Recently, I was talking with an acquaintance of mine and somehow we got on the topic of China's military between sips of my Frappachino, while I was staring at my golf-cart out front of Starbucks, and pounding away on the key-board online. There seems to be a discrepancy in what is known in our population, what the news media states, and the reality of the next potential cold war exercise.
So, I asked a few simple questions; Do you believe China is wanting to build an aircraft carrier to project power? It appears they have an old one to look at to help them build one or they can retrofit the used one they have, although rumors claim it's going to be scrapped for steel. China looks to be training pilots to land on aircraft carriers too.
Indeed, J-11 Chinese Fighter Plane looks a lot like the Russian fighter they were supposed to build together - not that the newest Russian fifth generation fiasco, the T-50 isn't a knock-off of one of the JSF prototype version, but still, the game is being taken to a higher level, it's only a matter of time, will, and money - China has all that on their side - we see this in their space program too.
Further, I asked my acquaintance; what are your thoughts on the US selling C-17s to China, that's interesting, of course, we are selling 16 of them to India now at last count too. They'd both have bought A400Ms from the European Union anyway, or Mitsubishi's newest transport, so we may as well get the business, but it is an issue and shows the build-up in the region is not slowing down, but picking up - not to mention the insanity of build up in the Middle East.
And China is rapidly building more ships for its Navy too, and acquiring submarine technology from old retired Russian subs, along with whatever secret information it can steal here in the United States. But Russia giving or selling technology to China isn't the only challenge in the world. For instance, Britain and France sharing an aircraft carrier with standardized equipment - especially in light of Russia buying a Mistral Class warship from them? We know that France and German companies have sold hardware to Syria, Iraq, Iran, Algeria, Libya, and on and on.
It seems no one can or wants to keep military secrets, so we build it and they steal it. Meanwhile, it is the American Consumer who is funding China's military buildup, while here at home our government makes it nearly impossible to do business with all the over-regulation, taxation, and bureaucracy. Indeed, all this is our own doing. But if we don't maintain military superiority, it will be our future undoing. Please consider all that.
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