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2005-12-23 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese general punished for nuclear gaffe

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Posted by Fred 2005-12-23 00:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...would be seen as too weak towards the United States": IOW, in PC Commiespeak and Leftspeak it means being proven right/correct by being proven wrong, and vice versa. Never say never.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-12-23 00:55|| 2005-12-23 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Why don't they show us they really mean it and send him to bed without supper.

Posted by badanov 2005-12-23 01:50|| http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl]">[http://www.freefirezone.org/cgi-bin/index.pl] 2005-12-23 01:50|| Front Page Top

#3 MacArthur, a WWI and WWII war hero, was retired for speaking out of turn. This guy Zhu is a nonentity, and yet they are letting him keep his rank. This is eyewash, meant to mislead China's neighbors into thinking that China's long-term intentions are peaceful.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-12-23 06:43|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-12-23 06:43|| Front Page Top

#4 China says and does a lot but what they don't say is where you gotta look hard. This General is getting slapped for stating the obviouse but none the less something that was not supposed to be mentioned.

Posted by 49 pan">49 pan 2005-12-23 08:45|| 2005-12-23 08:45|| Front Page Top

#5 This is eyewash, meant to mislead China's neighbors into thinking that China's long-term intentions are peaceful.

Then it seems to me it will backfire. Seriously, ZF, are the Chinese such navel gazers that they could not anticipate what the foreign reaction to this would be and that it is actually counter productive? Is this an indication of how Chinese they are or how Communist?

Posted by Pheath Cruling9911 2005-12-23 08:47|| 2005-12-23 08:47|| Front Page Top

#6 PC9911: Is this an indication of how Chinese they are or how Communist?

I'm afraid this is very Chinese. Two centuries ago, the Chinese emperor rejected Great Britain's request for expanded trade relations with China and urged that the subject not be brough up again, ever. He addressed King George (yes, that King George) thusly: O king, Tremblingly Obey and Show No Negligence!

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-12-23 10:17|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-12-23 10:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Gotta hand it to the Chinks. I like it! An âadministrative demeritâ is what our US Army RANGERS should have received for knocking around a few terrorist prisoners.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-12-23 10:21|| 2005-12-23 10:21|| Front Page Top

#8 PC9911: Seriously, ZF, are the Chinese such navel gazers that they could not anticipate what the foreign reaction to this would be and that it is actually counter productive?

I think this may be more a sop to Chinese doves than a concession to foreign disapproval. The issue isn't navel-gazing - it's that they don't feel they need to worry about foreign perceptions today, and will have even less of a need to do so in the future as China grows stronger due to its runaway economic growth.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-12-23 10:26|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-12-23 10:26|| Front Page Top

#9 An administrative demerit is the second lightest punishment on a scale of one to five, but still potentially damaging to his career. The lightest is an administrative warning, while the heaviest is expulsion.¹ âHis chances for promotion in the future are extremely slim,â another source said.

¹ I thought the heaviest punishment was a bullet to the back of the head at a packed soccer stadium at halftime...

Posted by BigEd 2005-12-23 11:54|| 2005-12-23 11:54|| Front Page Top

#10 I'd killed once for a nuclear gaf

/Ted Williams, somewhere off Peru

Posted by Leon Clavin 2005-12-23 17:40|| 2005-12-23 17:40|| Front Page Top

#11 ZF, Thanks, though this makes Kaiser Wilhelm seem as sensitive as Alan Alda. These guys are dumb enough to start a war.

Posted by Pheath Cruling9911 2005-12-23 17:52|| 2005-12-23 17:52|| Front Page Top

#12 PC9911: ZF, Thanks, though this makes Kaiser Wilhelm seem as sensitive as Alan Alda. These guys are dumb enough to start a war.

Well, the Kaiser did say Once, a thousand years ago, the Huns under their King Attila made a name for themselves, one still potent in legend and tradition.[3] May you in this way make the name German remembered in China for a thousand years so that no Chinaman will ever again dare to even squint at a German!. The thing is - the Kaiser was in high dudgeon over the Chinese government having tortured a German envoy to death. In contrast, the Chinese emperor's missive to King George was simply over a British request for trade relations.

As to starting a war, I doubt China will do it until it's good and ready. It's not an accident of history that China is one of the largest land empires in the world. It started out as a collection of villages on the banks of the Yellow River. The Chinese empire has endured even as European empires dissolved into their component provinces. That's not to say that its borders remained static. Every time the empire fell apart, some pretender to the throne always found a way to put it back together again, typically adding chunks of foreign territory in the process. China is a peaceful country - during periods of relative weakness.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-12-23 19:56|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-12-23 19:56|| Front Page Top

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