China preparing for armed conflict 'in every direction'

[BlueStateSaint]

Got this from Drudge.  They've certainly got enough people under arms to do this, I would think.

China preparing for armed conflict 'in every direction'

China is preparing for conflict 'in every direction', the defence minister said on Wednesday in remarks that threaten to overshadow a visit to Beijing by his US counterpart next month.

By Peter Foster, Beijing 1:30PM GMT 29 Dec 2010

"In the coming five years, our military will push forward preparations for military conflict in every strategic direction," said Liang Guanglie in an interview published by several state-backed newspapers in China. "We may be living in peaceful times, but we can never forget war, never send the horses south or put the bayonets and guns away," Mr Liang added.

China repeatedly says it is planning a "peaceful rise" but the recent pace and scale of its military modernisation has alarmed many of its neighbours in the Asia-Pacific, including Japan which described China's military build-up as a "global concern" this month.

Mr Liang's remarks come at a time of increasingly difficult relations between the Chinese and US armed forces which a three-day visit by his counterpart Robert Gates is intended to address. A year ago China froze substantive military relations in protest at US arms sales to Taiwan and relations deteriorated further this summer when China objected to US plans to deploy one of its nuclear supercarriers, the USS George Washington, into the Yellow Sea off the Korean peninsula.

China also announced this month that it was preparing to launch its own aircraft carrier next year in a signal that China is determined to punch its weight as a rising superpower. The news came a year earlier than many US defence analysts had predicted.

China is also working on a "carrier-killing" ballistic missile that could sink US carriers from afar, fundamentally reordering the balance of power in a region that has been dominated by the US since the end of the Second World War.

The rest is at:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8229789/China-preparing-for-armed-conflict-in-every-direction.html

It certainly is interesting.  I noted a couple of weeks ago--maybe last week, before Christmas?--that there's a game company preparing to launch a game called Home Front, about an invasion of the United States--but it's by a reunified (under the North) Korea that dominates the Pacific Rim.  Maybe they got the country wrong . . .

[thundley4]

China is building their military and Obama and congress has crippled our missile defense with the new treaty with Russia.  Still no valid explanation for the missile launch off the coast of California.

[JohnnyReb]

Unfortunately, if China attacks, it'll be on the left coast....the hippies will be greeting them with flowers and the queers will be offering BJ's.

[olde north church]

China is building their military and Obama and congress has crippled our missile defense with the new treaty with Russia.  Still no valid explanation for the missile launch off the coast of California.

The explanation is Obama is gigantic, wind-sucking asshole.

[Airwolf]

China still doesn't have a way to move its troops withtout sending them to the bottom of the ocean first. The sad part is the Dems would let them in just by giving up once they did get here.

[Tucker]

If China attacked the left coast, they would advance all the way to the Rockies before any resistance is felt and that would be Mother Nature. It could get hairy moving eastward. More resistance.

On a side note. MGM is recovering from bankruptcy and is set to release "Red Dawn" this year. The new version has the US at war with China.