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china has most well run govt in developing world. democrats want to stop this. the want ineffective govt and chaos like india and thailand. chinese ppl prefer prosperity and stability
lots of small properties they want back. the time is ripe to take them w/o interference.
we were a super power--- now we are just a debtor looking for more loan extensions from our creditor. i dont think we will do much if there is a taiwan invasion.
nation - - - - - - budget - - - - - - - % of GDP
United States -- 698,105,000,000 -- 4.7%
PRC / China -----114,000,000,000 -- 2.2%
Methinks this is not evidence of a "huge" Chinese military, by any stretch of the imagination.
USA population: 313 million spending 698 Billion (2010)
PRC population: 1339 million spending 114 Billion (2010)
PRC does have the biggest army, but as a percentage of the population, is not that big.
1.7 active military per 1000 (PRC) versus 5.1 active military per 1000 (USA)
USA spends SIX times as much on our military.
P.S. - Israel has 24 active military per 1000 population... Now THAT is militarization of the population !
china has most well run govt in developing world. democrats want to stop this. the want ineffective govt and chaos like india and thailand. chinese ppl prefer prosperity and stability
The Chinese people like what their government tells them to like.
I will admit they are the best copiers of technology in the world today...
nation - - - - - - budget - - - - - - - % of GDP
United States -- 698,105,000,000 -- 4.7%
PRC / China -----114,000,000,000 -- 2.2%
Methinks this is not evidence of a "huge" Chinese military, by any stretch of the imagination.
USA population: 313 million spending 698 Billion (2010)
PRC population: 1339 million spending 114 Billion (2010)
PRC does have the biggest army, but as a percentage of the population, is not that big.
1.7 active military per 1000 (PRC) versus 5.1 active military per 1000 (USA)
USA spends SIX times as much on our military.
P.S. - Israel has 24 active military per 1000 population... Now THAT is militarization of the population !
I'm sorry, you've gone at least 1 step beyond the majority of the CD PnC'ers' ability to comprehend information.
Empty crates that littered the warehouse floor contained documentation that showed they once held thousands of the most advanced Russian anti-aircraft missiles — the type lusted after by terrorist groups worldwide.
Researchers estimate Col. Gaddafi had a stockpile of up to 20,000 sophisticated Russian SA-24 missiles, shoulder-fired anti-aircraft weapons, similar to the United States’ Stinger missile, which are capable of destroying combat aircraft flying at heights of 11,000 feet (3,352 metres).
Libyan forces also had huge stockpiles of smaller SA-7 and SA-9 heat-seeking, surface-to-air-missiles capable of shooting down slower, lower-flying targets. In 2002, al-Qaeda used SA-7 missiles in an unsuccessful attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner over the Kenyan port city of Mombassa.
Russian SA-24 missiles are a modern version of the anti-aircraft missiles U.S. officials supplied Afghan mujahideen to turn the war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Most of Libya’s missile stockpiles remain unaccounted for and empty crates in some weapons dumps suggests the arms may already be smuggled out of the country along with fleeing Gaddafi loyalists.
The missing weapons have the potential to create a global terrorism crisis. They could rearm al-Qaeda terrorists worldwide and they could turn North Africa into a deadly war zone.
The Libyan revolt that began with a Facebook call for protests and rapidly turned into a bloody civil war and international military intervention, is now showing signs of becoming a prolonged post-war insurgency.
As Muammar Gaddafi’s routed security forces make stubborn last stands in a handful of strongholds or stream out of Libya, crossing the desert into neighbouring Niger and Mali in heavily armed convoys, experts are asking if Libya, like post-war Iraq, is stumbling toward an uncertain and violent future.
On Sunday, as rebel forces resumed their attack on the southern town of Bani Walid, Col. Gaddafi’s son, Saadi, and a convoy of heavily armed loyalists crossed into Niger, seeking refuge in a region already contaminated with the fallout from Libya’s war.
After four decades of unchallenged power, Gaddafi loyalists show no real signs of giving up. Loyalists launched surprise fightbacks on three fronts on Monday — at a Ras Lanuf oil refinery, near Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, and at Bani Walid.
China needs libyan oil and we just screwed them over
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