posted 03-30-2003 06:53 PM            

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/03/24/willy.column/index.html

China readies for future U.S. fight

By CNN Senior China Analyst Willy Wo-Lap Lam
Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Posted: 4:43 AM EST (0943 GMT)

SPECIAL REPORT

HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- The Iraqi war has convinced the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership that some form of confrontation with the U.S. could come earlier than expected.

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Beijing has also begun to fine-tune its domestic and security policies to counter the perceived threat of U.S. "neo-imperialism."

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As more emphasis is being put on boosting national strength and cohesiveness, a big blow could be dealt to both economic and political reform.

That the new leadership has concluded China is coming up against formidable challenges in the short to medium term is evident from recent statements by President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.

Hu indicated earlier this year Beijing must pay more attention to global developments so that "China make good preparations before the rainstorm ... and be in a position to seize the initiative."

Wen also pointed out in the first meeting of the State Council, or cabinet, last Saturday the leadership "must keep a cool head."

"We must boost our consciousness about disasters and downturns -- and think about dangers in the midst of [apparent] safety," he said.

Alarm bells about a deteriorating international situation have been sounded by the CCP's secretive Leading Group on National Security (LGNS), which coordinates policies in areas including diplomacy, defense and energy.

The LGNS, which is headed by Hu, has since early this month called a series of meetings to discuss ways to handle the Iraqi crisis.

In the near term, of course, the focus is on the impact of rising oil prices -- and on the need to build up a strategic oil reserve that can last at least 30 days.

However, economic concerns are not the top priority. Given the likelihood oil prices will drop after the resolution of the conflict, some government economists are saying the war's impact on this year's economic performance will be insubstantial.

Officials even cite the safe haven theory to predict foreign direct investment flowing into China will exceed the record $52 billion last year.

Of more concern to the LGNS is the perceived expansion of American unilateralism if not neo-imperialism.

As People's Daily commentator Huang Peizhao pointed out last Saturday, U.S. moves in the Middle East "have served the goal of seeking world-wide domination."

State Council think-tank member Tong Gang saw the conflict as the first salvo in Washington's bid to "build a new world order under U.S. domination."

Chinese strategists think particularly if the U.S. can score a relatively quick victory over Baghdad, it will soon turn to Asia -- and begin efforts to "tame" China.

It is understood the LGNS believes the U.S. will take on North Korea -- still deemed a "lips-and-teeth" ally of China's -- as early as this summer.

These developments have prompted China to change its long-standing geopolitical strategy, which still held true as late as the 16th CCP Congress last November.

Until late last year, Beijing believed a confrontation with the U.S. could be delayed -- and China could through hewing to the late Deng Xiaoping's "keep a low profile" theory afford to concentrate almost exclusively on economic development.

"Now, many cadres and think-tank members think Beijing should adopt a more pro-active if not aggressive policy to thwart U.S. aggression," said a Chinese source close to the diplomatic establishment.

posted 03-30-2003 07:25 PM            

JUST GO ALREADY !!!!

State Council think-tank member Tong Gang saw the conflict as the first salvo in Washington's bid to "build a new world order under U.S. domination."

good idea

posted 03-30-2003 08:57 PM            

Seeker believes that the Globalist plan to overextend our military and LET IT LOSE isn't possible. Seeker will continue to sit in his armchair watching the wars unfold on Fox, yelling "RAH RAH...go team!" untill finally our agression comes back to bite us on the @$$...OOPS!

posted 03-30-2003 09:41 PM            

quote:

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Originally posted by theseeker:
by golly I'll buy you the ticket gas bag !

JUST GO ALREADY !!!!

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It's that Zero-G sex thing, Seeker, that my wife and I would go. I know you and your family would go, too.

The problem is living on a planetary surface, and that brain center that deals with territorial dominance, so commpn amongst linear creatures and humans. You never know, maybe we'd share a bong, on another planet some day.

posted 03-30-2003 10:05 PM            

I talk to many Eurpopeans, and they are not fooled by American propaganda on how weak Russia and China are. Individually, they are more than capable ehough of holding the US off. What makes you think England would go along attacking China or Russia. Tony Blair will be gone long before that happens, and perhaps Dumbya along with him.

posted 03-30-2003 10:18 PM            

Mabye some air bursts...but the globalists want a livable planet....for their "utopian dream"...without us of course.

posted 04-02-2003 04:38 PM            

Hey PRof.

I don't like China either. Especially when they use slave labor. I wonder why the U.S. loves cheaply made Chinese goods so much instead of American made?

Why have a huge amount of our products we USED TO make..somehow magically were given to the Chinese to make?

posted 04-02-2003 04:47 PM            

riiggghhhttt....

posted 04-02-2003 05:14 PM            

your full of crap til you prove it...

which is a state your familiar with...

posted 04-02-2003 05:59 PM            

the topic is you can't back up what you say you stepped in shit and your pretending you didn't get it on thermit's carpet....

next time don't contradict ME and I'll be more than happy to let you look like a liar all on your own K ?

the 3 of you are setting new levels of idiocy....

posted 04-02-2003 07:31 PM            

btw, what little game is that mech ?

posted 04-02-2003 07:36 PM            

Iv'e lived in Florida, Virginia, North Carolina as well as the Northeast.

But getting BACK ON TOPIC.

Prof..

WHY do you think all of our jobs are going to the red Chinese and slave providences of India etc.?

posted 04-02-2003 07:42 PM            

YANKEE