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Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.
The calls for broad retaliation over the planned U.S. weapons sales to the disputed island came from officers at China's National Defence University and Academy of Military Sciences, interviewed by Outlook Weekly
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) plays no role in setting policy for China's foreign exchange holdings. Officials in charge of that area have given no sign of any moves to sell U.S. Treasury bonds over the weapons sales, a move that could alarm markets and damage the value of China's own holdings.
While far from representing fixed government policy, the open demands for retaliation by the PLA officers underscored the domestic pressures on Beijing to deliver on its threats to punish the Obama administration over the arms sales.
"Our retaliation should not be restricted to merely military matters, and we should adopt a strategic package of counter-punches covering politics, military affairs, diplomacy and economics to treat both the symptoms and root cause of this disease," said Luo Yuan, a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences.
"Just like two people rowing a boat, if the United States first throws the strokes into chaos, then so must we."
Luo said Beijing could "attack by oblique means and stealthy feints" to make its point in Washington.
"For example, we could sanction them using economic means, such as dumping some U.S. government bonds," Luo said.
Originally posted by Emerald The Paradigm
reply to post by Common Good
The Chinese own America.
They are becoming the second largest economy and exporter of the world.
Originally posted by liveandletlive
The people of the U.S. better wake up and realize that China isn’t a laughing matter. How much would it cost for them to wage war against us vs. losing a couple hundred billion by tanking the U.S. economy and thereby destroying the U.S. without a shot fired? Don’t think it would could, really? Are you sure.
[edit on 9-2-2010 by liveandletlive]
Originally posted by crisko
Originally posted by Emerald The Paradigm
reply to post by Common Good
The Chinese own America.
They are becoming the second largest economy and exporter of the world.
The Chinese Economy is still smaller than that of California. The Chinese have the fastest growing economy and if it can stay that way for another 10 - 20 years then yes, they will rival that of the U.S.
But as of now, they are by no means the largest economy. You are being a bit alarmist.
Originally posted by yiersan
seems like China is becoming a hot topic in ATS, and more often sources used without proper due diligence to verify if the article is bogus or not.
anyhow, as someone said before, it is so tempting for a failing president and economic system to lay the blame to others, and China is a good popularized scapegoat for all your misery.... *sigh* whatever it takes to get re-elected.....
Originally posted by Subjective Truth
The Chinese say alot of things but in reality they have nothing and the future will only see them decline as we stop buying there crap. We bent them over and had them grab there ankles and gave it to them over and over again they paid for our wars we are battle hardened and they paid for it bring it China. You can be one of the few counties that paid for there own downfall.
[edit on 9-2-2010 by Subjective Truth]