In reply to Standing Bear's message of Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:21:00 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Robin and all, > Nobody wishes more than I that we not be in our present >situation. I spent many years in the service of my nation and >know first hand about this enemy and what they are capable of. >My ex wife who is from Viet-Nam can tell you more. Much more! >The plain unhappy fact is that we are already in a fight with China >whether we want to believe it or not. We can choose to ignore >it and get buried, literally. Read my original post....again....please. [snip] Previously you wrote: >We are already in a military space race with China.
Of course you are. But that is true of all space faring nations. The question is more, how serious is it? Answer IMO, not very. The US is currently China's largest export market AFAIK, so it is not really in their interest to engage militarily. OTOH, they don't want to be left behind either, and right now, that's where they perceive themselves to be. >Look at all the >even recent spying events, the predatory computer invasion attempts by >organized Chinese hacking groups. All parties engage in this, but you only hear about it when "the other guy" does it. >Look at the recent speeches by >Chinese politicians talking about 'redressing the unipolar power structure...' After the breakup of the Soviet Union, that's exactly what the world got. A single major super-power; the US. So in that respect, the Chinese are correct. It *is* a "unipolar power structure". By redressing it, they mean that they also intend to become a super power, so that the US can't push them around the way it does smaller nations. >That is political code in their governance system for global 'regime change' No, "regime change" is a US invention, not Chinese. >Look at the mysterious satellite left behind by the recent Chinese space >shot. Probably a spy satellite.....like the dozens that the US has in orbit. >Look at Chinese pronouncements to get to the Moon one year ahead >of even our fuzzy minded accountant guided bureauflunkyracy's nonplans... >2017 instead of our '2018'. So you now have a bit of competition. :) Isn't that what your whole economy is based on? >Remember what happened to the JIMO project! Sorry, I have no idea what happened to it. >Look at the Chinese plans for mining helium3 on the moon, and their plans >to stake territorial claims along with their flags and their exploration >teams. ...and this is different to US plans...how? >Look at their hiding their defense budgets, ...I believe you call your hidden projects "black ops"? >at their accelerated >military buildups, pot calling kettle, come in kettle, pot here, over. >at their piracy recently of Japanese oil rights in the sea >between China and Japan in the Japanese exclusive economic sea zones. ..at your piracy of Iraqi oil, in Iraq itself. >That piracy was backed up by 56 Chinese warships for which the Japanese >have no counter. I would list the weaponry the US used in Iraq, but the email would get too long. >Look at the taking over of the Panama Canal by a front >organization of the Peoples Army of China...The list is endless. ...and yet not as long as the list of US "interventions" around the World. >One would >have to be a fool or a coward or a Chinese agent not to see. You see the splinter in your neighbors eye, but not the beam in your own. >And that is >not even addressing what continency plans they have for us in case of >war in North Korea. In addition, China is running out of fresh water and >arable land to feed its population. Then help us find a new source of energy, and at least this problem will be solved. (With water, the desert becomes arable). >It is seeking to control supplies of >fuels around the world and to deny them to us. ...and of course the US isn't doing that. >The only supply of fresh >water to supply their needs in the short run is Lake Baikal in Russia. >Russia better get its head out of its dreams of peace in Asia before it >is too late. I doubt the Russians are nearly as worried as you seem to be. >Chinese maps include all the Russian far east as its 'natural >territory'. This warning about the most odious threat to our people and >culture and values in the history of man is plainly evident to those who >would open their eyes to see. The biggest threat to the US at the moment already controls the nation. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
