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CHINA
WATCH
Every
day there are several new stories about China's plans for
global domination.
Is
a war with China inevitable or are the Pentagon hawks looking
to increase a U.S. defense budget that is already obscenely
huge?($621 Billion in 2021)
Every
year the U.S. continues to outspend the entire rest of the
world on it's defense. Not even China can hope to overcome
the cold hard economics of defense spending. It is a black
hole, a money pit. The U.S. can afford to spend hundreds of
billions of dollars every year because it is a very wealthy
country and there's plenty of money to run the rest of the
government, but China is not a wealthy country.
Like
Russia, the Chinese cannot afford to keep up with the U.S.
and so they are looking for that great technological leap
ahead that will permanently shift the balance of power in
their favor, without the necessity of armed conflict. They
reason that faced with insurmountable odds and certain
defeat, the west will capitulate. The problem with this
strategy is that once the Chinese have this super-weapon,
they must reveal that they have it, and then they have to
demonstrate that it works, without inadvertently provoking a
global nuclear response where everyone is shooting at them.
2021 Defense Budgets
U.S. $621
Billion
China $62 Billion
France $55.6 Billion
(2016)
Russia $50 Billion
UK $42.8 Billion
Japan $41
Billion (2016)
Germany $40.9 Billion (2019)
Do
the Chinese have a long-term plan for global domination that
hinges on it's ability to coerce the rest of the world into
going along with the plan, or else? As in: Let China invade
Taiwan or else... Let China annex the South China Sea or
else...
If
so, has this strategy worked for Beijing? No, so far it
hasn't. What China's strategy is actually doing is causing
the west-leaning Asian-Pacific nations to start feeling the
need to let China know that it's aggressive behavior will not
be tolerated and if China wants war, China will have war.
Does China really want war?
No.
China does not want war, China wants stability and there are
indications that China is not as stable, economically, as it
needs to be.
What's
wrong in China?
Growth
is slowing. The cracks are showing. The government is
mismanaging the economy. There's too much corruption at all
levels. Power in China is too tightly concentrated at the
very top echelons of the government and military. The Chinese
justice system serves the will of the elites.
The
Chinese government is essentially a racist and bigoted
organization that will attempt to control every aspect of
Chinese life and eliminate or appropriate anything it sees as
a threat. Like Russia, the Chinese leadership might actually
have this dream of China becoming the one and only global
superpower and that the competing powers, namely the U.S.A.,
need to get out of China's way so that she can effortlessly
ascend to greatness, because that is her destiny. Etcetera.
Pressure
over China's human rights abuses mounts ahead of Beijing
Olympics - The Washington Post Christian Shepherd and
Lily Kuo 11/26/21
Australia
says China's 'alarming' actions at odds with peaceful
rhetoric Reuters – 11/25/21
The
U.S. Should not have any illusions about Taiwan says China
- - - Reuters 11/25/21
Philippines
rejects China's demand to remove grounded navy ship
Reuters – 11/24/21
Pentagon
officials ‘remain baffled by Chinese hypersonic missile
technology’ after Beijing tested weapon that could
deploy a nuke while travelling at five times the speed of
sound Daily Mail - Stewart Carr 11/21/21
How
the U.S. Lost Ground to China in the Quest for Clean Energy
NY Times - Eric Lipton & Dionne Searcey 11/21/21
U.S.
warns China after South China Sea standoff with Philippines
Reuters - Akriti Sharma, Susan Heavey, Philippa Fletcher
11/19/21
Biden
'considering' a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter
Olympics hosted by China USA Today - Deirdre Shesgreen
and Tom Schad 11/18/21
China
is ready for a full-scale invasion of Taiwan and has added
missiles and amphibious boats to strengthen assault:
Congress' dire warning after US said they'd step in if
Beijing attacked island Daily Mail – Morgan
Phillips 11/18/21
Instead
of standing up to Russia and China, Biden appeases them
Yahoo – Peter Morici 11/17/21
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