China's Gearing Up To Kick Our Ass

[Jack]

China could take over Japan anytime but it wont, not yet. China knows it needs the West's market to sell its goods and improve the economic lot of its people. But once prosperity has come, say in 50 years, then I think not only Japan but the US of A too will have to worry about it. China's airforce today is bigger than the US by 1,000 fighter aircraft. It has an army that vastly outnumbers the US. Where China still lags is in navy and marine forces.

Japan needs the US for protection which is why it is getting closer and closer to the US. It must prove that it is a loyal ally to get that protection and keep its influence high. Japan knows it is losing influence to China in Asia so it must become an invaluable US ally. The US would never turn its back on Japan because it is as afraid of China's military rise as anyone else.

[AssKissinger]

http://www.dailypress.com/news/nationworld/ats-ap_intl16apr15,0,1350050.story

Fearful that demonstrations could boomerang and scare off foreign investors, China has toned down the state media's reporting about Japan and muzzled Web sites such as Anti-Japan Vanguard. The result: No new protests.

A year ago, the "Anti-Japan Vanguard" Web site was plastered with fiery screeds demanding Tokyo atone for its World War II aggression. These days, it advertises industrial machinery, with only its inflammatory Web address, http://www.japanpig.com, to remind visitors of its former identity.

[emperor]

Ye Olde Propaganda?

The Villian is called 'Noodles Romanov' ... and is obviously of Soviet-Chinese extraction.

Roger takes proton-pills - like pep-pills taken by GIs during the vietnam and korean wars?
outro-song: "they all run from protons' mighty fury" as in Nuclear deterent?

and then there this...

[Greji]

- like pep-pills taken by GIs during the vietnam and korean wars?

Hey, they never turned me on with any good shit like that!

[AssKissinger]

[SIZE="4"]US said to sell Taiwan 66 fighter planes[/SIZE] Mon Jul 17, 4:08 AM ET



The United States has agreed to sell Taiwan 66 advanced fighter jets to counter China's continued arms build-up, it was reported.

A Taiwanese delegation proposed the procurement of the fleet of F-16C/D fighters during an annual military meeting with Washington early this month, the China Times said.

"The United States has given its nod over the sales of 66 F-16C/D Block 52s for at least 100 billion Taiwan dollars (3.1 billion US)," the paper said, without naming a source.

If the report is confirmed, it would be the biggest arms deal Washington has offered Taiwan since 2001 when US President George W. Bush agreed to provide the island with eight diesel-powered submarines, 12 P-3C submarine-hunting aircraft and an improved version of Patriot missiles, the paper said.

Taiwan's defense ministry declined to comment on the report.

The new planes aim to reinforce the air force's combat capability before it can acquire so-called "third generation" fighters from the United States, the paper said.

The United States in 1992 agreed to sell Taiwan 150 less sophisticated F-16A/Bs, but refused to provide F-16C/Ds which have a longer range and powerful ground attack capability.

In addition to 146 F-16A/B fighters, the air force has 128 locally produced Indigenous Defense Fighters and 56 French-made Mirage 2000-5s, along with 60 or so aging F-5 Tigers.

President Chen Shui-bian has pledged gradually to increase military spending to around three percent of gross domestic product, up from 2.5 percent currently.

China has repeatedly threatened to invade Taiwan should it move towards formal independence, prompting the island to seek more advanced weaponry.

China announced in March its military budget for this year would rise 14.7 percent to 35 billion dollars, the latest in a series of double-digit annual increases dating back to the early 1990s.

A Pentagon report last year estimated that China's defense spending was two to three times the publicly announced figure and that the cross-strait military balance was tipping in Beijing's favor.

[AssKissinger]

I guess they can fuck better than they can read.

55 million Chinese women are illiterate Wed Jul 19, 3:20 AM ET



A total of 55 million Chinese women are illiterate, forcing them to live more disadvantaged lives than their male counterparts.

The figure was given by Zhao Shaohua, vice chairwoman of the All-China Women's Federation, while attending a conference on Asian women in Beijing, the Xinhua news agency reported.

