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« on: January 17, 2008, 11:44:04 pm »

Note:  The following articles appeared here, http://www.haichuan.net/XHC/show.php?bbs=11&post=786796 . The page was entitled "ABC/Top Chinese General: 'We are not that capable' "

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=4129763&page=1

Top Chinese General: 'There Is No Need to Fear Us'

Top Chinese Official Talks Frankly to ABC News Before U.S. Meeting

By JONATHAN KARL
Jan. 14, 2008

In rare public comments, the Chinese military chief of staff told ABC News today that the United States should not be concerned about China's rapid military buildup, saying "there is no need to fear us."

"It is impossible for the U.S. to be afraid of our military development," said Gen. Chen Bingde, the chief of the General Staff Department of the People's Liberation Army.

"If you say the U.S. is afraid of our military development, then it means the U.S. does not have enough guts, it's easily scared, " he said. "We are not that capable. There is no need to fear us."

Chen's comments came shortly before he met with Adm. Timothy Keating, the top U.S. commander in the Pacific. Keating is in China for five days of talks with Chinese military leaders in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

Keating is visiting China to try to develop ties with the Chinese military. It's part of an effort, he says, to reduce the chances of potentially dangerous misunderstandings between the two biggest military powers in the Pacific.

"I want to develop a better sense of who they are and have them develop a better sense of who I am and who we are," Keating told ABC News.

Keating's visit is the first high-level meeting of American and Chinese military officials since China denied the USS Kitty Hawk access to Hong Kong for a scheduled port call. The United States formally protested China's actions toward the Kitty Hawk and two other smaller U.S. Navy ships that were denied safe harbor in Hong Kong during a storm in November.

Chen suggested that the Kitty Hawk and the other ships were denied entry to Hong Kong because the United States didn't follow proper procedures.

"Making a port call in Hong Kong and docking at your own port are two different things," he said. "Your ships can make port calls, but China's sovereignty must be respected. It should be done according to standard international procedures."

U.S. officials have expressed concern about China's rapidly growing military budget. Its defense budget has more than tripled over the last 10 years, including an 18 percent increase last year alone. The official defense budget for 2007 was $45 billion, according to the Chinese, although the Pentagon estimates that China actually spends more than three times that much.

Even with China's big increases in military spending, the United States spends far more than China on defense: $400 billion a year, and that doesn't include the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"We don't' see the need to engage in military competition with the U.S.," Chen said. "The development of our military is aimed at protecting our motherland and defending the unity of the motherland. It is also aimed at contributing to world peace and unity."

"Although we have raised the level of our mechanized forces and our information technology, we still cannot catch up with the level of the U.S. military. We are learning from you."

Chinese military officers rarely speak publicly. ABC News asked Chen several questions while he was waiting to meet with Keating. After answering the questions, he said, "I admire your courage."




Adm. Timothy Keating, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, is visiting to Beijing to confer with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi.  (US Navy Photo by MC2 Elisia Gonzales)

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=4129763&page=1
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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2008, 11:45:10 pm »

China says military buildup does not threaten U.S.

Mon Jan 14, 10:10 AM ET

BEIJING (Reuters) - China defended its growing military prowess on Monday, saying it did not threaten the United States, and again urged Washington not to sell weapons to Taiwan.

"The distance between the Chinese and U.S. militaries is big. If you fear China's military buildup you don't have much courage," said Chen Bingde, chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army.

"We don't have the ability to make you afraid of us," he told reporters in Beijing, before meeting Timothy Keating, head of the U.S. Pacific Command.

Some U.S. politicians have rung alarm bells about China's increased military spending and technological revamping of its armed forces.

Sino-U.S. relations were strained last year when China blocked a visit to Hong Kong by a U.S. aircraft carrier and accompanying ships.

China's actions prompted speculation it wanted to show irritation over U.S. plans to help Taiwan upgrade its missile system and over a meeting between President George W. Bush and exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

Beijing sees Taiwan as a renegade province and the Dalai Lama as a separatist trying to win independence for Tibet, which Chinese troops invaded in 1950.

Chen also bought up Taiwan with Keating, telling him Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian "had stubbornly intensified secessionist activities," the official Xinhua news agency said.

"Chen urged the United States to be aware of the risk of such activities, to cut off its military contact with Taiwan, and to stop weapon sales," the report added.

China has never renounced the use to force to bring Taiwan under its wing.

"We have the ability and also relevant measures to resolve the Taiwan issue if the splittists dare to separate Taiwan from the motherland," Chen told reporters, without elaborating.

China has repeatedly asked the United States to help rein in an increasingly assertive Taiwan, which Beijing fears is moving to formally declare independence and ditch its official name of the Republic of China.

Washington switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979 under the principle there can only be "one China" in the world, but is obliged by the Taiwan Relations Act to help the democratic island defend itself.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Jerry Norton)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080114/wl_nm/china_usa_military_dc
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« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2008, 12:25:59 pm »

Right, like the Illuminati won't have Chinese soldiers invade America at some point.

They'll be so pissed when their NWO agenda $#!t$ the bed.  They'll build up China in the meantime to send their 'Sino-Kazis' around the world to subvert other nations into being colonies for the global government.
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« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2008, 07:59:49 pm »

Yes, the comments of the Chinese are similar to the ones that Hitler used to make prior to World War II.

And yet, why would the Chinese literally need to make a military invasion?  They are buying up America, own a lot of our debt steal our technology and poison our food, appliances and toys. 

The only country to whom we are at more behest are Bush's overlords in Saudi Arabia.
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« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2008, 12:59:10 pm »

How the hell are the Chinese going to get here? Grin They have no navy with all the respective craft needed to sail in deep seas, defend the fleet, assault landing areas and land troops.  How many air craft carriers do they have again?

Blood's right they're just gonna keep sending over their cheap crap full of poison. That'll do it.Cool

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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2008, 01:48:21 pm »

How the hell are the Chinese going to get here? Grin They have no navy with all the respective craft needed to sail in deep seas, defend the fleet, assault landing areas and land troops.  How many air craft carriers do they have again?

Blood's right they're just gonna keep sending over their cheap crap full of poison. That'll do it.Cool



They'll repo American Navy ships, destroyers and aircraft carriers because you'll get some yuppie chi-commie-kazi to outsource/offshore/barter/use as collateral America's armamentary.
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