China Prepares for Armed Conflict "In Every Direction"
From The Telegraph
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.What does Beijing know that Washington doesn't?
"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...
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.
posted by Trevor Loudon at
12/30/2010 11:36:00 PM
1 Comments:
Why would anybody be surprised at this? If I was China, I would too, no different than the US.
If our politicians would get off their ass and quit worring about getting re-elected, maybe we would not send billions of dollars for oil and borrow money from China.
In order to stay competitive we must change how we do things. China is in a position to do to us what we did to the Soviet Union. we will not be able to have the resources to compete with their economy and military might.
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