The 'Chinese military buildup' reports are old & staged to discredit China

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and isolate them and their vote in advance of the Security Council action against Iran that the Bush regime has been pushing for and expects as early as June. The weapons systems the Pentagon and US analysts are citing are no secret and have been under development for years. The level and intensity of our government's manipulation is astounding, and should give pause to those who continue to let the Bush regime set the agenda at the U.N.

This is nothing but a Pentagon production which FOX News has been broadcasting for two days like there's some new threat. All of this plays right into the PNAC world domination scheme which can be used to justify their planned missile defense boondoggles they want to spread around Eastern Europe. And, it meshes with their fear campaign which gives Bush his only relevance as our chimp commander and allows him to continue to brandish the spectre of national security as he subverts our constitution and our laws.

Be very afraid, of the Bush regime and their destablizing propaganda. Do they want a new cold war? I think so. The idiots see a short term plus for their agenda to isolate Iran and those who would trade with them. Negroponte has cited the economic relationships of China and Russia as undermining U.S. security. The Bush regime's main gripe is about the oil deals that China and Russia are engaged in with Iran.

Everything that follows is a means to undermine those relationships. China is on their agenda for today, next week Venezuela, Russia, Pakistan (who opposes military force against Iran), and whoever else dares to stand in the way of their manufactured 'crisis' with Iran.

Here's a report from today:


China rebuffs Pentagon’s ‘Cold War thinking’

May 25 2006
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/5b3afcaa-ebdc-11da-b3e2-0000779e2340.html

China on Thursday sharply condemned a report by the Pentagon on its military development that called on Beijing to be more transparent about defence spending and highlighted the modernisation of Chinese nuclear forces.

The Pentagon said US analysts had been surprised at the “pace and scope” of China’s nuclear strategic forces modernisation and that its general military expansion could alter “regional military balances”.

“The US defence ministry report embraces Cold War thinking, exaggerates China’s military strength and expenditure for ulterior motives, and persists in promoting the ‘China Threat Theory’,” the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement.

The report said recent Chinese statements - included the comments of a Chinese general last year - suggested Beijing’s policy of “no first use” of nuclear weapons might be “be under discussion”.

However, it was unclear what aspects of Beijing’s development of its nuclear missile forces had surprised US analysts. The report merely cited information about the introduction of new weapons such as the solid-fuelled, road-mobile DF-31 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which has been under development for decades.

full report: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/5b3afcaa-ebdc-11da-b3e2-0000779e2340.html

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1. If you check not Pentagon sources

you will find the Chinese build is quite real. Also Do not forget their expressed willingness to use force over Taiwan and several contested archipelagos

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2. this is a FOX News story that appeared on this site and elsewhere

in the past few days, out of the blue, with no visible substance outside of "questions' about, and "estimates" of China's military intentions.

There's a floating 'report' of some Chinese General who was said to want to 'discuss' first strike nukes? We'd have to be fucking idiots to buy that load of crap.

China gives their figure for their military budget, but the U.S. SAYS the figure is PROBABLY three times higher. WHAT CREDIBILITY DOES THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S WORD CARRY THESE DAYS? ZERO!

Why put this out now? Iran. That's the overriding obsession of the Bush regime these days. Every effort of their foreign policy, including decisions on whether to exit Iraq or stay, is determined by how it will help further their aggression against Iran.

Of course, the struggle surrounding Iran is about oil; our dependent needs, and about the other countries who benefit from Iran's oil.

The most revealing argument that the Bush administration has made against Iran is their reference to Iran's oil and the influence Iran gains by trading with regional actors like Russia, Pakistan and China. Negroponte said in a Feb.2 Senate Intelligence committee hearing that a combination of rising demand for energy and instability in oil-producing regions is increasing the geopolitical leverage of key producing states.

"Record oil revenues and diversification of its trading partners are further strengthening the Tehran government." Negroponte warned.

Oil was also on Negroponte's mind as he blasted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for his increasing relationship with Iran. Chavez "is seeking closer economic, military and diplomatic ties with Iran and North Korea," he said. Negroponte worried aloud in his statement that Chavez is looking to dump the U.S. as an oil trading partner in favor of customers like Russia and China. Although the U.S. presently gets about 60% of Venezuela's oil exports, Venezuela reportedly plans to double their exports to China by the end of the year.

Venezuela is next.

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3. Pakistan and China discuss Iran nuclear issue

Thursday, May 25, 2006

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China on Wednesday stressed Iran’s rights and obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) regime and expressed the need to resolve the issue diplomatically.

Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri met the foreign ministers of China, Korea and Thailand on the sidelines of 5th Asian Cooperation Dialogue meeting in Doha. The Pakistani and Chinese foreign ministers discussed bilateral and international issues of mutual interest.

Both ministers felt that any option other than diplomacy on the Iranian nuclear issue would be disastrous for regional security and international peace. They said that diplomacy would help evolve a solution that would meet the international community’s concerns and allow Iran its rights under the NPT. They hoped that a peaceful way to resolve the matter would be found out in the coming days.

http://www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/May06/25/08.htm