How China's Military Views the United States

Presumably, she is talking about the threat to our supply of advanced computer chips coming from Taiwan.

 

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She may also consider U.S. aircraft carriers to be part of the homeland. China has certainly threatened our carriers in a bid to keep them out of the western Pacific.

 

Chinese journalist compares China's economic problems to the U.S.'s Great Depression, and gets banned from social media.

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Chinese industrial profits take a tumble, dropping 19% since last year.

China's industrial profits tumble, deepening economic gloom

 

China has a new counter-espionage law that targets western companies in China, but is written so vaguely that western companies don't know what it could mean. Basically, many normal business activities could be labeled espionage against China and get the western employees in hot water. The law also indicates that Chinese employees of western firms in China could be compelled to spy on the rest of the company.

My guess is that western firms will no longer want to do business in China. What a nightmare (for both China and western businesses that choose to continue doing business in China). Not a good idea to piss off your biggest customers.

US warns firms over new Chinese 'counter-espionage' law

 

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Obviously, the people at Maxwell AFB think this guy is credible. Who am I to argue with Maxwell AFB?

Sometimes the low-level people are more honest than higher-level people, especially in a communist society where there is much to lose by saying something the big bosses might find unfavorable. Of course in the military, the lower level people are more likely to be risking their lives if a weapons system doesn't work. Lower level people are less concerned with politics and impressing the enemy, and more willing to draw attention to a problem to get it fixed. Much like the U.S. sub commander in WWII that announced over the open airwaves that U.S. torpedoes don't work after launching several at a ship and hearing only a clang on impact--he was mostly concerned with his own survival at the moment. That broadcast alerted Japan to not be very concerned with the U.S. submarine threat. His bosses got him in big trouble, but they also fixed the problem.

And the name "Little Flying Pig" in Chinese is not as bizarre-sounding as it is in the U.S. The Chinese use animal metaphors in their everyday speech all the time. Sounds to me like he might be a military pilot, and he might know what he's talking about.

 

It's not so much that "professionals" at the Pentagon are not being gullible. It's more likely that they are predicting and preparing for the worst case scenario, whatever that might be. Their job is to ask for as much money as they can for defense spending, and do (and say) what it takes to justify that spending. Even if they know there is a significant chance that the basis of their information is incorrect. A perfect example of this is the Russian military. The Pentagon WAY over-estimated the capabilities of Russia's ground forces (and did it for years). No question about it. Ukraine just revealed the truth for all to see.

You seem to have a bad habit of taking the word of the highest ranking/most official sounding person/corporation on any subject, and discounting everything everyone else has to say. This is the second time you've done it on this thread. You said that China's economy is doing great because Goldman Sachs says so. Almost everyone else says otherwise, including the people of China.

 

China retaliates against the West in the computer chip wars: they are restricting sales of gallium and germanium, two important metals in the manufacture of advanced chips. Gallium currently costs $550/lb and germanium costs about $2700/lb.

China Retaliates: Restricts Vital Chipmaking Materials Gallium and Germanium

 

China almost doubles its imports of coal in the first five months of the year compared to last year. They imported 182 million tons of coal. So much for their green energy programs. China is afraid of a summer with power blackouts caused by additional air conditioning usage.

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