posted on Jul, 7 2007 @ 06:31 AM
"Si vis pacem para bellum" -Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus (390AD)
"If you seek peace, prepare for war". This has determined the arms policy of the strongest nations for centuries and looking at the nature of
humanity this should be the policy dictating any peace-looking nation. It is plain naive not to prepare yourself for a potential threat, which has
proven herself to repeatedly act for her own benefits with all means (even deceiving her own people with lies), defenseless country by defenseless
country in face of a superior army with superior technology despite their edge on quantity has fallen, in face of an army with superior technology
nothing can help you, no matter you have 1 m, 10m, 100m or 1000m man-sized army, this is proven fact for the past decades and centuries. Not to
mention that it is simply ridiculous to think the 1.3b Chinese population will all pick up a gun to invade others! Absurd thinking.
How did the Spaniards wipe out a whole empire with merely like less than 1% army size of that opponent? Superior technology and cunning strategies. It
is even said that if China face off with Taiwan, China will still have a hell of a hard time, and this is against a part of the nation with a pop of
like 1 city in the mainland! Because Taiwan currently has superior technology despite the numbers. Upgrading the inferior technology to not let your
only weapon, the Chinese nukes (the only thing stopping USA), become obsolete is nothing more than being not naive. Those percentages of the military
spending is highly interesting, even more interesting if you put the absolute figures next to it, then you will see how less China is spending
compared to USA and the history-proven-aggressive JAPAN (who btw don't teach the WW2 as it is, and gave it a very rosy colour!)
I can't blame ordinary Americans always looking for a scapegoat outside their borders. It seems like people need a common target to unite, American
politicians know this all too well, what better than an uprising Exotic huge relatively unknown communistic country far away from home to be the next
target if the people get bored hearing about terrorists? They know the America common people will never think further than what is being
propaganda'ed to them, and will eventually accept this new enemy.
And reading many of the posts over here, it simply confirms my findings that people judge before looking upon the facts by themselves first. Slave
labour? Dude, did you walk in the factories in China? Did you know that on a daily base here and there there is a strike going on? Did you know that
on a daily base here and there a legal dispute between employer and employee is being fought out in the Chinese courts? same # as in the Western
world.
People just don't know that they are not dealing with a communistic country in the form of the former bankrupted Soviet Union or the lunatic North
Korea, it is in fact already a peaceful Socialistic system with Chinese characteristics where all the Chinese people has for the first time in history
equal opportunities to make a better life, still a lot of developments going on and improvements needed both politically & economically, but
nevertheless going in the right direction. This huge civilization, not understood by many, came from a bloody history full of misery, only by '78
when Deng Xiaoping started the reforms China started giving Chinese people hope and for the first time in the 20th century Chinese society can
peacefully develop, '89 came too early, students acted irrational, the Chinese government in order to keep the country in track could have never
given in the demands of these unfortunate students, which in the later stage of the demonstrations many were already not students, and many did not
know what they were yelling for,unfortunately sometimes you have to sacrifice hundreds, if this in lights of and for the best of more than a billion
brothers & sisters, than so be it.
[edit on 7-7-2007 by IchiNiSan]