Marching to world domination: China celebrates 60 years of communism with a display of military might that should worry the West
...China itself is well on the way to becoming one of the world's dominant military powers. Already, its standing army alone has more than 2.25 million men. And for the past 20 years, the Chinese have been modernising at a staggering rate - ploughing the fruits of their industrial revolution not into welfare programmes, health care or the environmental protection their people so badly need, but into guns, guns and more guns. It is no accident that the ... Full Story »
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Given the Korean war, the VietNam war, the Iraq invasion, and the Afghanistan invasion, is China being defensive, an imitator, or an offensive threat? Is the brutal social genocide in Tibet worse than the religious and economic subjugation attempted in Iraq? When looking for demons, self reflection can be helpful.