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2012-01-13 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Pappy 2012-01-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Troubles in paradise?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-01-13 03:27|| 2012-01-13 03:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like a purge in the military to me. They have several that speak of the future of China and its people. Not just power. The idea that government can stiffle development and creativity.
These are smart people who in my opinion think creatively. To some they are a threat. Soon we will see if heads will roll. Why they would speak the truth or have a diffrent opinion in that enviornment is beyond me.

Posted by Dale 2012-01-13 07:35|| 2012-01-13 07:35|| Front Page Top

#3 The Japanese militarists didn't succeed the first time they tried, either. And Hitler's Munich caucus didn't work out too well. Practice, practice, practice.

The real question for China is whether the center will hold or the place falls apart into strongholds of competing war lords. In either case, it will be bad news for China, Norks and Paks but it is unclear whether it will be bad news for any one else

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2012-01-13 08:24|| 2012-01-13 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 but it is unclear whether it will be bad news for any one else

For anyone else who still remembers how to make things.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-01-13 08:46|| 2012-01-13 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Civilian control is via the purse strings. Since the Chinese military owns their own manufacturing companies and therefore earns money independently of the civilian budgets, what really is there to keep them in line? The Chinese party's secret police? Maybe the Chinese gestapo should look up from the assault on Falun Gong.

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2012-01-13 09:05|| 2012-01-13 09:05|| Front Page Top

#6 The devil you know against the devil that you don't know.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-01-13 11:21|| 2012-01-13 11:21|| Front Page Top

#7 For a long time now there has been concern that some of the most powerful regional military commanders have become de facto warlord-princes (N.B. with nuclear weapons at their command).

This really started to gripe when some of these commanders decided that their commands should be hereditary, their sons having been promoted by them to be on their command staff as their ranking subordinates.

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-01-13 13:29|| 2012-01-13 13:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Follow the money. As long as the political leaders are increasing the funding of the military and upgrading its capabilities, they don't seriously believe the military is a political threat. When you start seeing them cutting the size of the military, then they are afraid.

Posted by crosspatch 2012-01-13 16:49|| 2012-01-13 16:49|| Front Page Top

#9 I believe it was POTUS Reagan whom said or inferred it best -[paraph] once people get a taste(s) of freedom, good or bad they will want more + demand changes.

The CPC/CCP has times worried about how long the Chinese Commie-Socialist model can withstand the combo of pressures to nationally modernize while resisting the Western-style democratic or liberatrian flexibities required to induce suc modernizations.

EVEN TOP GENERALS + ADMIRALS LIKE $$$, GOOD LIFE, + ULTRA-MODERN = LATEST FIREPOWER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-13 18:39|| 2012-01-13 18:39|| Front Page Top

#10 ION CATHAY ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA COLLAPSE COULD BRING ECONOMIC CRISIS TO CLIMAX IN 2012.

* SAME > CHINA DENOUNCES "HONG KONGER" TREND; + HONG KONG FRUSTRATED BY INFLUX OF CHINESE BIRTHS, by new migrant Chinese from mainland China.

Beijing rants agz Study revealing that many LT Hong Kongers don't see or identify themselves as "Chinese" or Citizens of mainland China.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-13 20:35|| 2012-01-13 20:35|| Front Page Top

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