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2003-06-11 East Asia

Beijing Plans to Reorganize Its Armed Forces

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Posted by Steve White 2003-06-11 10:43 am|| || Front Page|| [14 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Scary stuff. The midget Stalins that run Red China eat, breathe, and excrete oppression. They're going to go on an international military rampage sometime in the next decade, mark my words. It's not going to be fun for anybody.

Posted by Secret Master 2003-06-11 11:42:11|| [www.budgetwarrior.com] 2003-06-11 11:42:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Nice story, but the PLA will resist this. The largest industrial employer in China is the PLA. A whole heap of money runs into the PLA, and thus its officers. Not gonna happen.

It's the expansion of the PLA Navy that is worrisome. China believes that it used to be a naval power and wants to be so, again. It was a power, in the South China Sea and Sea of Japan. The current rulers hope to translate their perspective of the successes of Imperial naval power into regional if not world naval power. Again, not gonna happen.

China teeters on the edge economicly. Its trade surpluses are necessary to fund both food and fuel purchases, as well as the military hardware it's buying. Any little swing puts famine back on the agenda in China.

China is a huge country. While parts are nearly First World, most of China is a Third World country. They don't even speak the same language as you move east to west or north to south. Chinese empires traditionally fall apart because the country is to diverse to be governable.

Posted by Chuck 2003-06-11 11:50:39|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-06-11 11:50:39|| Front Page Top

#3 The best way to cut the legs out from under the Chinese Military/Industrial Complex that really runs the country would be to start buying from India and Tiawan. With all of the purchases that they have to be making overseas we could put a real cash flow crunch on them

Posted by Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-06-11 12:45:38|| 2003-06-11 12:45:38|| Front Page Top

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