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It's an old and well worn rule never to underestimate your opponent, in military matters in particular.China isn't a threat. It's an inevitability.
Masters of the region. And a military power to be reckoned with whether you wish to deal with it or not.
Reread Orphanslug’s post.
I think that China is quite a threat to Taiwan.
I do not think that it is a threat to any other place.
China needs to be put in its place.
I remember that after the Vietnam War, China invaded Vietnam.
And the Vietnamese chased the Chinese out.
Hopefully, the Chinese will suffer another such embarrassing defeat.
They have gotten too big for their britches.
I don't mean militarily inevitable. China will dominate by shear weight. Roughly 1/4 of the world's people are ethnically Chinese now. 30 years ago China accounted for about 2%of the world economy, today they're number two. And they're buying Africa- they have huge investments there, they're building infrastructure all over West Africa and they buy up huge tracts of land, operate them as collective farms and cut the politicians in on the profits.It's an old and well worn rule never to underestimate your opponent, in military matters in particular.
It is also concomitantly imprudent to make your military enemy ten feet tall with big dicks. The CCP-PRC has many internal contradictions, shortcomings and self limiting factors such as to name but one debt increasing faster than GDP growth during most of the past decade.
The number aged 60 and older will comprise 40% of the population by the end of this decade with a fertility rate of 1.3 per woman. One in five Chinese younger than age 35 is set against marriage and prefers a cat to a child given the expenses plus being responsible for their parents in their old age.
Several years ago CCP DictatorTyrants in Beijing had to recall a significant number of retired Naval senior CPO because they were building so many ships yet the old hands knew little or nothing about the new naval vessels and they still need to read the manuals onboard to try to figure things out -- these guys won't be around long enough either to make any difference because they haven't any significant difference to make.
It is CCP Party-Government policy not to pay even adequately for military personnel, training, pay, assistance, benefits, facilities and so on for either active duty or retired because the Boyz in Beijing can't anywhere near afford the armed forces budget the USA has. The USA is hard pressed to sustain its military budgets yet we make the sacrifice the Boyz in Beijing cannot. It's fact anyway the CCP Party-Government has a much greater budget for internal control and domestic "security" than for its armed forces that are owned and controlled by the Party.
In economics and finance, resources of many kind, the USA is competing against the CCP DictatorTyrants in Beijing in Africa and globally.I don't mean militarily inevitable. China will dominate by shear weight. Roughly 1/4 of the world's people are ethnically Chinese now. 30 years ago China accounted for about 2%of the world economy, today they're number two. And they're buying Africa- they have huge investments there, they're building infrastructure all over West Africa and they buy up huge tracts of land, operate them as collective farms and cut the politicians in on the profits.
What China Is Really Up To In Africa
As Africa urbanizes rapidly the presence of Chinese construction teams have become virtually ubiquitous. Is China sharing their expertise and helping lift Africa out of poverty or laying a debt-trap that many countries will struggle to break free of?www.forbes.com
"It is not lost on many African leaders that hardly 30 years ago China was in a similar place that they are now — a backwater country whose economy made up hardly two percent of global GDP. But over the past few decades China shocked the world in the way that it used infrastructure to propel economic growth, creating a high-speed rail network that now tops 29,000 kilometers, paving over 100,000 kilometers of new expressways, constructing over 100 new airports, and building no less than 3,500 new urban areas — which include 500 economic development zones and 1,000 city-level developments. Over this period of time, China’s GDP has grown more than 10-fold, ranking #2 in the world today."
Oil, cotton, manganese, rare earth minerals, China gets much out of Africa already and is expanding. And most of it is private, for-profit enterprise, though it usually overlaps the government agenda.
Hegemony doesn't necessarily come out the barrel of a gun anymore.
China hasn't been crippled by tariffs. Quite the contrary, It's economy has set growth records since it slumped two years ago.In economics and finance, resources of many kind, the USA is competing against the CCP DictatorTyrants in Beijing in Africa and globally.
Biden has left in place Trump's crippling trade tariffs, sanctions and so on to include stopping Beijing's passion to use its stolen technology to become 5G tech dominant by 2025. Huawei, ZTE and the others remain deprived of chips and other indispensable parts for their products. U.S., Japan, Taiwan and others are developing 5G as the alternative and in Europe only Germany continues to be a holdout with the CCP DictatorTyrants in Beijing.
Plus I've posted internal Chinese weaknesses, burdens, serious problems of demographics, finance, economy, currency to many threads over many years to include some posts to this one so that the surrender monkeys can see with their own eyes how the CCP works so hard to convince you of their smooth, orderly, organized, harmonious, unstoppable and inevitable society, economy and civilization. I've posted here how the Silk Road / Belt & Road is a bust yet all that you guys see are the horrors of inevitable dominance you want to see in the Chinese and China.
The bottom line is that each and every dynasty has failed and this young and nervous CCP dynasty in their business suits and Florsheims will fail too. CCP and the Chinese people know this is their long and proven cycle of history, ie, rinse and repeat and self defeat. The Chinese always give more power to the ruler who's mucking up the works to begin with then proceeds to bring the whole edifice crashing down.
