The RAND report about China's military is an interesting read. Between RAND and other reports of the subject several points are crystal clear.
1. China is engaged in one of the largest military buildups the world has ever seen.
2. The Chinese military is rapidly approaching that of most western nations. This is partially due to companies such as Garman who sell GPS systems to China, who in turn use them as navigation and weapons delivery aids. They also use some of the some machinery that was used to build the B-1 to build their fighters, including a 5 head CAD controlled milling machine that was considered a "restricted" export item that needed approval for sale to China. This was provided by the office of the President of the US (Bill Clinton).
3. The Chinese are already engaged in open economic warfare aginst the entire world. This is directed mainly at the US, but the Chinese feel no qualms about unlicensed production of any product, from anyone.
4. The Chinese are buying comercial airliners hand over fist. It is presumed by the epeople who know about these things, that they are persuing the Soviet model of Military Air Transport, and plan to use this fleet of "Comercial" aircraft as "Military" aircraft to project power when the time comes.
5. The Chinese have secured stratigic assests assets around the world. The Chinese control the ports at either end of the Panama Canal, and have placed high power Radar picket stations around the world (Tarawa is one of the places) among other moves.
6. The Chinese are actively engaged in proxy wars.
7. Either Directly, or through proxies such as North Korea, and Iran, they supply weapons, support, and technology to any nation that is against the west. At the time of the US-led invasion of Iraq, China was busy building Saddam a hardened, fiber optic command and control apparatus. And if you wish to go back to the Sudan, Chinese MiG's flown by Chinese trained pilots happily drop bombs (using Garman's gear for targeting) on Christian refugee camps.
This information is not secret squirrel stuff. It's all been published. The problem is that it's just not sexy enough to make the front page. You have to look a little deeper in the paper, read PM or PS, or read a trade journal now and then.
The only check to this program at this point is the quiet civil war happening in China. "Civil War?" you say. Again all the info is out there, if you bother to actually read something beyond the New York Times or your local rag. Go to the library and start reading things like "The Economist", or some other trade journals.
Wake up sheeple, there are a whole lot of things going on that you need to know about.
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