Re: China's War Machine

From: Les Cargill (lcargill_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 07/05/04 

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 11:56:56 -0400

Volker Hetzer wrote:
> "Johnny Marcos" <johnny5@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Xns951AB54579FC3Johnny5yahoocom@65.32.1.6...
>
>>I just watched on CSPAN that china's GDP has grown about 8.7% since 1997
>>- their military economy has grown 16% since 97 and the smart guys think
>>that number is too low and china is lying to us about it - so it looks
>>like China is growing a War Machine.
>
> So?
> Sooner or later it will be serious economic competitors to the US and
> then they will have to defend themselves from you.
>
> Greetings!
> Volker
>

Need for defense may or may not imply a war machine. If
the Chinese have no expansionist plans, and
demonstrate some measure of commitment to civil rights,
there'd be no basis in conflict.

Some organ of Chinese law prohibits
foreign ownership of property, I'm sure
out of historical remembrance of The Boxer
Rebellion. Fountain pens are more economically
efficient than firearms 

--
Les Cargill