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To: TobagoJack who wrote (84317)	12/9/2011 8:00:35 PM
From: Hawkmoon	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217561

let me say without any doubt that Ok.. of course you have no doubt, because you're rather uneducated about the PLA (apparently).. The PLA is the world's largest military force, with approximately 3 million members (see List of countries by number of total troops), and has the world's largest (active) standing army, with approximately 2.25 million members .. Furthermore... Military service is compulsory, in theory, for all men who attain the age of 18 en.wikipedia.org Compare this to the standing armed forces of the US at 1,477,896: en.wikipedia.org china spends far less than usa on weapons and military, and exports far less of same They don't make anything that any other nation wants.. But their SKS's are really cheap plinkers.. china does not keep 700 bases around the planet Ever think that the countries where those bases are located WANT US forces there to ward off domineering countries like China? It's not like we're forcing them to let us have bases there. They derive mutual benefit from the relationship. If they don't want us there, we leave, as we're doing in Iraq. But Chinese soldiers are still in Tibet, where the people never spoke Chinese.. china does have a 'no first use' on policy on nukes Too bad they don't have a "no first claim" policy on other country's territorial claims.. (ala S. China Sea). But stating "no first use" is one thing, abiding by it is quite another. Hopefully all countries have a "no first use" policy. do you object to china possessing nukes? I object to their building them and not declaring them.. I have no problem with their possessing them for defensive purposes (as the US and other nation's do). china cannot be over-built as yet because it is hardly built at all Never said that.. Just said they are building stuff at a cost that the average Chinese cannot afford (expensive houses, and planned cities). So the people who do build them wind up losing significant money on them, often to create the false impression of GDP growth. There's a huge amount of growth to take place in China.. But money is being misallocated and not benefiting the majority of people. My GF, who is Indonesian, recently went to Guilin (where the caverns are located). She was SHOCKED by how dirty the place was.. And this is a girl who has lived in dirty Jakarta all of her life. you seem to have difficulty in absorbing the econo-monetary-financio-socio-historical lessons this thread had offered up. You seem to believe those lessons don't apply to China.. Hawk