Dave,
"Mixing" is your word. It is OK and a matter of opinion. My word would be "linking."
As for being lost in the Nixon era, I hope not.
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John Gibson, FoxNew.com
July 19, 2004
.... What the*U.S. Navy*is doing is an exercise to show the world — including China, one supposes — that we can mass carrier battle groups quickly from all over the globe... specifically that the U.S. can mass six carrier battle groups in 30 days, and bring in another two a couple months later.
The Navy says we're not trying to send a message to China over Taiwan. Maybe so... but the Chinese are apparently listening to the message we say we're not sending.
According to Friday's Washington Times, the Chinese are on a submarine-building spree... submarines are what you use to oppose carrier battle groups.
So the Chinese, according to this report, have figured out that if they want to challenge U.S. military power in the Western Pacific — whether over Taiwan or whatever — they should build submarines, and that is what they are doing.
... It is that the present U.S. national security policy — enunciated by the Bush administration in 2002 — is that American will allow no country, friend or foe, to develop the military capability that would challenge it.
My point was and is this: watch China. China has the money to challenge us where the Soviets did not.
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Notice the date, July 19, 2004. Nixon, I am afraid, has passed away along with Ronald Reagan and Kennedy, Johnson and a few others. Dead Presidents can still be seen on money.
Why can we not outspend the Chinese into submission like the Soviets? Because it has become the number one place in the world to invest. Have they become more capitalistic? In pockets -- yes. In total, not much. They are always being taken to the world courts for copyright infringement and other such non-free trade problems.
They get plenty of investment from the US. With that money, they might start an arms race. Maybe not. But they have bought Soviet technology, have upgraded ICBMs and are on a submarine spending spree. The have a huge number of their nuclear warheads pointed at Taiwan. The rest at the US. They can build and buy submarines and other war technology because we give them jobs and investment capital.
So yes, I link the two. When we buy Chinese stuff (which is mostly junk anyway) we are helping this policy. The US has recently asked Israel to quit helping the Chinese with military equipment and technology. I am not stuck at all in the Nixon era. This is about today.
Wal-Mart is the biggest retailer in the world. It is also the biggest seller of Chinese imports. Always lower prices -- no matter what the cost. I make the link there too.
Dave, I know you and I disagree sometimes (and agree sometimes) but I am neither uneducated nor uninformed. Your opinions my differ from mine, and that is OK, even good. But please do not assert I am working on 30 year old data.
With respect,
Jim