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2022-08-21 China-Japan-Koreas

Gordon Chang - China Is Preparing To Go To War

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-21 01:41|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 Rubbish! If you believe conspiracy theorist Gordon Chang, you probably also believe the term 'Gain of Function' is somehow connected to biological warfare research.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-21 02:21|| 2022-08-21 02:21|| Front Page Top

#2 They hit us like Pearl Harbor, but we ignored the attack so that we could win the election of Joe Biden. This will confuse American History students in the future unless we end up as serfs to Klause Schwab’s replacement Justine Trudeau.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-08-21 09:21|| 2022-08-21 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 How will they feed their troops?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-08-21 10:32|| 2022-08-21 10:32|| Front Page Top

#4 How much of this is 'War Preparations' and how much of this is the Central Communist Party clawing back power and wealth (same thing really) that various Oligarchs had accumulated? China has a long history of 'Warlords' breaking away from the 'Central Authority' and doing mischief ...maybe even plotting rebellion.

Posted by magpie 2022-08-21 11:22|| 2022-08-21 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 /\...Not that I am saying that Preparations for War and 'Reestablishing the Imperial Majesty internal rule' can't happen at the same time.

Posted by magpie 2022-08-21 11:25|| 2022-08-21 11:25|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm not exactly an "old China hand," but this matches what I'm picking up by keeping my ear tuned to various sources. China feels it's reaching a "it's now or never" moment; and "now" looks a lot better than "never." And they need to get their population's mind off how their system's contradictions are being highlighted (if you will forgive my paraphrasing some Lenin.)

Plus, as much as most of us don't like the CCP, there isn't a clamor among the American public to go to war with China. Quite the opposite, as the contradictions are being highlighted here as well.

....which probably means war, doesn't it?

Posted by Secret Master 2022-08-21 11:26|| 2022-08-21 11:26|| Front Page Top

#7 If China sees its overseas imports get shut down where is it going to go for resources?

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-21 11:48|| 2022-08-21 11:48|| Front Page Top

#8 China has been preparing for war against America for a generation, according to things people have been saying here.

China feels it's reaching a "it's now or never" moment; and "now" looks a lot better than "never."

With their population having reached the inflection point a decade earlier than admitted, and the country dependent on imports for both food and fuel, now or never sounds right. But the impression I have is that China’s is a land army, which has certainly annoyed the neighbours, but won’t get them to America, though I’m not at all qualified to judge. And athough —again an impression — they don’t seem to have the corruption problems seen in Russia, all their tires are made in China, too.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-21 11:57|| 2022-08-21 11:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Do they have a plan for when the first bomb hits 3 gorges dam?

Posted by Silentbrick 2022-08-21 12:01|| 2022-08-21 12:01|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ TW: I was thinking they might attack Taiwan and see what we do about it.

Posted by Secret Master 2022-08-21 12:09|| 2022-08-21 12:09|| Front Page Top

#11 I was thinking they might attack Taiwan and see what we do about it.

We’ve been discussing that here, too, Secret Master. My takeaway was that would be much harder for China to accomplish than it appears — but again, I’m not qualified to judge.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-21 12:27|| 2022-08-21 12:27|| Front Page Top

#12 America has never in recent memory been more politically disaffected, in debt, ignorant, fatigued by foreign failures, and poorly led by the Puppet Show leadership committee. If not now, at the height of their military, manufacturing, trade and political influence strategies of the past 20 years, then when, as their entire trajectory is flatlining across all the specturms of power as a nation? Xi needs an external focus to rouse the awakening masses.

Their problem is that pesky body of water, Taiwanese air power, 50 years of defensive anti-amphib assault prep, and few airborne drop zones that won't be killing grounds as they push the stick out the door! If they do standoff and bounce the rubble with long-range precision munitions to obviate all that, why bother to then arrive and deal with the massive graves registration, public health and Berlin-level wasteland?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-08-21 12:42|| 2022-08-21 12:42|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm sure Tiawan has just been sitting there doing nothing.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-08-21 20:37|| 2022-08-21 20:37|| Front Page Top

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