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2017-10-21 China-Japan-Koreas

Xi Jinping: China to build world-class armed forces by mid-21st century

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Posted by badanov 2017-10-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Didn't anybody foresee this when we started exporting jobs to them and importing all their plastic crap?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-10-21 11:07|| 2017-10-21 11:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Because they didn;t care for a bunch of 'nobodies' with no money. They catered to the big corporations and the money they donated. They forgot where the money came from in the first place.

They took the short view, and never looked at the long view.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-10-21 11:57|| 2017-10-21 11:57|| Front Page Top

#3 They took the short view, and never looked at the long view.

I keep seeing this said over and over and I'm not sure that is really all that wise.

Yes in some cases where short is today and long is next year, fine. But the problem is that it is based on hubris that you can know what the long view is.

If you only see the forest you wind up eating a lot of bark as you bounce from tree to tree.

Posted by AlanC 2017-10-21 12:37|| 2017-10-21 12:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Hope they get that far.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-10-21 14:06|| 2017-10-21 14:06|| Front Page Top

#5 In my mind at some point they will want to test all these new toys against someone. In 2025? The Norks if they survive Trump? Vietnam? India? Anyone?

Raw resources - Siberia

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-10-21 14:12|| 2017-10-21 14:12|| Front Page Top

#6 That's why Russians always talk about using nukes as needed - they don't mean Baltics, P2k

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-21 14:49|| 2017-10-21 14:49|| Front Page Top

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