"Women in rural areas who lead poor lives account for more than 60 percent of the total rural laborers," she said. "Besides, women's incomes are lower than men's and the gap is widening."

China has done considerable work in recent decades to spread primary education and eradicate illiteracy, but in a plan announced in March only promised free nine-year compulsory education for all rural students within two years.

Poor farmers faced with choosing whether to put their son or daughter through school often prefer educating sons, leading to a far higher illiteracy rate among women than men.

Previous reports have suggested the illiteracy rate among Chinese women is nearly 16 percent, while it is just six percent among males.

Under the plan rural parents would no longer have to pay tuition and would only have to pay the costs of books and supplies. But schools are poorly monitored and underfunded and excessive fees charged by them could still force parents to take their daughters out of school.

The fact that Chinese is one of the world's most complex writing systems also does not help.

China's spending on education amounted to just 2.79 percent of GDP in 2004, far less than the world average of 4.2 percent. It plans to increase spending to 4.0 percent of GDP within the next five years.

[American Oyaji]

I guess they can fuck better than they can read.

AK,
Every mammal instinctually knows how to screw.

No one had to teach YOU to keep thrusting until something happened, did they?

[AssKissinger]

AK,
Every mammal instinctually knows how to screw.

No one had to teach YOU to keep thrusting until something happened, did they?

Dude, considering how long it's been since you've had some hole time...don't talk to me about pussy.

[Greji]

AK,
Every mammal instinctually knows how to screw.

Quite true, but some of us are better at it than others!

[Buraku]

China on Thursday blasted the UN Security Council's failure to agree a statement condemning the killing of four UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, amid signs of a backlash on other key negotiations.
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/a060727165650.uacy6tei.html


China needs stronger military forces as it faces growing instability and threats to national security, the ruling Communist Party's ideological mouthpiece said according to reports in the state media on Wednesday.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2006/07/26/china_eyes_stronger_military_against_threats/

[Greji]

China on Thursday blasted the UN Security Council's failure to agree a statement condemning the killing of four UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, amid signs of a backlash on other key negotiations.

How did Bob Dylan say it? "How does it feel?"

How many times have they refused to take part, or threatened veto (or veto'd) to block or defeat other issues that they didn't care for or could see as fitting their own needs?

Welcome to the real world China and hope it is not you next time!

[homesweethome]

North Korea Prepares For WAR

Seoul (AsiaNews/Agencies) - North Korea has ordered its soldiers and citizens to prepare for wartime mobilisation, a senior South Korean intelligence official said yesterday as the parties wait for China to decide whether it will take part in talks with the United States, Russia, Japan and South Korea to discuss ways to get North Korea back to the six-nations talks.

Japan Considers FIRST STRIKE

North Korea's Taepodong-2 test launch on July 4 has triggered a profound debate about Japan's future. Following the test, a major Japanese newspaper reported what appeared to be a trial balloon for a major strategic debate about adopting a preemptive strike option for Japan's Self Defense Forces if the country is ever threatened with a nuclear ballistic missile strike.

[Buraku]

China's Military Holds High Technology War Exercise
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Chinas_Military_Holds_High_Technology_War_Exercise_999.html
China's military has conducted a first-ever war exercise involving joint forces at a northern training base to test its high-technology combat capabilities, state media said Thursday. More than 20,000 personnel participated in the exercise code-named "North Sword -- 0607(S)", which was organized by the People's Liberation Army's Beijing Area Command, the Xinhua news agency said.

its funny how much alike japan china are
both view the other as evil oppressors who must be stopped

[Buraku]

Google mislays Tibet
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/18/google_tibet/
....The rest, as we all know, is history. While the Tibet issue has become one of Hollywood A-listers' pet causes célèbres and an ongoing source of indignation to lovers of democracy worldwide, the Chinese have got on with the business of dragging the country kicking and screaming into the 21st century (the Chinese version) or systematically raping and pillaging a once beautiful land (according to the pro-Tibet lobby).


