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2004-10-11 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2004-10-11 12:38:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'll be more worried about TAIWAN, where mainland China is worried Taiwan's leadership will begin de facto work for SOVEREIGN STATEHOOD. As a matter of strategic military operations, the capture of TAIWAN by any Chicom milfors will allow China to AIRBORNE "LEAPFROG" straight into the Phillippines and WESTPAC-CENTPAC, and cut off potential US Air and Sea links to JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA, and East Asia in general - in addition, a nuclearized and militarily powerful Japan, and ditto a powerful South Korea, especially if capable of militarily damaging interior Chinese territory or targets, only makes conventional-only Taiwan more credible as the "Path of Least Resistance" for China's People's Liberation Army. Lastly, the socio-cultural similarities and sympathies between the mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese cannot be denied, whereas there is historical and competitive animosity still to consider between the societies of mainland China and Japan proper! Of all America's potential enemies during the Gloabl War on Terror, only mainland China possesses the level of national ethos, level of nuclear arms, and available quantitative manpower to exercise both short-term and protractive, but differentiated, militarized warfighting options against America, be it mechanized blitzkrieg to static "people's war" or armed insurgency!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2004-10-11 5:18:33 AM|| [http://n/a] 2004-10-11 5:18:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 China has this great, big, beautiful new dam, which unfortunately is already developing cracks in the cement....

Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-11 6:51:46 AM|| 2004-10-11 6:51:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm not sure what I did to have all that pretty, wasted, yellow space above. Sorry. (Yes, that is a comma between the two adjectives. Stop snickering.)

Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-11 10:10:55 AM|| 2004-10-11 10:10:55 AM|| Front Page Top

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