There was no genocide against African Americans, no matter how many times you repeat the question. Mexican-Americans faced discrimination, yes, but they didn’t face “genocide” either. And, quite frankly, most of the land the United States had taken had already been stolen from its rightful inhabitants in the first place years— even centuries— earlier. Which raises the question, of course, of how much of this is people complaining about the US “kidnapping what they’d rightfully stolen”, to quote the Princess Bride.
Even if we ONLY look at the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang, the Chinese government’s abuses still dwarf those of the US.
No, slavery was not genocide. There was no effort to wipe out African American culture and no effort to systematically destroy the African American community. I get that you are desperate, but you should really learn what qualifies as genocide before you start throwing the term around.
You aren’t interested in “preventing human rights abuses globally”; you can’t even face the fact that there’s a genocide ongoing in Xinjiang. What you ARE interested in is engaging in whataboutism to provide support for the People’s Republic of China.
Yes, there is no strong historical evidence to support the idea of any sort of deliberate spread. As I said before. Engaging in hypotheticals does not change the fact you can’t declare the deaths from smallpox to be “genocide”
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
You ain't seen incompetent military leadership until your look at the Communist Party generals in China, to include of course the admirals. Officers don't need to join the party until they're up for colonel or O-6 equivalent there to the U.S. rank in grade. Then to get stars they need to pay an arm and a leg and toe the party line because PLA belongs to the Party and the oath is to the Party only.I fear our military's (poor leadership) incompetence more than China's buildup.
China hasn't been crippled by tariffs. Quite the contrary, It's economy has set growth records since it slumped two years ago.
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All dynasty fail, yes, but it might be awhile before this one does.
China’s Economy: 40 Years of Soaring Exports
China's economy today is completely different than 40 years ago; in 2021 the country makes up the highest share of exports globally.www.visualcapitalist.com
"In 2021, China’s trade recovery from the crisis has bested most other countries—in Q1 2021, its exports grew by almost 50% compared to the previous year’s quarter, to around $710 billion."
China accounts for over 14% of the exports in the world, the USA is #2 at just over 8%.
Your shtick is old. You're not a serious commenter.It sounds like you are flailing about yet again because you are outraged anyone would hold the CPC accountable for the genocide they are committing.
You being horrified that the US won’t let brutal dictators gas their own people with impunity is as pathetic as ever.
But hey, way to confirm, once again, that you couldn’t care less about victims of the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang.
It sounds like you are flailing about yet again because you are outraged anyone would hold the CPC accountable for the genocide they are committing.
You being horrified that the US won’t let brutal dictators gas their own people with impunity is as pathetic as ever.
But hey, way to confirm, once again, that you couldn’t care less about victims of the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang.
"Nothing new here" applies to you and the people calling for the same military shit that hasn't worked, which is how we end up with extreme cases like the Holocaust. You're stuck in previous eras' mentalities. You'd rather risk destroying the habitability of the planet instead of trying to come up with solutions for the current era.Seems like people prefer to ignore growing military threats in favor of dithering over things like climate change.
This is likely because they feel that man controlled the climate in a bad way so they can now control it in a good way.
In both cases people give mankind too much credit for control.
This is likely why they feel they can control microorganisms like the COVID virus.
Sorry but nature still trumps human beings.
Military threats however can be dealt with if there is a political will and acceptance of the threat.
People ignored the military threat of the Nazis as well.
Nothing new here.
"China Fanboyz." Your commentary's worse than his.Once the China Fanboyz run through all the standard and approved doctrinal answers they have to call it quits.
They get dismissive.
And move away.
China Fanboyz. Right.China Fanboyz have the doctrinal answer to everything.
Instantly besides.
And with confidence and certainty.
"Man made" as the whole of it is and always is.
"China Fanboyz." Your commentary's worse than his.
China Fanboyz. Right.
Sure misread this one, didn't I.
Your shtick is old. You're not a serious commenter.
I doubt that anyone can tell what your political positions are. My guess is that the progressive label you've chosen for your 'political leaning' is incorrect.I don't think you and I are that far apart politically.
It's just that when someone says China you're but one who's quick to throw both hands up high in the air.
And I take it upon myself to point out all the fakery the Boyz in Beijing are and put out 24/7/365.
Genocide is not always mass killing.
United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect
Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protectwww.un.org
Americans almost certainly did one or more of these things to Africans. Specifically the first and last item.
You still don't understand the usage of 'alleged.'You can’t even bring yourself to face the fact that China’s committing genocide yet somehow expect anyone to take you seriously when you pretend to care about “human rights abuses”.
You still don't understand the usage of 'alleged.'
ONLY because they were valuable property that made people wealthy. Was their culture respected? Hell no. They were taken from their culture declared subhuman and turned into slaves by inhumane people. While the term 'genocide' does bring up thoughts of massive amounts of murder, that's not the only characteristic. Has the Chinese government committed massive amounts of murder on the Uhygur people? As far as we know, no. Are the Uhygur people being mistreated worse than the chattel slaves were? I don't think so.There was no systematic effort to wipe out African Americans, either by murdering them or by destroying their culture.
I doubt that anyone can tell what your political positions are. My guess is that the progressive label you've chosen for your 'political leaning' is incorrect.
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