China's railway police have swooped down on 185 touts scalping tickets for the newly-operated Qinghai-Tibet railway line as tourists scrambled for limited tickets.
http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?article=China+arrests+185+touts+on+Qinghai-Tibet+railway&id=13649
The people arrested were involved in 110 ticket brokering incidents, involving 812 tickets worth more than 470,000 yuan (USD 58,750), said Wei Yuzeng, an official in charge of security with the Ministry of Railways.

[Buraku]

[Buraku]

[Tsuru]

The James Bond-style exercise left a several-hundred- meter-wide cloud of scrap metal floating around in space

That's the real problem. I mean, space is a big enough place for stuff like this to float around, but if the space shuttle, ISS, a soyuz capsule or even an astronaut doing a spacewalk gets hit by bits of weather satellite coming the other way at a combined speed of 50000 km/h then they're royally fucked. Then we're talking Columbia many times over.

That's why aging satellites should always be slowed down to burn up in the upper atmosphere somewhere over the Pacific, not blown up. The lower orbits are already becoming dangerous places from all the debris and lost tools floating around.

[AssKissinger]

The lower orbits are already becoming dangerous places from all the debris and lost tools floating around.

That stuff protects us from aliens, dude. Now go back to talking to your plants.


[SIZE="1"]Dude, he's talking to a plant! [/SIZE]

[Tsuru]

That stuff protects us from aliens, dude. Now go back to talking to your plants.


[SIZE="1"]Dude, he's talking to a plant! [/SIZE]

I would have thought aliens capable of travelling al this way will have invented some kind of deflector, so the only civilisation that space garbage really poses a threat to is the one without deflectors... us! :P

[AssKissinger]

China weapons test shakes up world view By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jan 23, 2:52 PM ET



China has sent men into orbit and launched dozens of satellites, but its test of a satellite-killing weapon is shaking up perceptions about where the Chinese space program is headed.

The test, confirmed by Beijing on Tuesday after nearly a two-week silence, has drawn criticism from the U.S. and Japan, and touched off fears of an arms race in space.

The Chinese test "was an overtly military, very provocative event that cannot be spun any other way," said Rob Hewson, the London-based editor of Jane's Air-Launched Weapons. "So a bald assessment of that is that it's a big fat challenge."

The test is a shot across the bow of U.S. efforts to remain predominant in space and on the ground, where its military is heavily dependent on networks of satellites, particularly the low-altitude imaging intelligence models that help it find and hit targets. Japan, also seen as a regional rival, is similarly vulnerable, while any potential conflicts in space would put much of the industrialized world's economies at risk, given that satellites are used to relay phone calls and data and to map weather systems.

The Jan. 11 test, first reported last week by the magazine Aviation Week, destroyed a defunct Chinese weather satellite by hitting it with a warhead launched on board a ballistic missile. That made China only the third country after Russia and the U.S. to shoot down anything in space.

Before that, China's military and its space program were largely seen as capable, but lagging in innovation. Still, its unclear what message China intended to send, underscoring the opacity of China's space and military programs and deepening suspicion over its avowed commitment to the purely peaceful use of space.

Beijing has repeatedly pledged peaceful development of its army — the world's largest — but has caused unease among its neighbors by announcing double-digit military spending increases nearly every year since the early 1990s.

The anti-satellite test threatens to "undermine relationships and fuel military tensions between space-faring nations," David Wright, of the Massachusetts-based Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a statement posted on the group's Web site that was typical of criticisms from the U.S. scientific community.

On Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said it acknowledged holding the test to the U.S., Japan and other countries, but insisted it opposed any arms race in space. Both Washington and Tokyo have criticized the test as undermining efforts to keep weapons out of space.

In Washington, the Defense Department and President Bush's National Security Council declined to comment Tuesday.

However, while China's act looked aggressive, some U.S. officials were skeptical that Beijing would do anything to attack the satellites of the United States or Japan — key trading partners. According to the CIA World Fact Book, China sold more to the United States in 2005 than any other nation — 21.4 percent of its exports. Hong Kong was second, with 16.3 percent, and Japan was third with 11 percent.

China has released no details publicly, although Aviation Week said the missile lifted off from or near the Xichang base in southwest China, the country's main commercial satellite launch center. The military's missile corps, the 2nd Artillery, likely took part in the launch as well.

