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May God help us, and our Asian allies too, if we don’t right now step back from our own self-immolating socialist precipice

China’s Sea Power, Among Other Powers



Recent publications (such as the attachment) have highlighted China’s dramatic improvements in naval power. It’s not just China’s navy. The army & air force, as well as rocket force, have dramatically improved their capabilities in the last decade. And modernization is only starting, now with a powerful coal-fired economic engine to generate it. “It” may well end up being far more than just a military of just a China that we recognize on maps today. “It” may be a far different looking and behaving China than what we have seen in nearly two centuries.

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China’s designs could end up like a world-changing meteor crash. This should not be a surprise; China has traditionally not been the starving-children poor-nation basket case we have grown up accustomed to seeing. China, for two thousand years the “Center Of All Under Heaven”, has periodically been overrun by temporarily militarily superior “barbarians”. The 1840s Opium War was no exception. Gunpowder changed the equation, but then, so did Mongol horsemen against Chinese infantry in the 1200s. A century after the Opium Wars ripped apart China’s national integrity, China re-secured its own territorial integrity when Mao won the century-long, multipolar Asian war. Today, another half-century later, socialist philosophy (and current apparent success) only reinforces the traditional Chinese versions of xenophobia and Zionism; today, China can again see itself as having everything desirable and as deserving of tribute from all the world’s other states, kow-towing as the barbarians we apparently always have merely been … in Chinese eyes. And we will wonder, in the next few decades, just as we did in the 1930s wrt another Asian power: will China go north to Siberian resources, south to India or South China Sea resources, and/or west to the ‘baby stans’ for those wind-swept resources? As it moves we will wonder ‘how’. Will it be outright expansion & annexation (like Tibet – historically not part of China until Mao took it)? Or, will it be more traditional Chinese nation-to-nation extortion, in the particularly Chinese style: the Tribute System? Means & vectors, those will profoundly occupy our time & fears in the next few decades. North, South, West … oh, yes … East. Will China strike east to resource-poor and energy-poor Asian peninsular & island nations? Those nearby and highly populated countries will be more readily accessible – acquirable, and pressurable – with a modern navy & air force. Those nations to China’s east … hmmm … may offer female companionship especially attractive to a nation of 1.3 billion – a nation that already has more than 100,000,000 Chinese men who cannot find Chinese women. . The wives they should have had, recall, were killed (abortion and post-birth infanticide) under China’s one-child-per-family policy. This policy, like all others that militate against natural law, eventually run quite afoul of the Law Of Unintended Consequences. A ‘good’ war would free up lots of women for the taking, and reduce the number of men (in multiple countries) doing the wanting. And now China’s self-centeredness is reinforced by socialist ‘leading edge of human evolution’ thinking, and enabled by emerging military parity (regional superiority). Increasingly, China can find alternative means to survive a self-inflicted lack of women – and perhaps some version of ‘lebensraum’ to disperse China’s self-declared ‘population problem’. And, ‘being innocent of the crime’ will not save neighboring countries from paying the price, in our world historically much ruled by the dictates of ‘might makes right’. Indeed, to a powerful, resurgent ‘All Under Heaven’ central kingdom, the world map may look considerably different, as if a meteor crashed from the heavens and humanity re-worked all its networks to cope. Some nations may become impoverished as China effects oceanic resource rights it now merely asserts. Some nations may become tributaries in resource or human extraction terms. Others, more far flung (like the USA, Canada, Poland, UK, etc), could end up as impoverished kow-towing financial tributary powers. China’s sea power wasn’t the first warning sign, but it is the most easily visible warning sign. We could have noticed the signs outlined above. We might also have noticed who is financing the USA’s massive federal debts, ever since President Clinton pronounced China is the USA’s “strategic partner” and “Made In China” began to supplant all else in the USA’s department stores, automotive supplies, and hardware aisles … and computer components. The 1400-year against Jihad isn’t the only threat we face, SecDef Gates’ myopia notwithstanding. How is Chinese potential, in context of recent international experience? Hitler was quite terrible, but he was only like a meteor. Bolshevik USSR was bigger, managing a global cold war and space race while sponsoring revolutions around the globe. But the Kremlin was still just one phase of socialism’s meteor shower. China is another phase – not markedly less determined than when Beijing was feuding with Moscow over which socialist path was the true & proper development of human society. The hope – and there is one – is that there will somewhere be a USA strong enough and free enough – and willing enough – to save its own skin by restoring trust among recently backstabbed allies, and then staring down and outpacing (economically & militarily) one more state-controlled socialist market economy. Maybe we need to learn more about relevant recent true history (like in Korea and East Europe), and less about distracting fictions (like anthropologic global warming). May God help us, and our Asian allies too, if we don’t right now step back from our own self-immolating socialist precipice.


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Paul Pekarek -- Bio and Archives

Paul Pekarek is a retired U.S. Air Force officer who has also spent 35 years studying science, geography, politics, economics, religions, military affairs, security, adult education, spaceflight, and history.  His professional career has included intercontinental ballistic missiles, mapmaking, adult education, foreign military sales, satellites, remote sensing, nuclear warfare, leadership, and technical intelligence.  He is currently a Freelance Writer and Independent Consultant living with his family in Minnesota.


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