How China's Military Views the United States

chemgator · May 4, 2024

duggers_dad said: ↑

McCarthyite and a flag-wrapper.
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Relax, Lee Harvey. I won't turn you into the FBI (again).

tampagtr · May 4, 2024

I confess, I was totally ignorant of the Chinese May Fourth movement, which has nothing to do with George Lucas. Started in 1919. Student led intellectual patriotism, best I can tell on first read. Adam Tooze has more

Yen-dollar volatility, soft commodity collapse & China's May 4th movement at 105.

duggers_dad · May 6, 2024

We can’t beat China. Best be friends …

https://fb.watch/rUU51ghlV1/

GatorFanCF · May 6, 2024

duggers_dad said: ↑

We can’t beat China. Best be friends …

https://fb.watch/rUU51ghlV1/
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We can't beat China because some woman found a different pair of panties in her bed? Now, I'm really confused.

tampagtr · May 7, 2024

Great listen (podcast episode). Hoping the e-book will come to library or hoopla. Much to think about

duggers_dad · May 8, 2024

Heads explode …

duggers_dad · May 9, 2024

The U.S. awfully bellicose for a country with a military is falling apart …

America’s security and prosperity is at high risk today, largely because of bad policies backed up by too weak armed forces. Consider our U.S. maritime complex. Decades of neglect and inadequate investment have left our shipping, shipbuilding, Navy, merchant marines, ports, and Coast Guard woefully behind the times. The Secretary of the Navy and a growing group in Congress are sounding the alarm, drawing attention to the plight of our weakened maritime sector.

https://realclearwire.com/articles/..._starts_with_a_maritime_overhaul_1029809.html

oragator1 · May 9, 2024

https://www.reuters.com/business/us...rategic-sectors-bloomberg-reports-2024-05-10/

us is going to impose some additional sanctions.

chemgator · May 11, 2024

Argentina throws the BRICs out of the window, humiliating Chairman Xi and Comrade Putin. No dictatorship for you!

Argentina’s return to the West is a pivotal moment in world geopolitics

Argentina’s repudiation of the Brics is more than a minor earthquake in global diplomacy. It has broken the spell of an ever-widening bloc of states pitted against the Western liberal order.

Momentum has been all one way since the original quartet of Brazil, Russia, India and China launched the bloc in 2009, later expanded to South Africa, and then Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia and the Emirates at the start of this year.

Finally, a country from the Global South – a tortuous ideological construction – has pulled back from a grouping that is increasingly a front for Xi Jinping’s expansionist China, and for the creation of a Chinese-run financial system aimed at displacing the Bretton Woods institutions.

A defector has repositioned itself as a stalwart member of the liberal democracies and the US military alliance, without ifs or buts, as a matter of moral and philosophical preference, and at some risk to its immediate economic interests.
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chemgator · May 11, 2024

An expert claims that China's economy is headed for a "dead end" and says that Beijing will not do anything to stop it. They refuse to loosen government controls over industry, and believe that the answer is to dump goods on the world market for dirt cheap prices. Forecast: repression.

China’s economy is headed for a ‘dead-end,’ and Beijing won’t do anything to stop it, scholar says

"Years of erratic and irresponsible policies, excessive Communist Party control and undelivered promises of reform have created a dead-end Chinese economy of weak domestic consumer demand and slowing growth," she wrote. "The only way that China’s leaders can see to pull themselves out of this hole is to fall back on pumping out exports."

The result will be more tension with China's trade partners as cheap manufactured goods continue to flood markets, while the Chinese people will turn gloomier, causing the government to get more repressive, Stevenson-Yang predicted.

The root cause of China's economic problems is the Communist Party's excessive control, which isn't going away, while its strategies that focus on adding more industrial capacity are counterproductive, she said.

Most economists have recommended that Chinese leaders loosen their grip on the private sector and promote more consumption, which would entail reforming the government—"and that is unacceptable," she added.
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citygator · May 12, 2024

China at risk of deflating. Should get their export business back on track though but the US will enjoy cheaper prices and better profits.

Separately I bet they regret unwinding the US dollar holdings so aggressively.

The Rocket Fuel Behind China Shock 2.0: Weak Currency, Deflation

chemgator · May 16, 2024

China is using a coercion campaign against Taiwan, trying to intimidate the small island into trading political concessions for peace, and slowly taking the country over that way.

The US is worried about an invasion, but China could take control of Taiwan without firing a shot, war experts warn

With the US and its allies focused on what a Chinese invasion of Taiwan could look like, and how American forces could defend Taiwan if necessary, they're missing a glaring alternative strategy China could employ to capture Taiwan, a new report argues.