Knocking out U.S. military satellites would be a priority in any regional war against the U.S. or Japan, either over Taiwan or other territorial claims, or to keep its sea lanes open for deliveries of oil and gas.

One immediate casualty of the test could be budding ties between the Chinese and the U.S. and European space programs, experts said. NASA's chief administrator Michael Griffin visited China last year to discuss cooperation projects, and China has partnered with the European Space Agency on the Galileo navigation satellite network to compete with the U.S. Global Positioning System.

Now the test "will make it very difficult for the U.S. to talk about space cooperation with China any time soon," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense, security and space intelligence consultancy based in Alexandria, Va.

Some say China isn't the only one rushing to acquire military capabilities in space.

President Bush signed an order in October tacitly asserting the U.S. right to space weapons and opposing the development of treaties or other measures restricting them — a move some analysts speculated may have helped spur the Chinese test.

Bush has also pushed an ambitious program of space-based missile defense and the Pentagon is working on missiles, ground lasers and other technology to shoot down satellites.

However, the Pentagon's budget is severely constrained by Iraq and Afghanistan and a drive to replace outdated planes and ships, making space programs a lower priority and prompting some to warn the U.S. could be losing ground in space.

"We are falling behind, if not losing, on many measures of space superiority," Defense Department contractor Stephen Hill said Monday at a forum in Washington.

China's promotion of anti-satellite weapons is underpinned by its doctrine of "asymmetric warfare" that envisions defeating the U.S. or another powerful foe by knocking away key capabilities rather than through frontal assault.

Anti-satellite weapons development has likely benefited from the increasing attention garnered by China's space program, which entered a new era with its first manned space flight in 2003.

A second mission in 2005 put two astronauts, or "yuhangyuan," into orbit for a week and a third manned launch is planned for next year. This year, China plans to put into space a lunar probe which will orbit the moon at an altitude of 125 miles.

Despite the successes, China's space program had been seen as lacking in innovation, overly cautious and, perhaps most importantly, non-threatening to Washington. That evaluation may now have to change.

"You could argue that China is getting ready to do a lot of things that the U.S. is now losing the ability to do," Hewson said. "So that in itself is a challenge to the U.S."

[Buraku]

US Military Prepared For Worst With China
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Military_Prepared_For_Worst_With_China_999.html

Meanwhile Bush is allowing the US treasury to get assfucked in Iraq

[Tsuru]

[floatr][/floatr]Top news story in China ignored in U.S.; Beijing furious about warming of American-Taiwanese relations

Prisonplanet

In an astounding development that has completely failed to register any attention amongst mainstream U.S. media, China promised to escalate preparations for war in advance of a potential conflict, after President Bush shook hands with a Taiwanese government official yesterday.

Bush shook hands and met with Taiwan's representative to the United States, Joseph Wu, on Tuesday, during a commemoration for victims of Communism in Washington DC.

In a headline story that aired at 10pm Shanghai time Wednesday night on the Hong Kong based PHTV news channel, Chinese government leaders threatened to plan new war games and heighten military readiness in anticipation of any attempt by the U.S. to defend Taiwan should a Chinese invasion occur, or simply if Taiwan declares its independence.

According to the news station, Taiwanese media were manipulating the handshake for their own geopolitical agenda.

Click here for video in Chinese.

Officials expressed stern-faced concern and spoke of dire consequences during a press conference as China made clear its fury that Bush had even chosen to acknowledge Wu's visit.

"We insist to keep the current peaceful relations as we promised Taiwan's citizens. We have prepared to stop (prohibit) any activities, conduct and any excuses to divide Taiwan away from China in whatever cause, the activities are going to cause serious harm. Chenshuibian's (President of Taiwan) conspiracy of an independent Taiwan causes serious harm in our peaceful relations. We will resort to military action if they continue these irresponsible actions," said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Yang Li. (rough translation).

The news anchor noted that the handshake heralded a change of direction in the Bush administration's approach to Taiwan, with the U.S. government having previously backed away from its resolve to defend Taiwan should an invasion occur, as its treaty with the country dictates.

