Rumsfeld to China
This week Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is traveling to China for a diplomatic visit. It is the hopes of Washington that the visit will encourage the Chinese military to become more "transparent and reciprocal."
Obviously that is not going to happen, and we should keep planning on having to engage in conflict with the PLA, at least over Taiwan. While a military clash with China should be avoided at all cost, mostly because we will have a hard time winning, it looks like it is inevitable.
Mostly because China is continuing with a massive and extraordinarily rapid buildup of its armed forces. We should remember that no country in history of the world has built a massive military on the scale of Chinas and never used it. They are building it with express belief that sometime soon, probably sooner then most believe, they will use it to establish their claim as a world superpower.
Obviously that is not going to happen, and we should keep planning on having to engage in conflict with the PLA, at least over Taiwan. While a military clash with China should be avoided at all cost, mostly because we will have a hard time winning, it looks like it is inevitable.
Mostly because China is continuing with a massive and extraordinarily rapid buildup of its armed forces. We should remember that no country in history of the world has built a massive military on the scale of Chinas and never used it. They are building it with express belief that sometime soon, probably sooner then most believe, they will use it to establish their claim as a world superpower.
posted by Aleksandr at 8:09 PM
1 Comments:
The most amazing thing to me is that China's build up has happened because of our imports from them.
They have ships filled with cargo containers stacked 5 high that come here everday! No wonder they can build up their military so big and fast.
I fear we're handing them the means to defeat us.
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