Rumsfeld: China a Major Buyer of Weapons

[Kire]

Can you imagine a Chinese invasion in 2015? Soon, they aren't going to care how many press releases we send out.

Rumsfeld: China a Major Buyer of Weapons

By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 3,10:07 AM ET

SINGAPORE - China's military is growing as quickly as its economy and is a major buyer of weapons from Russia and other countries, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday.

Rumsfeld also said China's "less free" political system needs to open up along with its economy.

"It would be a shame for the people of China if their government did not provide the opportunities that freer economic and political systems permit," Rumsfeld told reporters traveling with him to Singapore for an Asian security conference.

Rumsfeld plans to meet with at least a half-dozen ministers from Asian countries at the conference, including key allies
South Korea and Japan. He said they will discuss issues such as terrorism, the shifting U.S. military presence in the region and
North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050603/ap_on_re_as/rumsfeld_asia_7

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. while we sleep china prepares

now this is a reality, we are going to enter, if not alraedy there, a cold war with China, whose navy is where the Soviet Navy was in the 1950s. Now do I think these idiots will know how to handle this?

Yeah right!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. "While we sleep"??? We're deliberately trying to provoke China....

...into a shooting war! This is a war that the NeoCon "experts" believe we can win at this point in time, rather than facing a vastly improved Chinese military in 10-15 years.

[bemildred]

6. Indeed. Stupid? Yes. But sleeping? No. nt

[Kire]

2. Rumsfeld Issues a Sharp Rebuke to China on Arms (NYT)

SINGAPORE, Saturday, June 4 - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, in an unusually blunt public critique of China, said Saturday that Beijing's military spending threatened the delicate security balance in Asia and called for an emphasis instead on political freedom and open markets.

More in LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1522996

[Kire]

3. China’s Victimization Syndrome

China’s Victimization Syndrome
Orville Schell


A contest for China’s soul is now underway in that giant country, pitting two powerful forces and two very different stances toward the outside world against each other. The outcome will have a major impact on whether China succeeds in becoming a nation capable of having truly constructive and durable relations with the outside world.

On one hand, China’s economic revolution has helped position it in the world as a confident powerhouse of trade, a more responsible global powerbroker, and even as a reassuring military presence. On the other hand, China remains trapped by a past and a mindset steeped in a sense of victimization, which tempts it to export blame for internal problems.

The main question is whether China can escape the pull of this old psychological syndrome – which kept it preoccupied throughout the twentieth century with debilitating sentiments of weakness, insecurity, and humiliation – and allow itself to be guided by a new outlook on the world, and even on old enemies.

The anti-Japanese demonstrations are a symptom of the old syndrome, fueled by grievances born at a time when China was, indeed, aggrieved and humiliated. With China’s growing economic clout, rising standard of living, and increasingly respected place in the world, one would hope that the Chinese and their leaders would find a way to let go of the dead. Yet, even as the luster of the “China miracle” dazzles the world, the Chinese seem loath leave behind their dark feelings of victimization.

More: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/schell10

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. How much you want to bet that this media outlet has roots in the old....

...anti-communist newspapers/magazines published during the Cold War with US financial backing and editorial direction?

This sounds exactly like the propaganda we directed toward the old Soviet Union where we attempted to highlight internal divisions.

[Kire]

7. The Followup to Beijing

The Followup to Beijing

In London today the International Olympic committee issued its preliminary reports on the handful of cities vying for the right to host the 2012 Olympic Games. The three leading candidates are New York, London and Paris, but not in that order. The preliminary reports seemed to confirm what Olympics insiders have been saying for two years now-- that Paris is a virtual shoo-in to host the Games and become the first city to do so three times. The official IOC vote will take place July 6 in Singapore.

Any chance New York might have had of attracting the Olympics would seem to have taken a bat this morning when the ranking member of the New York State Legislature demurred on support for the West Side stadium proposal, calling it "premature". But even with the new stadium, New York faced an uphill fight.

There is enormous sentiment in favor of Paris, the home of modern Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin, to take its rightful place as the first three-time host. There is some resistance to bringing the Games back to the United States so soon after the poorly-reviewed Summer Games of Atlanta 1996 and the scandal-ravaged Salt Lake City experience of 2002. And there is built-in resentment against both London and New York on the part of nations angered by the War in Iraq. It will be Paris, and still two major continents-- Africa and South America, will never have hosted the Games. Not to mention, of course, the Middle East, where Teheran continues to try to martial ammunition for a bid, and where, in theory, oil money can quickly conquer any facilities problems.

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/jim-lampley/the-followup-to-beijing_2207.html