Obama Fiddles While the US Falters

China Threatens the US

Sensing weakness, inexperience, and a move away from capitalism, the Chinese may be planning, in their words, to "topple" the United States. They see our inward looking, and destructive domestic policies coupled with inexperienced and shrinking defense budgets as a sign of decline in the United States and an opportunity for China to take over as the world's military and economic leader. And, because of our misguided globalist economic policies, deficit spending, the strength of our unions weakening our economy, and our shrinking manufacturing base; China is expanding using US Dollars.

Here is the way a colonel in the People's Liberation Army sees it. Rest assured, a Chinese PLA colonel could not write the book expressing these things without the approval and encouragement of his superiors. Take this as Chinese military policy which means Chinese national policy.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China should build the world's strongest military and move swiftly to topple the United States as the global "champion," a senior Chinese PLA officer says in a new book reflecting swelling nationalist ambitions.

The call for China to abandon modesty about its global goals and "sprint to become world number one" comes from a People's Liberation Army (PLA) Senior Colonel, Liu Mingfu, who warns that his nation's ascent will alarm Washington, risking war despite Beijing's hopes for a "peaceful rise."

"China's big goal in the 21st century is to become world number one, the top power," Liu writes in his newly published Chinese-language book, "The China Dream."

"If China in the 21st century cannot become world number one, cannot become the top power, then inevitably it will become a straggler that is cast aside," writes Liu, a professor at the elite National Defense University, which trains rising officers.

His 303-page book stands out for its boldness even in a recent chorus of strident Chinese voices demanding a hard shove back against Washington over trade, Tibet, human rights, and arms sales to Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own.

"As long as China seeks to rise to become world number one ... then even if China is even more capitalist than the U.S., the U.S. will still be determined to contain it," writes Liu.
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The next marker of how China's leaders are handling these swelling expectations may come later this week, when the government is likely to announce its defense budget for 2010, after a 14.9 percent rise last year on the one in 2008.
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I'm very pessimistic about the future," writes another PLA officer, Colonel Dai Xu, in another recently published book that claims China is largely surrounded by hostile or wary countries beholden to the United States.

"I believe that China cannot escape the calamity of war, and this calamity may come in the not-too-distant future, at most in 10 to 20 years," writes Dai.

"If the United States can light a fire in China's backyard, we can also light a fire in their backyard," warns Dai. source

What This Means

Although Obama's huge deficits (greater than the sum of his predecessors), his archaic socialist policies, and his international bumbling, are the major factor, he is not alone in weakening America. Presidents Clinton and Bush and their zeal for globalism must also take significant responsibility for our increasing trade imbalances, our open borders, and neglect of our strategic nuclear forces.

Conservatives elected in 2010 and in 2012 must do their utmost to unravel and repeal the myriad socialistic policies and legislation of the Obama Administration and focus more of our national treasure into national defense and economic security for America. We need a strong and patriotic replacement for the misguided globalist policies of the last 2 decades and for the socialist policies of the Obama Administration.