Defense experts say that an aggressive Chinese coercion campaign, short of war but still threatening, is more likely than a full-scale invasion and the US needs to prepare for such an event.

A new report co-authored by war experts from the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War explores a scenario where China undergoes a "coercion campaign that remains far short of invasion but nevertheless brings Taiwan under Beijing's control," identifying such an event as a "significant gap in US strategic thought."

Elements of such a campaign are already underway and include China's military exercises both in the Taiwan Strait and around the island, which are growing in scale and raising worries about escalation. Economic and diplomatic pressure is notable, and Chinese misinformation operations and the potential to slowly set up a blockade of Taiwan are also concerns.
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chemgator · May 18, 2024

China is spending more on food, sport, and leisure (low cost items), and less on everything else. Their property crisis continues to get worse.

Chinese shoppers are buying less than they used to — but they're spending on experiences

Retail sales, however, rose 2.3% from a year ago, slowing from a 3.1% increase in March and below the 3.8% forecast from economists polled by Reuters — an indication that consumers are holding back.

Lynn Song, the chief economist for the Greater China region at the Dutch bank ING, wrote in a note on Friday that a closer look at China's retail-sales data showed the largest drag was from car sales, which fell 5.6% from a year ago,

"The data may add fuel to the fire for the critics of China's overcapacity in this sector," Song added, alluding to the West's criticism of China's industrial overproduction, particularly in green-energy products such as electric vehicles.
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Property investment fell 9.8% in the first four months of the year from a year ago. That's worse than the 9.5% decline recorded in the first three months of the year.
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duggers_dad · May 20, 2024

I trust we’re doing all we can to keep this from China …

chemgator · May 23, 2024

If China's thinking about invading Taiwan to get their hands on working chipmaking equipment, they may be wasting their time. Apparently, the Taiwanese have installed a "kill switch" on the machines that can disable the machines remotely.

The world's top chipmakers can flip a 'kill switch' should China invade Taiwan, Bloomberg reports

Two of the world's most important chip companies can flip a "kill switch" remotely on their most advanced chipmaking machines should China invade Taiwan, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The Netherlands' ASML — Europe's top tech company by market value — supplies advanced machines to chipmaking companies. They include Taiwan's TSMC, which produces, by some estimates, 90% of the world's most advanced processor chips.

The news of a forced shutdown, or a "kill switch," on ASML's chipmaking gear comes amid intensifying rivalry between Washington and Beijing and mounting concerns over a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory.

Taiwan is the world's epicenter for semiconductor chips, the ubiquitous parts that are used in products from data centers to smartphones. A war in the region would have major consequences for the global economy.
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chemgator · May 26, 2024

Talk about a completely inadequate navy! China apparently has little or nothing in the way of amphibious ships to invade Taiwan. It looks like they are planning to maximize the carnage (of Chinese soldiers, not Taiwanese) by bringing troops ashore with ferries! Looks like having the world's best destroyers isn't doing China much good if they have to invade with tin bathtubs. The Chinese military may be even dumber than we thought it was, if that's possible. China is counting on eliminating all resistance at the coast before they send in the ferries/floating coffins.

China preparing armada of ferries to invade Taiwan

China is preparing an armada of ferries and civilian vessels to invade Taiwan as Beijing steps up its pressure campaign against the island nation.

While the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) lacks the numbers of amphibious landing craft needed to stage the sort of invasion seen during the D-Day landings, it could bridge the gap with civilian vessels, including dozens of gigantic roll-on, roll-off ferries that can each carry hundreds of armoured vehicles.

“Amphibious landings under fire are among the most difficult of military manoeuvres,” said Ray Powell, the director of SeaLight, a Stanford University project focused on grey zone activities in the South China Sea.

Civilian ferries “would normally be poor choices for such a mission” but could be used to transport troops en masse across the Taiwan strait after its coastal defences are destroyed, or to overwhelm the island’s military “with sheer mass,” he said.
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NavyGator93 · May 26, 2024

I see the putin pumpers are now spamming this thread. Good to see people ignore him here too. What a maroon.

tampagtr · May 26, 2024

If anyone wants to know why China is pro-Trump

NavyGator93 · May 27, 2024

tampagtr said: ↑

If anyone wants to know why China is pro-Trump

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Trump and family love them some Chinese money.

Jared Kushner's family criticised for touting cash-for-visas scheme in China

tampagtr · May 27, 2024

NavyGator93 said: ↑

Trump and family love them some Chinese money.

Jared Kushner's family criticised for touting cash-for-visas scheme in China
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And trademarks
China grants 18 trademarks in 2 months to Trump, daughter

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