Related: The China Syndrome
Obama's Two Faces Towards China (Part I)
Obama's Two Faces Towards China (Part II)
The Chinese Telegraph
"Pentagon cites Chinese military prowess" by Thom Shanker, New York Times News Service | March 26, 2009
Yup, the TOP WAR MONGER of AmeriKa's MSM!!!!
WASHINGTON - China is seeking technology and weapons to disrupt the traditional advantages of US forces, and secrecy surrounding its military creates the potential for miscalculation on both sides, according to a Pentagon study released yesterday.
The HYPOCRITICAL CHUTZPAH is something else, 'eh, readers?
Related: PNAC
Clean Break
Yeah, we ain't secret about our world domination plans.
How come that stuff never appears in my jewspaper, huh?
The report from the Defense Department to Congress, "Military Power of the People's Republic of China 2009," catalogs efforts by China to supply its armed forces with weapons that can be used to intimidate and attack Taiwan and blunt the superiority of US naval and air power, at least near its territory.
Isn't that there sovereign right?
"We have advocated time and again for more dialogue and transparency in our dealings with the Chinese government and military, all in an effort to reduce suspicions on both sides," said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary. He said the report should be read as calling "for deeper, broader, more high-level contacts with the Chinese."
Military-to-military relations between the United States and China have tended to crest and fall in recent years, with ties having just recovered from Beijing's outrage over a decision by Washington to sell Taiwan $6 billion worth of advanced weapons. But even that resumption of talks was threatened this month after Chinese vessels shadowed and harassed a US surveillance ship in international waters of the South China Sea....
Again, the ARROGANT ACCEPTANCE that WE have the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT to DOMINATE the WORLD is UNQUESTIONED by the Jew York Times -- after USrael spends MORE on MILITARY than the REST of the WORLD COMBINED!!!!!
Also see: The AmeriKan Empire: It's All Good!
Of course, there is NO NEED for a WAR, and the GLOBALISTS KNOW IT!!!!
"China's grand bargain" by Robert I. Rotberg | March 26, 2009
Robert I. Rotberg is director of the Program on Instrastate Conflict at Harvard's Kennedy School and President of the World Peace Foundation. He recently published "China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence."
AS THE G20 group of nations prepares to meet next week to discuss the world economy, a grand bargain with geostrategic significance is implicitly being crafted between Washington and Beijing. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hinted as much when she said in February that the United States would not hammer China about its human rights violations.
China and the United States need each other. China wants the United States to keep its trillions of dollars in Treasury securities safe and valuable. It would like Washington to stop beating the hollow drum of foreign-exchange policy and yuan deflation. China also wants the United States to help reinflate the global economy so that it can grow back from 6 percent per annum GDP to 8 percent or more. Otherwise unrest may escalate.
China also does not want the United States to press human rights issues for fear of further encouraging dissent. That posture obviously goes for Tibet, for the Uighur claims on Xinjiang, for labor violations in the Guangdong area, and, possibly, for attacks on China's abysmal food security record.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress are rightly appalled at any backtracking. Criticism of China's record at home and abroad is well-merited.But, as Secretary Clinton and President Obama know, Washington needs China's help on global climate change and on such key security issues as North Korea, Burma, Iran, Sudan, and Zimbabwe.
Yeah, it is ALWAYS about SOME AGENDA, never ACTUAL PEACE with us.
Restraining the nuclear ambitions and capacity for mischief of the odious regime in Pyongyang is unlikely without China's support for a negotiated dismantling of fissile enrichment and missile launching facilities. Only China has the necessary leverage and influence with Kim Jong-il and his regime.
On Burma, Clinton has admitted that US and European sanctions have accomplished little, and that the ruling military junta pays little attention to what the UN, the Association of Southeastern Nations, or the West wants by way of ameliorations and respect for internal human and political rights. It only responds to Beijing, its funder, main supplier of arms, commercial and strategic partner, and a key economic mainstay.
On Iran, the Obama administration will also need China (and Russia) in finding diplomatic or economic means to deter Iran's rush toward nuclear capability. Absent such support, the task of constraining or preventing Iran from becoming a bomb maker is difficult, if not impossible. (China is Iran's largest trading partner.)
In Africa, China is a major investor. China imports more than 10 percent of its oil from Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, and Sudan, and obtains minerals such as copper from Zambia and Congo, platinum and chrome from Zimbabwe and South Africa, and much more. It also purchases large forests of African timber. None of that mercantile activity is objectionable to Africa or the United States, nor should Washington worry about Chinese infrastructural construction of ports, railways, and roads in Africa.
But China also supplies arms to Africa. It backs President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, gives him aircraft and armored cars, and takes land and minerals in exchange. Oppression in Sudan is heavily facilitated by China, which trains the pilots who bomb Darfuri refugee camps and provides the weapons with which the janjaweed and others kill innocent civilians. More so, China pumps Sudan's oil, guards the oil wells and pipeline, runs the refinery, and funds President Omar al-Bashir, recently indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. If the Obama administration is going to reduce the killing fields in Darfur and remove Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe, it will need China's help.
Nothing about the cholera crisis, huh?
As the global economy continues to fray, there is a crucial need for collective action on fiscal matters, monetary policy, antagonism against protectionism, and on help for the developing world. The United States and Europe cannot create or fulfill such an agenda without China's cooperation. Only with China can they craft policies to create increased domestic consumption everywhere (especially in China and other surplus-rich Asian economies) and thus avert the collapse of global prosperity.
As if that was their goal.
Any such grand bargain is messy, but necessary and compelling.
--more--"So NO MORE WAR TALK, 'eh, Globe?