If anything's for sure, it's the fact that China, unlike Kim Jong-Il and his routinely belligerent rhetoric, isn't bluffing.

According to an editorial in the China Post today, "Beijing has deployed some 1,000 missiles targeting Taiwan and the sea-lanes surrounding the island, with 50 to 100 being added annually."

When considered alongside recent talk of a new cold war between the U.S. and Russia after Vladimir Putin's vocal opposition to Bush's plan to erect missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, this new escalation suggests the world is sleepwalking towards global conflict and a total breakdown of the existing international structure.

The news that China is intending to escalate tensions is clearly aimed at Taiwan directly, but we have managed to break through the electronic Berlin wall to provide this information to American citizens, whose corporate press seems too interested in Paris Hilton's latest escapade to bother about the fact that the globe's next superpower is openly hyping what could lead to world war three.

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Personally, I think China needs to get a life.

[Buraku]

Bush knows about a place called Peiking
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070831/ap_on_re_au_an/australia_bush;_ylt=Ao6FrxMGc_rBVrDzu9hK4Yqs0NUE

SYDNEY, Australia - President Bush said in an interview broadcast Friday that he would be concerned about China's military if the country ever turned hostile, and he urged allied countries to keep their troops in Iraq.


Speaking to Australia's Sky News network in Washington ahead of a visit to Australia an annual meeting of Pacific Rim leaders, Bush addressed China's growing economy and military.

"My view of China is that they're internally focused to the extent that they want economic growth and vitality, they're externally focused in order to get the raw materials they need, but if they ever turn hostile, I would be concerned about the military," Bush said

[Buraku]

Chinese Sub Pops Up Undetected in U.S. Navy Exercise

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/3540

[Greji]

Chinese Sub Pops Up Undetected in U.S. Navy Exercise

http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/3540

A lot of over kill in the article. It's hard to say whether, or not, the writer is trying to paint a picture of a war-like China, or an enept US Navy. He could have surfaced for many reasons. The writer prefers to portray he was laughing at the US something like, "See I could have got a couple of tubes off at you and you didn't even know I was there". On the other hand, he could have been just surfacing to fill his air, or could have had a maintenance problem.

Something the writer didn't address is that he may have been pinged and had to surface to show his "amiable" intentions, or eat an ASROC. The boat was an old deisel and they do make a lot of noise, unless he was just lying on the bottom waiting for them to approach, it would have been pretty hard for him (not impossible though) to sneak up as the writer describes.

Also, the Navy will normally not announce if they had him and when they picked him up, for obvious reasons as not to show capabilities. Plus they may even play dumb to his presence to give a false sense of security to the opponent.

The sub vs Fleet senario games have been going on for years with all capable countries.

[Buraku]

Asia Is About to Give U.S. a Kick in the Fannie: William Pesek

Commentary by William Pesek

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Intelligence reports. Unemployment statistics. National-security estimates. Political polls. World leaders sure have their hands full digesting reams of data.

The next U.S. president should add this to his must-read list: the Federal Reserve's H.4.1 table.

Economists have long weeded through the New York Fed's weekly release. With a dry, wonky name such as ``Factors Affecting Reserve Balances of Depository Institutions and Condition Statement of Federal Reserve Banks,'' it's no wonder U.S. presidents aren't known to peruse its contents.

Yet it will tell the next leader -- be it Republican John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama -- how willing foreigners are to continue financing the U.S.'s way of life. Alas, there are good reasons for the U.S. to learn how to live without Asia's money.

The great stampede out of dollar assets that many analysts predicted hasn't happened. Demand for U.S. debt has been quite resilient amid a sliding dollar and a widening credit crisis. Even problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac haven't yet precipitated a massive capital exodus.

The operative word is ``yet.'' The almost $10 billion drop in central-bank holdings of agency debt this month doesn't necessarily mean the flight is afoot. Yet Asia is anxiously awaiting news of how the U.S. handles troubles at government- sponsored mortgage-finance companies.

China, for example, holds $376 billion of long-term U.S. agency debt and, according to James McCormack, head of Asian sovereign ratings at Fitch Ratings Ltd. in Hong Kong, most of it is in Fannie and Freddie assets. Fannie and Freddie aren't just too big to fail -- they're too geopolitical to fail.

