In case you missed it, China told us to STFU....

[Virginia Dare]

just the latest in a seemingly endless series of insults and smack-downs of the Yoo Ess of Ayyy lately. Seems our super power status ain't so super anymore.

What's our response to this one gonna be "yo mama"?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060818/ap_on_re_as/britain_china_us

[Goblinmonger]

1. The USA has been diddling itself

over our "success" in the middle east while China has been becoming the world superpower under our nose.

China would kick our ass in a war and their economy is growing at a fantastic rate. I wonder how we will feel being #2--to a bunch of Asians.

[NC_Nurse]

2. I heard the tape of it on NPR

Hilarious! The guy pointed out that who were we to criticize their military spending....HE WAS RIGHT ON!
Somebody needs to tell these jackasses where to get off. He also pointed out that they aren't invading and fighting ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. Guess who is?

:think:

[Hugin]

5. Nah, they invaded and genocided Tibet long ago...

There were a couple of others.

[Bucky]

3. Most presidents have scandals & any president can blow a war, but...

When a leader can actually knock his own country out of superpower status in just a 5 year time frame... that's a truly historical achievement. How many other world leaders have ever sunk their nation's stock so far so fast? Nero couldn't do that--the Roman Empire survived his corrupt regime more or less unaltered in raw power. Chamberlain, maybe, altho the British Empire was already in wane. Bush inherited a nation at the apex of its world power status. The Ming dynasty emperors certainly navigated the kingdom into decay down from being a superpower--but the decline took a couple of centuries and they had the Mongols to push them over.

The only true historical parallel I can think of is Darius 3rd of Persia. His obsession with punishing the marginal Greek city states on the periphery of his empire brought about his country's doom. Thank goodness the Muslim fanatics we face are politically incapable of producing an Alexander the Great. But just in case, maybe I'll go and buy my daughter a burkha.

[NC_Nurse]

4. "a truly historical achievement"

:rofl:
True enough.

[leftchick]

6. oh god, where have I heard this before?

<snip>

Sha said the world need not worry about China's growing economic and military might because "China basically is a peace-loving nation."

:hide:

[TreasonousBastard]

7. I didn't miss it, and...

I hate to see my country in such a sad state, but we now owe China hundreds of billions for happily moving so much of our production over there and then we whine at them for spending some of their money on missiles aimed at Taiwan. And all we can do is whine.

Chinese are far more patient than Texans of the rhinestone cowboy brand, and will take Taiwan when they very well please to. Our adventures in the Middle East have demonstrated that there is not a thing we can do to protect Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan. It's not guesswork on their part any more that we are indeed are a paper tiger. Heavily armed, but still highly flammable paper.

[RagingInMiami]

8. Let's see how quickly that winds up in the memory hole

[pretzel4gore]

9. old stats yes but...

this statistic was taken from 'the borgen project' a few years ago....what the figure is today is anybody's guess, but as the nazipoohs are provably so goddam dishonest - it's almost a moot point regardless. what's amazing to my way of thinking is that china put a man into earth orbit last year, to so little pigmedia att'n it isn't even known by vast majority our citizens. china isn't a democracy (the prc was born in revolution, like old ussr, cuba, iran and mexico etc) but its government doesn't defy the majority of the people, who themselves are knowlegable about what's going on, thus china's government might actually reflect the interest of its people. this is in comparison with us, who have a pigmedia who are so committed to a dishonest version of what's going on that (?)
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Defense Spending
Experts once argued whether Americans would finally grasp the enormity of the
military budget when spending reached $100 billion. Now $416 billion, and
candidates still arguing over who will spend the most, it would appear people still
haven't grasped a budget beyond comprehension.
Here's how political leaders are
spending the discretionary budget.
World's Largest
Military Budgets:
($U.S. Billions)
United States 416.0
Russia* 65.0
China* 47.0
Japan 42.6
U.K. 38.4
France 29.5
Germany 24.9
Saudi Arabia 21.3
Italy 19.4
India 15.6
South Korea 14.1
Brazil* 10.7
Taiwan* 10.7
Israel 10.6
Spain 8.4
Australia 7.6
Canada 7.6
Netherlands 6.6
Turkey 5.8
Mexico 5.9
Kuwait* 3.9
Ukraine 5.0
Iran 4.8
Singapore 4.8
Sweden 4.5
Egypt* 4.4
Norway 3.8
Greece 3.5
Poland 3.5
Argentina* 3.3
U.A.E.* 3.1
Colombia* 2.9
Belgium 2.7
Pakistan* 2.6
Denmark 2.4
Vietnam 2.4
North Korea 2.1
Czech Republic 1.6
Iraq 1.4
Philippines 1.4
Portugal 1.3
Libya 1.2
Hungary 1.1
Syria 1.0
Cuba 0.8
Sudan 0.6
Yugoslavia 0.7
Luxembourg 0.2
Source: www.cdi.org.