China DEMANDS!

Originally posted by SLAYER69
So...

If anything the two wars have benefited many global producers who have and are still contributing to the now over Iraq campaign and the continuing war in Afghanistan.


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Like what? Makers of hitech visors for a few thousand troops?

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It was all for show. They were back here after just less than a decade due to clandestine means (just google Michael Meiring. ) If anything it was a volcano that sent the Americans packing (Mt. Pinatubo in 1991.)

Originally posted by silent thunder

Originally posted by jam321
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700 bases in 39 countries .

I agree with Slayer that the number is overinflated.

Would also like to add that countries get paid for allowing us to have bases on their lands. If they so desire, they can ask us to leave after contract expires in the same manner the Philippines did.

Funny thing how the Philippines kinda sorta changed their mind on that one a bit later with the whole Spratley's thing and all.

They miss us when were gone...awwww.

Don't flatter yourself. You're here again because you're bribing our officials. You need a base here for the oncoming war with China. (It's really coming.)

Originally posted by SLAYER69
United States to Allow More Hi-Tech Exports to China

Jul. 31 – 2009 The United States will soon allow more high-tech exports to China as part of the issues agreed upon during the recently concluded China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue this week.

Trade between nations is good, but only if it is free and fair. Competition needs to be fair and not be predatory or exploitative. If they continue to proceed down this path of a ONEWAY mentality they will end up with a growth Spurt instead of a sustained economic boom. There are already signs of cracks in their supposed shiny new armor/economy.

Hitech exports? How much are they worth? 60 mil? 200 million?

Germany sells more hi tech exports to China. (They are better engineers than anyone else, inluding the Japanese.)

Fair competition. Right. Allow me to take you back to the 90s. America was suffering from $60 B in deficit trade with Japan. And they weren't manipulating their currency. They were simply exporting superior goods. And as with China now, Japan didn't have a market base the size of yours. So they'll never be able to buy the same amount you buy from them. Besides, who the hell would want to buy inflated, over-hyped, expensive and inferior American goods, anyway?

For you younger starry eyed "China worshipers" a warning.
Is Japan's economy a warning for China?
Overtake US

Back in the 1980s, it was Japan that was being tipped to one day even overtake the US, just like China is today. The economy was growing at a breakneck pace. On the last day of that decade the Nikkei 225 stock average closed at an all-time high of 38,916.

Banks were lending freely and property prices rose so high it was said that the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo was worth more than all the real estate in California.

Banks in China just stopped lending freely. They will not make the same mistakes the Japs did: www.abovetopsecret.com...
(see. no replies. people can't handle the truth.)

China's economy may be overtaking in terms of total size but its wealth is spread among 10 times more people.

China is a house, regardless of occupants, with excess cash in the trillions. America is a house, regardless of occupants, on the verge of bankruptcy.

Besides, like they are spreading it in those two houses. No can do, comrade!

The Republic is still strong, the resolve of the citizens is still there.

Who cares? They're not cheap to hire, anyway.

It's seems to me that many here fail to remember when Japan was one day going to overshadow the US as the largest economy. Now look at them.

It seems to me that you fail to realize that the Germans and the Japs will never be able to overtake the US because of their smaller sizes. Just give them 75% of your size and we'll see what happens.

I think Toyota may be an example in a microcosm of whats wrong in Tokyo.

Overblown. Problems primarily stemming from pedals made by American parts maker.

Yadda Yadda Blah Blah Blah.

That fact remains that the "Present Chinese Government " is only what? 51 years young? AND has only been a "Capitalist" economy since when? 1978. Whats that? 32 years?

Age is nothing but a number. The Japanese overtook Germany in just a generation. Korea developed in two generations. And it didn't get American rebuilding money.

That poster is right. You really don't know your economics. Keep posting graphs and charts. They look nice.

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From Xinhua today:

BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese mainland spokesperson Wednesday stressed the peaceful development across the Taiwan Strait while commenting on a U.S. report on the weakness of Taiwan's air force.

"Compatriots across the Strait are of the same family and blood bond. We believe only the harmony among family members will benefit everyone," Fan Liqing, spokeswoman of the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, said at a regular press conference in Beijing.

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report, cited by the U.S. media on Monday, said far fewer of Taiwan's 400 combat aircraft in service are operationally capable.

The report was speculated as a move of Pentagon to provide justification for Washington to grant the sale of relatively advanced F-16 jet fighters to Taiwan.

The Chinese apparently actually believe that since the US is reporting that the Taiwan aircraft inventory is getting old and outdated that this is a big threat to China because it means that what the US is really saying is that the US needs to send in a fleet of nice new F 16s to replace the ailing aircraft!

Convoluted Chinese paranoia!

China Stresses Cross Strait Peaceful Development