Comments on: And you thought John Bolton was blunt…

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:14:45 +0000

That will not happen “Remort”. Such a militarization effort would not occur in Japan — not at such a level needed. It is very disingenuous of Sha to claim “that China’s military buildup was for defensive and deterrent purposes only.” Just who do they suppose would ever attack them? Certainly not the U.S., who would not dare since the result would be an ecomomic backlash of epic proportions. I only wonder if China’s military build-up is more for use at home, against dangerous monks like the Dali Lama (fight to the death) and irrate farmers and lawyers.

By: Remort

Remort — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:48:44 +0000

Let the Japanese kick China’s ass again!

–Remort

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:27:56 +0000

“Usual suspects. Predictable retorts.”

Yup. And the usual Bluejives response: avoid filling up the huge problems in your previous argument by dodging them - then throw up a strawman like “And I do not tolerate mindless China-bashing.”

Rather than trying to counter the arguments against your previous statement by explaining how the situation with Taiwan is so much like the American Civil War - rather than addressing what we have said pointing out how such a comparison is fatally flawed, you quietly abandon ship to throw up equally non-substanative crap.

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:48:42 +0000

No kidding! Expat websites with content critical of China get spammed mostly by overseas Chinese

Hmmm….I think I see a pattern here.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:45:09 +0000

The Chinese ambassador is correct. Most Chinese and non-Chinese defenders of the PRC claim that China has not fought a war since its founding, dismissing the invasion of Tibet as legitimate recovery of Chinese land and the wars with India, Vietnam, and Russia as defensive border skirmishes; even if one rejects these rationalizations, it is still true that the US military has been much more active, indeed, aggressive on the world stage than China during the post-war period. To understand the ambassador’s comments, try to look at the US and its use of military power from Korea to Vietnam to covert participation in civil wars and regime change in Central and South America and Africa to the Middle East through Chinese eyes. It is rather cheeky for the US, which has fought three non-defensive overseas wars, two against Iraq and one against Yugoslavia, in the last 15 years, to talk about the China threat.

By: Zonath

Zonath — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:26:13 +0000

I was actually fortunate enough to catch this interview on BBC World Service radio tonight. Sha got really vehement in the interview (more so than is conveyed in the article), beyond just saying that the US should shut up about China’s military spending. He also mentioned that there isn’t a single Chinese soldier engaged in a war anywhere and that China was “basically a peace-loving nation” that rarely throughout its history (compared to Europe, at least) engaged in wars. He also mentioned that China’s military buildup was for defensive and deterrent purposes only. It’s just too bad that there doesn’t seem to be a transcript of the interview online — the ’shut up’ part of it was obviously the most sensationalized part, but it was actually quite interesting beyond that.

By: shakuhachi

shakuhachi — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:38:13 +0000

“I’m of the opinion that certain sectors which drives America’s foreign policy goes out of its way to unnecessarily provoke China into becoming an enemy. I also seriously doubt that this is in America’s best interests, nor the world.”

“Certain sectors” that “drives America’s foreign policy”? If you mean “the Jews”, just come out and say it, Bluejives.

By: bluejives

bluejives — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:26:33 +0000

Usual suspects. Predictable retorts.

I’m of the opinion that certain sectors which drives America’s foreign policy goes out of its way to unnecessarily provoke China into becoming an enemy. I also seriously doubt that this is in America’s best interests, nor the world.

Also, I have no doubts that China has many internal problems. But guess what? America has many deep problems too. Maybe America should care more about America’s problems, for once?

And I do not tolerate mindless China-bashing.

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:50:16 +0000

And the history of how the government was set up in Taiwan and what was happening in the mainland makes any serious comparison a waste of time…

By: slim

slim — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:16:35 +0000

To be fair to bluejives (someone has to), China often tries to use that bogus analogy when explaining its need to use force to reunite Taiwan with the PRC.