Condi: US Concerned With Chinese Military Buildup

[JABBS]

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“There are concerns about China’s military buildup,” Rice told a television interviewer. “It’s sometimes seemed outsized for China’s regional role.”

So should we add China to the list of countries that are doing something militarily that we don't approve of, but apparently can do little to stop?

[bahrbearian]

1. Hey Condi maybe you could threaten them by calling in their debt.

[951-Riverside]

2. ...I wonder how fast will the freepers surrender

...If it came to that.

[izzie]

3. I think they are trying to build up this women for something.

Maybe Vice-President?

[malaise]

4. Who told Condi that she's in charge of the world

China's military seems outsized for China's regional role? Ah shut the fugg up Condi. China owns you.

[EvangelOphileBlican]

5. The Chinese have what, a force of three million, and we have what,

our hands tied in Iraq.

[Roland99]

6. And just what the fuck is our "role"? Shouldn't it be just to protect us?

Not to invade every other fucking country on the planet who so much as looks at the US wrong???

[JABBS]

7. exactly

it's not manifest destiny. we can't just tell everyone what we want them to do, like we're running some giant Stratego board.

[Rex]

8. Outsized? You mean like our military Kinda Sleazy?

Bigger than all other countries combined? Sleazy, how much longer are you going to tow the line for war criminals? Pathetic little woman.

[Strelnikov_]

9. Then Why Are We Continuing To Fund Said Buildup?

In Jan of 2001 I am afaid we slipped into the bizarro universe.

[TexasLawyer]

10. too bad there's nothing we can do about it

military's busy, ...no money's left, ... government's distracted,... Americans are watching TV and playing video games,....

The Chinese own this country anyway, so it's all good.

Hao ji la!

[JABBS]

13. even if we could do something about it

is this how one proceeds?

is this the best we can do in terms of diplomacy? publicly calling out another country? shouldn't this sort of thing be done quietly? Isn't publicly calling out another country -- potentially humiliating the other country -- step 63 or so in the rules of diplomacy?

[shadowknows69]

11. We start acting like the conquering Mongols

and we wonder why people might be bolstering their militaries? Who could have forseen. A blind, dead man could.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. The "Yellow Peril" returns.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken

[bridgit]

14. she had better be concerned about all our jobs being sent over there...

sure they're building their military, and soon they'll be using the same excuse that we do = that they have to protect the foreign interests...what a duuph she is, she should be loosing sleep at night worrying the chinese don't call in all the markers :eyes:

there are fates worse than death, and 'condi' rice seems to be preparing this nation for none of them :thumbsdown:

[JABBS]

15. that's not part of her job, actually

I think we outsourced the job of worrying about outsourcing. some guy in bangalore is undertaking a five-year study for the bushies.

SARCASM

[bridgit]

16. she's not even doing the job she is supposed to be doing properly...

but i hear you on the rest ;)

[sendero]

17. This is sooo..... funny..

.... what did you numbnuts think China was going to do with all that "free trade" money you've been handing them like candy?

Sometimes I think our "leaders" are a bunch of goofballs.