Why is China arming itself to the teeth and how is America meeting the challenge?

Question

Someone with knowledge in these affairs would be appreciated. But feel free to comment anyhow

Answer 1

China is taking over the world in all kinds of ways!

Answer 2

If China is arming to the teeth......:

1. why did they reduce their military by 1 million a year ago?

2. why are they doing much needed modernization, but not expansion?

3. Why did they pledge to the world and its people they will not attack a soverign country? A pledge the USA refuses to make.

4. Why did they also say they believe in a countries right to self determination?

5. Why was the last invasion of a soverign country, back in the late 70's (Vietnam) which was the result of ongoing border problems and repeated warnings from Beijing, result in a war that lasted a month and when China was finished they got out?

6. Why would you say such a thing while not looking at history and seeing that China is not an imperialistic country?

7. According to a congressional study done in 2005, the USA supplies 36% of the worlds arms. Some independent studies put that figure as high as 60%. Whereas in the same congressional study, China represents only 3%.

Go too:
http://www.china.org.cn
Look up their white papers on their military and government. Learn from the source, instead of places that have an obvious agenda to put forward.

When it comes to gun running, accusations, conflict and war, follow the money first.

Peace

Jim

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Answer 3

China is not "arming itself to the teeth".

Because its economy is growing so quickly it LOOKS like China is spending a lot on its military.

China's entire GDP is increasing 10-12% per year, so is its military spending.

The Pentagon and the CIA have not accused the Chinese of anything...yet.

Comparisons that cite the US as half the military budget of the world fail to note that American sodliers are the highest paid based on the value of American Currency. A GI making 25k a year is making more than a Chinese general does, so the numbers are skewed. You also have to compare value for expenditure, and by this measure, China is gaining, but not that quickly.

The CIA merely projects that as China's economy grows, it will begin spending the kind of money the US does within 20-30 years. This is a long term strategic "threat", but not an imminent one.

These men are paid to plan for the worst case scenarios.

It should be noted China has no history of military adventurism beyond its traditional borders. The irony is that the more American politicians and media talk about the "Chinese threat", the more China becomes worried about the threat from America!

You could end up breeding an enemy where there was not one before.

This does not excuse China for human rights violations, nor does it mean that we should discount China as a future threat to western hegemony, but they hold a lot of US government bonds(billions to a trilliondollars) that would be worthless to them should they ever find themselves at war, and the US government deceides to default.

In other words, China has no long term strategic interest in coming into conflict with the US.

China has an aging population problem similar to the one facing North America. They are becoming fat like North Americans. Middle class children are being educated in English and more will immigrate as the full effects of the one child policy forces chinese men to seek brides and lives abroad.

Current Chinese economic growth will only last for another 10 years until it slows to western rates

Over 100 million chinese in the western provinces are Muslim and the Chinese government has provided vital intelligence to the US fighting al Queda on its borders.

China has no plans to build an aircraft carrier fleet capable of operations off the coast of California or North Carolina. American ability to project military force is expected to remain unmatched for decades.

However the Chinese military budget also includes their space program, and America should be worried about losing its superiority there.

Bottom line is that China could never win either a conventional or a nuclear war with the US as the US could not truly "defeat" China (or the Russians) without Mutually Assured Destruction.

As long as neither side does anything stupid, the world will be just fine.

Answer 4

America can't meet the challenge in a conventional way. China has an Army of 6 million, and the largest population on earth, best just keep buying their crap toys.

Answer 5

China has record military spending because when it has weakened the World economically it needs the arms to take control and maintain a Worldwide Chinese regime.

America is meeting the challenge by buying huge amounts of Chinese products so China has the cash to fund its aims.

Answer 6

China is a nuclear power.But it has no delivery system to put a bomb in USA.It is at present not a military threat to USA.As part of its military strategy USA is entering in to important agreements with China's neighbour ,India so that there is an encircling effect on China.
China at present is more considering fast economic development.This will have adverse impact on USA.What US should be afraid of is the fast development of China.It is producing cheap goods and it has replaced US and Western manufactured items from Asian and African markets.Japan,Korea ,India andChina together will capture 60 percent of international trade by 2011.US and West at present are high cost economies,unless they take appropriate economic reforms ,their economies will suffer.

Answer 7

The US spends more on arms and military than the whole rest of the world combined. We spend sixteen times as much as all the countries combined who could be considered enemies or even adversaries--including China. Yet NONE of our politicians, of EITHER party seem to think this is enough. All the candidates this year seem to want to outdo each other on increasing military spending.

Perhaps China is spending money to develop weapons that they can sell all over the world, like we do. Weapons are our biggest manufactured export, you know! Maybe China is just trying to horn in on that very lucrative business.

Maybe they have reason to believe that we have some imperialistic designs on them, that after we get tired of killing people in the Middle East we'll come after them, make -them- the Evil Empire. Maybe they see the whole rest of the world getting ready to gang up against us and they just want to be on the winning side.

Maybe a better question to ask is why WE are armed to the teeth, why we have been on a constant war footing since WWII, and why we've gone deeply into debt to buy huge, elaborate weapons systems designed for a cold war that ended 20 years ago and totally useless in the kind of asymmetric guerrilla wars we will be fighting in this century.

If China wanted to defeat the US, they wouldn't have to attack us. All they'd have to do is stop lending us any more money. We need to constantly borrow money just to keep up the interest payments on the money we already owe. If we suddenly couldn't borrow more, our dollar would go down to about 5 cents and we'd all turn communist! 8^)

Answer 8

Well lets see I read here That America did nothing during WW2 We can't win a war We are in our downfall And now y'all want to know what we are going to do Well y'all were all over the place over there maybe you should take care of it! God I hope they don't remember the signs " no Chinese or dogs" Don't talk of opium

Answer 9

China is building arms for the coming conflict. The US response is to send them as much cash and business as we possibly can.

Answer 10

What channel are you watching that tells you China is arming to the teeth?


Must be the same one that says Elvis was spotted in Piccadilly Circus.


Time to turn the channel.


g-day!