For Free

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By: chris

chris — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:42:41 +0000

May China put the fear of God into the US. This squealing from a country that spends more on offense... I mean defense, than all the other great powers combined is hypocrisy at its highest.

Asia wants the US and its "security commitments" out of her backyard.

By: ECHS1967

ECHS1967 — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:37:48 +0000

Given the surge in China's economy, its eventual dominance of its neighborhood in virtually all respects can be taken for granted. Taiwan hasn't a prayer. The only realistic counterbalance to Chinese influence in Asia would not be the United States, but India, if India continutes its own economic surge and assumes the mantle of a great power. We shouldn't be worried so much about China's military spending as about what the spending is buying. A navy capable of global reach, a ramp-up of intercontinental ballistic firepower -- these would be causes of real concern.

By: Grumpy Old Man

Grumpy Old Man — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:11:17 +0000

Any military intensification by a large communist regime is a cause for some concern. However, with 6% of the world's population, in the face of a growing China, it would be foolhardy of us to not accept the fact that China is likely to be stronger, relatively, in a generation, than now.

This probability is likely to be more of a problem for Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India, and Russia than for us (especially Russia, that has a lightly developed and underpopulated frontier with densely populated and dynamic China).

It is an issue to be managed rather than a national crisis. If we recognize the long-term limitations on our power, we will not panic; we will adjust.

By: robert m. peters

robert m. peters — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 14:57:36 +0000

I doubt that the Chinese are going to build aircraft carriers. They know that in a superpower/superpower confrontation aircraft carriers would be swept from the oceans within about three days. They make good toys for admirals and are useful against third-rate powers as launch platforms when that third-rate power has no weapons system to challenge them. In a war to the death with a power that had such systems, the carriers and the thousands on them would be among the first to die. Only countries like the United States which rob their people by producing inflation through the printing of fiat/counterfeit currency and which can get another country to help fund its debt can build and maintain the little boys' dreams of grown men. Besides, President Bush needs aircraft carriers for his photo opportunities!