R. David Steele wrote:
Remember that we are planning for a war with China by the end of
the decade.


Are you planning to fight them all yourself or do
you have a couple of buddies lined up to help ?

Keith

Ok, ok!!!

Not everyone keeps up with various policies and DoD planning.
the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen Myers, was picked
to plan for this potential war.

Actually, you're the one who seems out of touch. The Joint Staff plans for
all sorts of wars all the time. But Presidents don't pick Chairmen of the
JCS to plan any particular wars. Indeed, the Chairman's job is mostly to
supervise current ops; the Staff does long-term planning regardless of who
is in charge.

China has let it be known, there
are a number of papers coming out of their post graduate officers
school, that they plan to challenge us for control of the far
east. That means control over India, most of SE Asia (down to
Australia), Japan, the Philippines and Siberia.

China's policy appears to be primarily focussed on ensuring that no one else
interfrres with their own territory.

Also China has sent it agents off its soil as it never has in
5000 years. They now run the Panama Canal. Have bases all
throughout the Caribbean. Now own a port (former naval base) in
San Diego. And they have extensive operations all throughout
North Africa.

Oh, good grief. China has commercial intereasts worldwide, yes. But
there's no evidence that running port operations in Panama (NOT running the
Canal proper, BTW) translates into any sort of aggressive intent. INdeed,
the company that runs those ops is a Hong Kong-based multinational, not
controlled by the Chinese government as the fearmongers would have you
believe.


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