From Mensaje magazine via Mirada Global:
Should we be worried about China? Its rise as a relevant actor is undoubtedly the central phenomenon in 21st century international relations. The deep political and economic changes currently in course show a radical transformation of the international order established after W.W.II, an order that was bipolar until de demise of the U.S.S.R. and unipolar during the latest twenty years. The perspective of a multipolar world, as China seems to desire, opens unknown perspectives and therefore, eventually dangerous.
An important fact is the strategic weakening of the United States after the obvious failure of its Nation Building policy promoted in Afghanistan and Iraq. The military interventions have only lead to greater destabilization and uprisings against US intervention. In the meantime the other powers, as well as the new alliances between nations seem to move towards the bunkerization of their respective strategic spaces instead of the project of globalization and liberalization promoted by liberal philosophy. The prevailing idea among them is the impulse to strengthen security, which leads to accusing foreigners of all the evils that affect the nation, to limit or even hinder the displacement of people, and to overreact facing real, exaggerated or imaginary threats. In an act of mistrust in relation to the South, the European Union accepts the installation of U.S. missiles formally directed against Iran and North Korea to be positioned in Southern Spain, directed towards the Mediterranean.
This scenario presents an important challenge: Doesn’t increasing the security of one country or group of countries weaken the security of the others?
Also available in Spanish.
Tim Reidy
http://www.ucanews.com/2012/02/28/difficulties-ahead-for-china-vatican-relations/
For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOZVArwgY8s
Because SNOW is more plentiful than saltpeter...
The PLA is the most powerful institution in China and they are aggressive and are making problems for their West Asian neighbors at this very time and are active elsewhere around the world. They spend lots of money on modern military equipment and there are 4.5 million currently in uniform which could be expanded to tens of millions in a short time.
A lot of the so called economic gains by China is probably bogus and many of their banks are broke but this is not allowed to be reported as such. These banks have lent out money for real estate investment all over China which are essentially ghost cities but the investments are carried on their books as fully viable indicating they are growing when in fact they are collapsing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E
This is what happened in Ireland where 25% of the economy was people building for each other. Eventually it was a disaster when no one wanted the buildings.
Will there be a day of reckoning? Probably some time in the near future there will be but they do not have any Western standards for accounting. It will affect the Chinese people more than anyone but there will be repercussions around the world. And one scenario is when it does happen the military will mobilize to control everything. Pray that does not happen. They are not nice people.
''The article is anti-American in tone,'' What would expect from an organization that praises Cuba. From the article:
''Western Supremacy isn’t threatened so much by the rise of China or other powers, but by the progressive failure of a liberal system based in a financial capitalism whose biggest mistake has been to forget the value of man.''
What utter nonsense! And this from the people who praise Cuba and China itself where Mao and his forward thinking did in 60-80 million people. It is not that some very undesirable things didn't happen due to capitalism but freedom which essentially started with the Greeks has produced an incredible number of positive advances. The achievements of Western Civilization is endless and they are still going on and most of it was funded by the excesses provided by capitalism.
I wonder how they will like ''Coming Apart'' here. I just finished it. It has a very different story to tell about what is wrong with America.