Catastrophic Risk

``If the U.S. government allows Fannie and Freddie to fail and international investors are not compensated adequately, the consequences will be catastrophic,'' Yu Yongding, a former adviser to China's central bank, said last week. ``If it is not the end of the world, it is the end of the current international financial system.''

Even if Fannie and Freddie are bailed out, recent events mark the end of the U.S.'s financing arrangement as we know it. It's a reality for which the U.S. should now plan.

China alone will be a prickly customer to deal with. A conservative estimate would put China's U.S. agency holdings at 10 percent of its gross domestic product.

Say the U.S. opted not to repay investors on time and in full. How would China's 1.3 billion people, awash in post- Olympics confidence, respond to the wealthy U.S. leaving China with big losses? If the tables were turned, you can just imagine the public outcry for the U.S. to stop lending to China.

Asia Holds Mortgage

Those arguing the U.S. will hold its ground in these turbulent times ignore how dependent the U.S. is on Asia's money. It's often said that the U.S. built a large, productive economy over the years, and Asia holds the mortgage. Well, it's true.

It's also true that Asia has few alternatives. The magnitude of the region's trade surpluses leaves few options other than parking money in the most liquid securities and keeping currencies from rising into uncompetitive territory.

One alternative is euro assets, though diversifying out of the dollar has its risks. If investors got wind of big dollar holders such as Japan, China or Russia rushing into the euro, markets would plunge and leave central banks with major losses.

While this is a tale of co-dependency, the real issue is the extent to which the U.S. is reliant on foreign money.

The U.S. current-account deficit was $176.4 billion in the first quarter, compared with the average shortfall of $100 billion since 1993. That isn't the product of the U.S. supporting global growth; it's about Asia's money helping the U.S. live perilously beyond its means.

Fractured System

If Wall Street's woes worsen, Asia will need those reserves to ward off speculators. Even so, the dollar's gyrations over the last year will make Asians wary.

The Fed's interest-rate cuts weakened the dollar 7 percent against the euro and 5 percent against the yen over the last year, while Bear Stearns Cos.' demise dented confidence in American-style capitalism. Sovereign wealth funds that plunged billions of dollars into U.S. banks may have second thoughts.

For Obama or McCain, the challenge will be to repair a fractured U.S. financial system and to wean consumers off their habit of overborrowing. The process will be even harder as the U.S. finds itself less able to rely on financing from Asia.

How would McCain pay for tax cuts without Asia's money? How would Obama follow through on his protectionist rhetoric in a region on which the U.S. is so dependent?

All the talk from Obama or McCain about a strong America ignores how the U.S. is losing some economic-policy autonomy. Any move by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to restructure U.S. agency debt now has foreign-policy consequences and will need to be looked at through that prism.

There's no doubt the next U.S. leader will be a busy man. What's less in doubt is that he will have to manage with less financial help from Asia.

[pheyton]

I have always thought that the US was luring in the worlds money, not only to keep our economy going, but also to tie up the rest of the world. Get them so heavily invested in us that they have no choice but to keep the dollar and our economy afloat. To do otherwise would send their own economies into free fall.

China will kick the US's ass. It's inevitable.

[Buraku]

Will continue to quote the dead

I hope the West wins

Before I was sure now not so much

Who's the transexual in the video sequence of the Letterman show?

Weird Al?

[Buraku]

China's Gearing Up to Take the Moon and Mars?

What about cooling in the summer?



Just wondering.....?

Race will be on for Cold-Fusion soon, not sure if Chinese can do it but they have spied on, copied and reverse engineered everything the West does within 6 months

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson warns China may be trying to take over the Moon and stop other countries exploring it.
https://asiatimes.com/2022/07/nasa-warn ... -the-moon/

and just to make things worse, Biden Kamala hate Elon Musk? So they will have to use old NASA ideas??

[Buraku]

Powering Up in Space: Is Nuclear the Answer? - War on the Rocks
https://warontherocks.com/2022/07/power ... the-answer