Comments on: China on the military move Update Taiwan’s president talks independence

By: Gooch

Gooch — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:00:19 +0000

Pay attention to what you buy when you are shopping, don’t just base your purchases on price alone. Sometimes the the cheaper product is just to expensive to buy.
stop supporting our enemies military.

By: Speakup

Speakup — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:45:45 +0000

Wouldn’t it be cool if we owned a large percentage of treasury securities from the other nations (and collected the interest) on the planet and if they had such trade imbalances in our favor that all of our military expenses foreign and domestic were basically, free?

By: MirCat

MirCat — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:10:59 +0000

Ther legacy of Truman lives on.

- The Cat

By: jaleach

jaleach — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:18:32 +0000

It’s us against the world. Are we up to it? I fear that we aren’t.

Exactly. We likely aren’t. Can Hillary and Obama adopt a convincing Chinese accent to garner support from that all important anti-American, pro-communist Chinese constituency?

By: jaleach

jaleach — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:14:57 +0000

Nope, no warnings. I tried that once and ended up with half a dozen people tossing that same slur around and all of them attacking me. That taught me that warning shots are for sissies.

I’ll remember that.

By: jaleach

jaleach — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:08:26 +0000

I tend to oscillate between worrying and not worrying about China. They’ve got a huge army that’s bound to start trouble at some point, but then they’ve also got demographic problems, problems with Muslims (who doesn’t), and a growing gulf between a capitalistic economy and a communist government. That last point could really take China out of the global game in a hurry. If the commies go down, they’ll likely take down the rest of the country as well in a civil war that’ll make our battle between North and South look like a game of checkers. Of course, such massive instability will kill us thanks to our dependence on cheap Chinese goods.

Ain’t global politics fun?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:05:38 +0000

Nope, no warnings. I tried that once and ended up with half a dozen people tossing that same slur around and all of them attacking me. That taught me that warning shots are for sissies.

By: jaleach

jaleach — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:04:00 +0000

Geez Bryan, at least give the guy a warning before banning him. Unless, that is, you’ve already done so.

By: Bad Penny

Bad Penny — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:43:07 +0000

It’s not all about Taiwan. If and when the Chinese banking system collapses they are going to have a hell of an internal security situation on their hands. Some estimates put the level of non-performing loans at close to 50%. Somethings gotta give.

By: Lancer

Lancer — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:29:16 +0000

On the outside. Between 50 and 100 years.

By: Lancer

Lancer — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:28:25 +0000

The Pentagon and CIA have been predicting China to be our next major threat since the end of the Cold War-one reason we dropped the ball with the jihadis. China is not just building up their military, either. Their support for Iran accomplishes teh dual goals of securing oil contracts from Iran and helps the Iranians keep us bogged down in Iraq. And when Iran gets the Bomb (I no longer think it’s an “if”), Iran will be targeting Israel and the US with it, not China.

As the US-led West collapses into a Second Dark Age (helped along by the jihadis and the Left), China will emerge as the leading power in the world. Then the jihadis will direct their mindless rage at China. That will last until they set off a nuke on mainland China. Then China, unencumbered by concerns for terrorists’ rights or other such nonsense, will annhilate all the Muslim countries (including Eurarabia and whatever part of Palestine is no longer glowing in the dark by then). This will be followed by a genocidal campaign to hunt down and wipe out all Muslims they can find, regardless of whether they are militant or not.

I give it 100 years.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:04:37 +0000

What I don’t understand is that if; drinking, gambling, and smoking is so bad, how can they be doing so well?

If we applied our stats to just their smoking, there would be only 37 people alive in China.

By: Kid from Brooklyn

Kid from Brooklyn — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:11:30 +0000

Well, they could always play Karachi Hold’ Em, No Limit.

By: JasonG

JasonG — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:00:51 +0000

Yeah, but I would assume a swordfight involves touching, which is gross.

By: Kid from Brooklyn

Kid from Brooklyn — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:58:38 +0000

JasonG on March 5, 2007 at 11:54 AM

No fix needed, they both meant the same thing. I was going for more Hitch, less Coulter. :P

By: Kid from Brooklyn

Kid from Brooklyn — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:57:14 +0000

We need to also increase building and spending on our DDX program.

That would be a start…

Tim Burton on March 5, 2007 at 10:52 AM

Hell, I’d settle for SLEPping some of our old carrier and battleship fleet.

By: JasonG

JasonG — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:54:18 +0000

That, or the Mother Of All Sausage Fests.

Fixed

By: pistolero

pistolero — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:52:27 +0000

While Bryan was enduring Ann Coulter, I was in another conference room at CPAC listening to Jed Babbin discuss the increasing threat China poses. Babbin said that a certain province in China does 100 cyber attacks against our military computers EVERY DAY. Couple that with their recent ability to shoot down satellites and the picture gets increasingly alarming. Our modern military would be blind if China took out our comms.

Babbin also claims that China underreports their military spending so as to grow it without causing suspicion.

It’s us against the world. Are we up to it? I fear that we aren’t.

By: Stormy70

Stormy70 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:49:22 +0000

But how is China’s navy? Can they make it out past India and Japan’s navy, which are our close military allies, thanks to President Bush? Bush has sewn up Japan and India while the MSM slept.
China is also dealing with internal unrest and a major religious revival. I doubt they will be able to project much power when one looks beneath the surface.

By: Kid from Brooklyn

Kid from Brooklyn — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:49:07 +0000

Other note, do y’all realize that China has 15 million more men then women? Army recruits anyone?

That, or the Mother Of All Swordfights.

By: Defector01

Defector01 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:43:47 +0000

I’d wonder how long til that much military money crashes the Chinese economy but unfortunately since we BUY EVERYTHING from China that’s not going to work.

Other note, do y’all realize that China has 15 million more men then women? Army recruits anyone?

By: Watcher

Watcher — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:34:26 +0000

What will be interesting to see is what Europe will do. Will they stand by our side or will they see China as the new savior to block Russian aggression?

Old Europe will probably try to have China head up the UN Commission on Hegemony.

By: natesnake

natesnake — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:26:50 +0000

…and what right2bright said.

By: natesnake

natesnake — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:25:14 +0000

Does $44.94 billion number factor the cost differential between what a U.S. dollar buys and a Chinese dollar buys? If not, then the $44 billion could easily equate to $176 billion.

Not that it matters. I’m still convinced that China is reluctant to harm their economic success with large scale military action.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:24:03 +0000

China makes money, instead of just giving money away they put them to work. I would bet they are increasing their infra-struture at just a great of pace.
The military is a very effective way of putting people to work, creating pride, developing R & D. It takes hundreds of people to put the soldier in the field with modern equiptment and support.