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2020-04-05 China-Japan-Koreas

China Plans to Win The Pandemic World War

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Thank you, Alaska Paul.

First order of business: stop crippling ourselves. This paragraph crystallizes the madness of our 30-year policy that must end, immediately:

... China is only strong today because the West allowed it grow economically many fold over the past forty years, due to our short-sighted stupidity and our lust for ever-cheaper consumer goods, and even for cheaper medical supplies.

Sens. Hawley (R-MO) and Cotton (R-AR) have the right idea. First things first: detach ourselves from China as completely and as rapidly as we possibly can. Do this first and new options will appear -- and all the follow-on steps will be immeasurably easier.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-05 00:59|| 2020-04-05 00:59|| Front Page Top

#2 We dismiss Brachen's essay and analysis at our own peril.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-05 01:20|| 2020-04-05 01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Very disturbing language out of the Mao Stricken provinces. Learn Cantoneese.

Curse China.

Posted by newc 2020-04-05 01:56|| 2020-04-05 01:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Very scary. Except
(a) China doesn't have a fraction of carrying capacity to transport 10 million men.
(b) These 10 or 30 million men are not soldiers.
Training 10 million soldiers and providing officers & noncomps to lead them - let me guess, the author is not a veteran.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-05 03:12|| 2020-04-05 03:12|| Front Page Top

#5 ^"noncomps" ---> "noncoms"

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-05 03:13|| 2020-04-05 03:13|| Front Page Top

#6 ^^Who the f*ck told the author that current day Chinese youths will go along?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-05 03:14|| 2020-04-05 03:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Hooking these de facto colonies on Chinese capital - state-owed and private debt, along with major asset purchases by the Chinese at steep discounts - would be more effective than military invasion. This is more or less what happened to Italy.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-05 04:27|| 2020-04-05 04:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Where does he get the proof of his conspiracy theories? This is just a man ranting about his fears. "ChiCom"? Seriously? Who talks like that?

Posted by Chitle Thromose5239 2020-04-05 04:43|| 2020-04-05 04:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Grom, do you not know who Matt Bracken is?

Posted by SR-71 2020-04-05 05:37|| 2020-04-05 05:37|| Front Page Top

#10 ^A former Seal, so what? If he thinks that China can train 10 million men as soldiers - and provide than with officers & noncoms, or transport them overseas, he's an asshole.

p.s. Why don't I ever see Israeli alumni of Sayeret Matkal or Marine Commando (or, for that matter, non Seal USA special forces) macho-ing on Internet?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-05 06:08|| 2020-04-05 06:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Ref #8: Where does he get the proof of his conspiracy theories?

I believe the word you were looking for may have been evidence as opposed to "proof." Evidence of this theory abounds and appears to be growing day-by-day. Again, this is a theory. Whatever the outcome, Brachen's theory will likely be war gamed long after we are all gone.

By the way, theories generate thought, dialogue, white papers, etc. Actual facts have been stumbled upon in such processes.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-05 07:12|| 2020-04-05 07:12|| Front Page Top

#12 I've been saying this for a long time.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-05 17:49|| 2020-04-05 17:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Boycott their products too.

BOYCOTT CHINA!!!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-05 17:51|| 2020-04-05 17:51|| Front Page Top

#14 BOYCOTT CHINA!!!

Yeah, it's paper plates on the dinner table from here on out.

Posted by SteveS 2020-04-05 18:20|| 2020-04-05 18:20|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ Well, you'll save money on electricity to run your dishwasher.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-05 18:28|| 2020-04-05 18:28|| Front Page Top

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