Are any Chinese generals regular HotAir readers?

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on January 16, 2008 at 12:39 PM

For some reason I’d be surprised if Hot Air makes it through the Great Firewall.

Blacklake on January 16, 2008 at 12:46 PM

I am an American living in the PRC. HA makes it through the “Great Firewall.” Read it every day.

I think this incident is nothing more than two big dogs sniffing each other. They stand there, seemingly frozen for a time, then one figures out that the other one is dominant, and all is well.

Remember, “face” is important on both sides, but especially to the Chinese. They know they are weaker, but they want to show that they are there.

“A little rebellion now and then…is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”

Yeah, unless you’re Republicans. In that case, it’s give us that ol’ time business as usual, and please don’t rock our world with anything outside the mainstream.

We have no idea what rebellion looks like, at least so long as we keep looking to George, Mitt, Huck, John, Rudy, and Fred.

Regime change in China is actually a very plausible scenario, and in my opinion would work in not only china, but north korea and venezuela also!

pecker checkers

zeros

titless waves

ops puke

I do miss it.

-over-

Thanks the reserves are great! In fact I am mobilizing with a all volunteer reserve unit next month for deployment to the big sandy place. The call came out in the early fall for volunteers and if the unit couldn’t get enough personnel the NR would in-voluntarily activate the remainder to make up the ranks. Do you know how many people we had to in-vol activate? ZERO. We had almost 500 volunteers come forward and agree to be deployed to a war zone. This is expeditionary, in harms way, boots on the ground stuff, not aboard ships. I wanted to post this to that “Stop Loss” thread but couldn’t get to it. Kind of give perspective don’t it.

Big skimmers are big targets.

Naval aviation took over the nav a long time ago.

Not a balanced force.

Need smaller carriers.

-break-

turd chasers=hull techs (HT)

LCDR USNR here. Active 93-07 SWODAWG.

GREENTURTLE on January 16, 2008 at 1:58 PM

Hand salute!

Actually was considering going back into the reserves myself…

I salute your superior saltiness!

/’sparks’…heh he…nice

LCDR USNR here. Active 93-07 SWODAWG.

When/where u sail?

Actually retired as “sparks” (RMC/SW) in 84 after 22 years in the canoe club

you forgot
turd chasers

GREENTURTLE on January 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM

Sounds vaguely familiar…I think…whats that?

Ha! Doubt it…I can’t remember all of the names for the other ratings…there were some good ones for the different airdales but I can’t remember them!

When/where u sail?

More accurately:
Squid — Navy
Bubblehead — Submariner

Even more accurately:

Bubblehead – Submariner
Skimmer – Surface Sailor
Airedale – Aviation Sailor

cpodug on January 16, 2008 at 1:22 PM

I can add to that!

Bubblehead – Submariner
Skimmer – Surface Sailor
Airedale – Aviation Sailor
Nuke – Engineering sailor on nuclear powered ships/boats
Spook – Cryptology/codebreaking sailor
Deck Ape – Boatswains Mate, or any unskilled ship laborer
Knuckledragger – Machinist Mate
Twidget – Electronics Technician
Grape – Aviation gas tech
Penis Machinist (or Shortarm Mechanic) – Navy Medic

And as has been echoed above, this kind of thing does happen a lot more often than most people know. In one 6 month deployment we damn near rammed a Russian destroyer playing ring around the rosie off of Alaska and we got buzzed by an Iraqi MIG (that caused a big mess as we were having a huge BBQ on deck at the time) pre-GW1…also caught two different Russian subs shadowing us. All that in one 6 month cruise on Enterprise from 1989-90…and that’s just what we KNEW about.

And that’s not even going into the North Korean border/DMZ where bullets flying isn’t at all uncommon to this day. Just ask anyone who’s been stationed at one of those guard stations how scary THAT place actually is…

Ooooh, and a confrontation with a country that never has internal struggles about it’s inherent Islamophobia.
Too bad we play by rules . . .
-R
The Therapist on January 16, 2008 at 11:57 AM

China does NOT have inherent Islamophobia. Around 2% of its population is Muslim (Around 20 to 25 million people?) which although not a huge number, consists of not only Uyghurs and Turkmenis, but also Han Chinese…and has been established for centuries. From what I gather, the Chinese government is primarily concerned about jihadism linking up with Uyghur separatism. As far as interfering with Islamic worship just because they come down hard on other religions not fitting in with their communist ideology, I don’t think they interfere much, given what I’ve heard from Chinese friends. Given how closely China has drawn relations with Iran, Sudan, and other Muslim countries, I think they understand that if they prevent Muslim worship within their own borders to any significant degree, their international policy objectives get put into jeopardy.

Bubblehead – Submariner
Skimmer – Surface Sailor
Airedale – Aviation Sailor

cpodug on January 16, 2008 at 1:22 PM

froggy=SEAL

BTW
in my 15+ years never heard skimmer?more like black shoe or just shoe.