China's military budget jumps 14%

[thumperton]

<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4773358.stm" target="top">Saturday, 4 March 2006, 07:50 GMT<br>BBC NEWS</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The Chinese army is the biggest in the world <br><br>China has said it will increase its military spending by 14.7% this year to 283.8bn yuan ($35.3bn; £20bn).<br><br>However, a spokesman for the Chinese parliament said much of the rise would be to cover fuel and salaries and that China was a "peace-loving nation".<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->I think we know what this means... <p></p><i></i>

[Darklo]

Peace is war.<br><br>If I was running China Id wait until WW3 hits, then when everyone is distracted Id hit Taiwan.<br><br>And just as everyone was studying the new reality, as they surely will, and US is financially exhausted Id hit Japan.<br><br>Then Id create a single currency area and make it one of the 4 currencies that the UN is currently touting as an option.<br><br>There has been a massive anti-Japan campaign recently...<br><br>Hey, Id make sure it was an option at the very least! <p></p><i></i>

[slimmouse]

Well.<br><br> Youve gotta spend that useless paper (the dollar that you have acquired courtesy of your peoples labour ) on something.<br><br> What do the issuers of all that useless paper have to offer ?<br><br> Theyve gotta 'pay the bearer' somehow.<br><br> Enter GEC, Raytheon and the plethera of MI complex associated companies.<br><br> All circumstantial of course <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=slimmouse@rigorousintuition>slimmouse</A> at: 3/6/06 7:43 pm<br></i>

[Floyd Smoots]

WAL...cough...Cough...COUGH...MART, anyone??? I'm way past "Democracy-Lovers vs. Commie-Rats", but, once, Josef Stalin wrote, "We will sell the West the rope with which we will use to hang them.", or words very closely to that effect.<br><br>'Scuse me a sec here........MAL (cough, Cough, COUGH!!!) WART!!!! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START >: --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br> <p></p><i></i>

[slimmouse]

<br><br> Heres the deal as best, and as simple as I can see it.<br><br> China have been selling the USA cheap goods for long enough.<br><br> This has driven the US worker to breaking point. They simply cant compete. They arent used to working for a bowl of rice a day, nor are they, unlike the chinese, prepared to. <br><br> About the only thing the US has left to trade of any value to the chinese, who now sit there with Zillions of dollars to spend, is arms.<br><br> Who makes the best arms in the world ?<br><br> I think we know the answer to that one.<br><br> all circumstantial evidence of course. <p></p><i></i>

[Floyd Smoots]

slimmie, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", or Team Spirit, or Team SPLIT, to me, fellow freedom-lover. The Chinese military is probably fixing to kick some SERIOUS BUTT!!!<br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START >: --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br> <p></p><i></i>

[slimmouse]

<br> Have a look at what kissinger was doing what seems like a lifetime ago now.<br><br> He was fostering amicable relations with china.<br><br> It was he, and his minions, who for all the spin, got Taiwan evicted from the UN security council, in favour of.........<br><br>China.<br><br> If meanwhile , you look closely thru some of the archives, you will also see that our man Henry, was the guy who suggested around 1973, that we needed a huge hike in energy prices in order ( essentially) put the lid on the plebs, and keep us all busy working as opposed to making this world a better place for the majority.<br><br> Enter Yom Kippur ( 1973). A war, which as Havangilia has recently stated, the Israelis knew full well was going to happen, and did nothing to pre - empt.<br><br> Enter a 4 time hike in energy prices.<br><br> All circumstantial evidence of course.<br><br> on edit.<br><br> where was GHW posted to as ambassador way back when ?<br><br> Answers in a fortune cookie <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=slimmouse@rigorousintuition>slimmouse</A> at: 3/6/06 8:15 pm<br></i>

[Darklo]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Who makes the best arms in the world ?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Spot on, hadnt thought of that.<br><br>Youve just gotta love the US. Spend all their money on cheap shit from China, when they run out cash borrow all the money from China to buy even more cheap shit from China, then when that runs out start selling China weapons to keep the scheme going.<br><br>And if you think of this in the same terms as the petrodollar, then it doesnt really matter if they buy the military equipment from the US, as all military hardware is in dollars anyway. <p></p><i></i>

[slimmouse]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Youve just gotta love the US. Spend all their money on cheap shit from China, when they run out cash borrow all the money from China to buy even more cheap shit from China, then when that runs out start selling China weapons to keep the scheme going.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br> But never forget what this will mean for the <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>average </em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->American .<br><br> Kinda " youre either with us, or you flip burgers"<br><br> We live in interesting times. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=slimmouse@rigorousintuition>slimmouse</A> at: 3/6/06 8:33 pm<br></i>

[thumperton]

the bankers have built China from the ground up just like they have the Soviet Union. Does that mean, in the end, they are just a paper tiger? <p></p><i></i>

[Floyd Smoots]

slimmie, a gentleblogger never asks another gentleblogger their age, unless they volunteer the info, so I won't. I will just weigh in here on your last post, that at the age of fifty eight, I not only Lived through that period, I fervently HATED every Damned Lying Political Minute of it way back then.<br><br>Second, NAW, thumpie, thet thar tiger Is-real!!! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> From whence do you think St. John saw the coming-soon-to-a-middle east-near(or far from?)-you, the "two hundred thousand thousand (Two Hundred Million) horsemen", sent by the Kings of the East???<br><br>Our own CIA actually presented to Congress, circa 1997, a position paper averring that The People's Republic of China could, with call-up reserve units, field an army of two hundred million armed fighting men (and women)!!!!!!!! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START >: --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br> <p></p><i></i>

[thumperton]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Second, NAW, thumpie, thet thar tiger Is-real!!! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> From whence do you think St. John saw the coming-soon-to-a-middle east-near(or far from?)-you, the "two hundred thousand thousand (Two Hundred Million) horsemen", sent by the Kings of the East???<br><br>Our own CIA actually presented to Congress, circa 1997, a position paper averring that The People's Republic of China could, with call-up reserve units, field an army of two hundred million armed fighting men (and women)!!!!!!!! >: <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->Don't you remember how we kept the USSR afloat?<br><br>the name of the game is building the best enemy that money can buy. in the end, it justified massive military spending, and the arms industry got rich selling to both sides.<br><br>I also think that the 200 million man army can just as easily arise out of Eurasia or the middle east, if they think that the US is going to attack the whole entire region. I just don't see China having a big stake in this, unless of course the rumours about chinese troops south of the border prove true.<br><br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.smiliesftw.com/!/hsughrun.gif" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Floyd Smoots]

thumpie, stop with the wigglin' whoozits, go to the Parlour, and show & tell me how to post a danged pitchur, so I can throw some cats atcha!!!! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :\ --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/ohwell.gif ALT=":\"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>edit: Luv, Brother Floyd<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=floydsmoots>Floyd Smoots</A> at: 3/6/06 9:54 pm<br></i>