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US to ask China why it needs an aircraft carrier and calls for military transparency
The United States said Wednesday it would like China to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier amid broader US concerns about Beijing's lack of transparency over its military aims. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWhy do YOU need so many carriers, US?
Aug 11th, 2011 - 12:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0ASSHOLES.
Yes, it's hypocrite from the US and as if they are “so transparant” about their defence budget. No, they're not. Anyway, soon they have to sell some of their ships, of budget cuts. It's just a matter of time.
Aug 11th, 2011 - 12:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0go China go !!!!!
Aug 11th, 2011 - 02:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3
Aug 11th, 2011 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and do you China to be the leading super power? Are you sure about that?
Do you really want to know why?
Aug 11th, 2011 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Read “Red Dragon Rising” E.Timperlake and W.Triplett A brilliant research on Chinese Mentality politics and military inspirations, ISBN
0-89526-258-4
You may learn something new, and refrain from meaningless shallow remarks that only demonstrate your total ignorance of this very sensitive subject.
Wangito.
@5 It wasn't a remark sunshine, it was a question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aug 11th, 2011 - 03:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you want a Dictatorship with a capitalism system with no human rights , censorship and oppression ? go right ahead, your choice. JMO
wangito. You have certainly picked an entertaining handle and in the diminutive too!!!
Aug 11th, 2011 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you have to pick between China and the US of today. which one do you pick?
Aug 11th, 2011 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I say, none.
As to the Nation that's going to lead in the future?
Aug 11th, 2011 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0well what can you say,
Aug 11th, 2011 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0that wont upset [wangito]
the expert said it all,
so why wast silly comments that we know nothing about,
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but on the other hand fxxk it,
a comment is a comment, and if we were all experts, we would not be her, we would all be on the council at the UN, would we not,
wangito, bust learn that a comment is just that,
its also noted as an opinion,
thing that ordinary people like you and me , say,
thats all it is,
wangito, is this ok,
or have i misunderstood your remark, like you sometimes misunderstand others,
sometimes its nice to make a comment, whether it very seriouse, or just witty,, some are rude, but being the man you seem to be,
might you also learn something, that you dont always belive what you read, and their are more than two books to choose from.
ignorence comes also from people like you that condemm others as stupid, but alas only your opinion is fine-ok-fact-
i make an opinion, if you dont like it tough,
i see so many comments which written by without thinking.!
Aug 11th, 2011 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0these subjects are heavy /highly strategical to need big thinking !
NO geo
Aug 11th, 2011 - 07:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0i was not and am not being insulting
i find it annoying when some people think we are all stupid with all maner of comments,
books were quoted,[we might learn something]
Sima Qian
His work influenced every subsequent author of history in China, including the prestigious Ban family of the Eastern Han Dynasty era.
Bibliography
• Chan, A; Children of Mao: Personality Development and Political Activism int he REd Guard Generation; University of Washington Press (1985)
• CHEN, JACK (1975). Inside the Cultural Revolution. Scribner. ISBN 0025246305.
• • GAO, MOBO (2008). The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745327808.
• LEE, HONG YONG (1978). The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520032977.
• MACFARQUHAR, RODERICK AND SCHOENHALS, MICHAEL (2006). Mao's Last Revolution. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674023321.
• SOLOMON, RICHARD H. (1971). Mao's Revolution and the Chinese Political Culture. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
• Spence, Jonathan D. (1999). The Search for Modern China, New York: W.W. Norton and Company. ISBN 0-393-97351-4.
• THURSTON, ANNE F. (1988). Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of Intellectuals in China's Great Cultural Revolution. Cambridge: Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World
by Steven Mosher
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
by Mark R. Levin
the point im making is,
i have not read them, but it does not mean i cannot make an honest comment, even if it is slightly wrong,
i not insult you boss,
it purley depends on how you read it,
sorry folks,sorry folks, in advance .
[] - 12 brit
Aug 11th, 2011 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0don't read these books vainly ,are only 1970/80 s years propaganda
tools..
i care what kind of books will be written after heavy borrowing
from China !!?
to be honest with you geo,
Aug 11th, 2011 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0i have no intention of reading them,
as this is not my subject, mine is more genealogy,
but i understand what you mean.
But is America really worried abt china, and if she is, would it not be wise to put pressure on those interested parties involved, and others like the british goverment to stop slashing the navy, in antisipation of what might be,
on the other hand, asking china why ??might be taken out of context,
is or would china expand aggresifly if she grew to big,
is the world right to worry, would china cope with being the new policeman of the world [far in the future]
its all hard to see, but perhaps the americans know things we dont,
or she is just jumpimh the gun, who knows ??
Actually, threat or not, it's nobody's business but China's.
Aug 11th, 2011 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why should they have to justify their defence to anyone?
And anyway, they don't care what we or anyone else thinks.
@ 13 hahaha you are insane!
Aug 12th, 2011 - 12:29 am - Link - Report abuse 015 lsolde correct
Aug 12th, 2011 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lmao. The US currently has 11 supercarriers and 10 small carriers. And is complaining because china has one?
Aug 15th, 2011 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0China has suffered a lot in the past with European western countries
Aug 15th, 2011 - 10:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0taking over some provinces in china in the past and exploiting it's people so
it makes sense that China wants to be a greater power that way other countries may not interfere with china's own affairs of state, Japan, Britain, France,Russia have all invaded China before? So it's China's right to protect its land and it's people as long as it does not interfere with the world.
@20Tigre2000,
Aug 16th, 2011 - 09:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Very true. l'm not proud of what my country did to China.
That China isn't a democracy says nothing on the way it will behave when, or if, it reaches dominant world power status. The US is a democracy, and just look how it acts. It is the country that most flaunts international law right there with North Korea and Israel. When it comes to foreign relations, the US is no more of a fair player than the Soviet Union was.
Aug 17th, 2011 - 01:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Countries act out of self-interest, and that is true for both democracies and dictatorships. What makes countries behave responsibly is essentially power: the more power another country has, the more likely is it that others will respect it; the weaker it is, the more likely is it that its rights will be violated and disregarded by other, stronger nations. If other regional or world powers other than China manage to accumulate or retain significant economic and military power, then China will respect them, it will not act fullishly in distant corners of the world (like the US did under Bush). If, however, China faces a situation where it has no meaningful rivals, then the inverse will happen. In sum, it is the balance of forces, not the “democracyness” of a nation, that predicts how it behaves in the international arena.
21 lsolde (#) Yes, remember The Opium War. Very fashionable to smoke opium at that time and nobody knew of the damaging side effects; and then the Boxer Uprising to try and get rid of all the Europeans.
Aug 17th, 2011 - 03:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Forgetit87: I agree. China as a nation in the past when it has been very powerful most of the time just kept itself to itself. Though i think Taiwan's future may be in jeopardy.
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