To: koan who wrote (6921 ) 2/18/2005 5:03:48 PM From: seventh_son Read Replies (2) | Respond to >>China's war machine: unfortunately, China is building a huge war machine which means the rest of the world will need to follow. And that takes a lot fometal, so we not only have massive worldwide infrastructure building going on, but it looks like we are going to have a new arms race :(.321energy.com ). If you believe the authour, the Bush administration has prepared itself to apply a strangehold on China, if and whenever necessary, by labelling several of its stragically located neighbours as "tyrannies" (not unlike the "axis of evil" speech), and as such having a ready pretext to install by whatever means necessary governments that are in line with US interests. Controlling China's neighbours allows the US to control the flow of oil, making sure it goes to the US and not China, especially in the event of hostilities. Myanmar, Indonesia, and Malaysia have all been warned, while other ominous references have been directed at the Philippines. Don't forget that the WW II Pacific War was largely about securing oil reserves, and Japan's loss was hugely aggravated by insufficient supplies of oil.
