How China's Military Views the United States

You are welcome to post any news article about China doing something positive for the world. I don't think it's been the U.S. that has turned China into an adversary. We basically built China into the industrial powerhouse that they are today, providing financing and technology in the 1990's. They could have continued on a path to being an economic world power and trusted trading partner. They have decided to use their great wealth to modernize their military and threaten their neighbors with it. They have unsettled scores they feel a need to address through intimidation and possibly warfare that are more important than providing a better life for their own citizens and making the world a better and more sustainable place for all of humanity.

Once again, I like the Chinese people. I have spent over half a year of my life working in China. I have some good friends there. I just don't think that the current administration in China can be trusted, and I think that Xi Jingping has put them on a trajectory towards a war that the U.S. will wind up being involved in. And with a country as large and populous as China, it is a good idea to keep up with what they are doing, and what they are thinking.

 

Biden is afraid to take military action on the balloon because it might fall on someone's house. It's over Montana, for crying out loud. I would be more worried it might take a month to find it. Grow a set and put a couple holes in it and bring it down and have a look at it, and process any people flying it.

Large Chinese reconnaissance balloon spotted over the US, officials say (yahoo.com)

Sounds like they did nothing. How do you stop a balloon from taking pictures? Fly a bigger balloon underneath it? Spray polyurethane foam on the underside of the balloon?

If the U.S. is defeated this easily by a balloon, imagine what actual military hardware might do.

 

The latest in China: towers of pigs. They are building 26-story high-rises for raising pigs. I don't know if containing animals in this kind of housing will prevent all of the contagious animal diseases that China seems to be plagued with.

China's Bid to Improve Food Production? Giant Towers of Pigs.

 

Chinese sub got caught tracking Britain's aircraft carrier, and was chased away. Bold move. You would think that Chinese subs would start small, tracking fishing boats and tugboats, and work their way up to an aircraft carrier. But NOOOOO . . .

HMS Queen Elizabeth chases away Chinese spy submarine

 

Another story about Britain and China: Britain has decided to stop foreign aid to China. Apparently they sent 50 million pounds there in 2021. Took them a while to realize that China was spending all its spare change on military platforms, like the submarine that was tracking the British aircraft carrier. And it took them a while to realize that China has an economy much larger than theirs (including a defense budget 4X bigger than the Brits), and the Chinese don't need the money.

No foreign aid should be sent to China, says development minister

 

Chinese Coast Guard ship attacks Philippines ship with a military-grade laser (temporarily blinding the crew) to defend China's ownership of Philippines waters. They were preventing the Philippines from re-supplying people on an island that China claims as their own. Add it to the nearly 200 diplomatic protests that the Philippines lodged against China last year.

Philippines says China ship used laser against coast guard

 

Apple is looking to move manufacturing out of China, and into Vietnam.

Apple wants to move its manufacturing out of China