Pentagon seeks to curb China's military might

[martingale]

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2...tent_516821.htm (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-02/02/content_516821.htm)

All imperialist powers, including the US, want a monopoly of the instruments of coersive violence. How else can the US bully other countries if they are capable of fighting back.

[RedStarOverChina]

Why is the guy at the back laughing hysterically? :huh:

[Karl Marx's Camel]

Ryan Henry, principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, said Washington wanted to make sure the Chinese "have the forces necessary to provide for their genuine security needs and not to go beyond that," according to a Reuter report.

He said the matter was addressed in the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), a blueprint for changes to U.S. strategy and forces due to be sent to Congress on Monday with U.S. President Bush's fiscal 2007 budget.

However, the Pentagon plan outlines that U.S. own military will be strengthened with a rising investment bill.

I love it. It's so funny.


So overwhelmingly arrogant...

[silentprotest]

According to a draft of the review made available by InsideDefense.com, a trade publication, the Pentagon is calling for a range of new weapons and capabilities "to help shape the choices of countries at strategic crossroads."
That is absolutely hilarious. They just want to bully countries to become more capitalist. The problem is the wording they have used will make people believe they are doing it for the 'greater good'.

[Tekun]

This is a direct result of capitalist competition
The unfortunate aspect of all this is that, the weapons and "defense" mechanisms they develop wont be used against one another, but they will be used against third world countries who threaten their interests

And people think China's communist :rolleyes:

[( R )evolution]

However, the Pentagon plan outlines that U.S. own military will be strengthened with a rising investment bill. In the Pacific, the U.S. Navy will add at least one aircraft carrier strike group and maintain 60 percent of its submarines, the Pentagon¡¯s draft plan said.


Hahaha, the US is so agorant. "China dont bulid up your military but we will bulid up are military in your region" All the US is a bully nation that uses its economic and miltary to put countrys into a horrible mess. Then the US takes advangte of that and uses that to put miltary bases in their country. FUCK THE US!

[loveme4whoiam]

This is a pretty dangerous step to take, isn't it? I mean, China already has the world's largest standing army and largest population, telling them "back off" might make them respond with "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough" (wow, I've just reduced complex international relations to a school-yard fight. Which it essentials is :P).

The US have needlessly put themselves in a corner here. If the Chinese don't back down, they will have to or else end up in some form of war with China. Of course, they won't back down. Is this good or bad? :/

[JC1]

This is a pretty dangerous step to take, isn't it? I mean, China already has the world's largest standing army and largest population, telling them "back off" might make them respond with "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough" (wow, I've just reduced complex international relations to a school-yard fight. Which it essentials is ).

The US have needlessly put themselves in a corner here. If the Chinese don't back down, they will have to or else end up in some form of war with China. Of course, they won't back down. Is this good or bad? :/

1) Chinese millitary strength is not that great. They have a large army, but it is poorply trained and equiped. It's mainly used for domestic represion, and even in china its over extended.

2) If the Chinese dont back down the US will simply pull investment from that country, and the chinese will starve.

[Janus]

The US always complains about other nations' defense budgets. But it fails to recognize that its own defense budget this year is about $440 billion and that doesn't even include the cost of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq while China's is about $30 billion. It 's similar to the British and their navy; the US feels threatened when it perceives that another country tries to offset its supremacy.

[red team]

Originally posted by [email protected] 4 2006, 01:23 AM

This is a pretty dangerous step to take, isn't it? I mean, China already has the world's largest standing army and largest population, telling them "back off" might make them respond with "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough" (wow, I've just reduced complex international relations to a school-yard fight. Which it essentials is ).

The US have needlessly put themselves in a corner here. If the Chinese don't back down, they will have to or else end up in some form of war with China. Of course, they won't back down. Is this good or bad? :/

1) Chinese millitary strength is not that great. They have a large army, but it is poorply trained and equiped. It's mainly used for domestic represion, and even in china its over extended.

2) If the Chinese dont back down the US will simply pull investment from that country, and the chinese will starve.
1) True enough, that's why Chinese military power won't extend much past their own land borders. China is not a sea or air power. For military power projection past your own borders you need to be both. But the chinese land forces are more than a match for any foreign invasion force and more so now because an elite corps of the army have modernized with up to date weaponry. Furthermore, any invasion of the Chinese mainland itself would necessarily escalate into a full blown nuclear exchange which is why I find that scenario extremely unlikely.

2) Very unlikely. The high profits of American multi-national corporations are heavily due to basing their production in cheap labour countries like China. If they move out of China their labour cost will rise and their profits disappear or drop significantly. Investors will take their money elsewhere and American corporations will fold up literally overnight. Investments in this age of computers and the internet can whiz around the world in seconds or minutes. Any company perceived as not being "competitive" will be immediately punished with loss of Capital.