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Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Buying Influence
Other outlets involved in the propaganda operation include Forbes, the Financial Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, Reuters, ABC News, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, AFP, TIME magazine, LA Times, The Hill, BBC, and The Atlantic.
Saturday, September 19, 2020
Too Obvious?
A great read but boils down to conventional wisdom. Better to be bigger, stronger, faster, meaner, tougher, and more shrewd than one's opponent. In my view, liberty makes that all possible and China does not stand a chance if the US sustains economic liberty.
The Great Nightfall, however, is fundamentally a book about how the United States can establish conventional and strategic deterrence in the modern world. “This book is not a call for war,” writes the author. “The best way to prepare for war is to be prepared to win it. We need to stop underfunding the military, especially in areas of research, non-conventional war, space, cyberwar, and artificial intelligence. War is changing, and we need to change with it. We cannot expect success fighting tomorrow’s conflicts with yesterday’s weapons.”
Middendorf’s blueprint for protecting America in the twenty-first century stands out in two ways. First, he provides a detailed assessment of how to protect the U.S. capacity to build and sustain a modern military. Here, he addresses issues from research and development, to establishing secure, “clean” supply chains, to ship-building. Second, he delivers a comprehensive overview of future U.S. naval needs.
The Great Nightfall, however, is fundamentally a book about how the United States can establish conventional and strategic deterrence in the modern world. “This book is not a call for war,” writes the author. “The best way to prepare for war is to be prepared to win it. We need to stop underfunding the military, especially in areas of research, non-conventional war, space, cyberwar, and artificial intelligence. War is changing, and we need to change with it. We cannot expect success fighting tomorrow’s conflicts with yesterday’s weapons.”
Middendorf’s blueprint for protecting America in the twenty-first century stands out in two ways. First, he provides a detailed assessment of how to protect the U.S. capacity to build and sustain a modern military. Here, he addresses issues from research and development, to establishing secure, “clean” supply chains, to ship-building. Second, he delivers a comprehensive overview of future U.S. naval needs.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/avoiding-armageddon-checkmating-china-169198
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
US Will See Better Days, but China ...
... will run out of cards to play. Guessing the future is a fool's game but I'll always be more bullish on human liberty over goonish centralized planning (not that there's any other kind).
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/05/29/the_chinese_economy_is_reeling_president_trump_is_the_reason_why_494378.html
https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2020/05/29/the_chinese_economy_is_reeling_president_trump_is_the_reason_why_494378.html
Monday, May 14, 2012
Seeing the Obvious
What you most likely haven’t heard is that across a wide range of economic, technological, and military indicators, the United States is actually, in the words of political scientist Michael Beckley, “wealthier, more innovative, and more militarily powerful compared to China than it was in 1991.” As Beckley explains in a recent article in International Security, China’s growth in per capita income, value added in high technology, and military spending is impressive primarily because China is starting from such a low base. That the United States has continued to grow across all of these dimensions is making it exceedingly difficult for China to catch up. Beckley thus concludes that China is “rising in place.” That is, while China is improving its economic and military position in absolute terms, it is stagnating relative to America, even in an era of sluggish U.S. growth.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299334/lethargic-dragon-reihan-salam#
All of the fuss about China - is it deliberately done to confuse and frighten? To justify the US's defense of Taiwan? Or are so many folks really that confused? It's never been a concern to me, because we know centralized control isn't effective in the long term. Their highly vaunted 100 year plan? It was a complete waste of time, there's no plan of any significance that can anticipate that amount of change. The point of our Republic is that it shouldn't have to rely upon the wisdom of politicians in order to succeed. There's does, which is why they are no threat.
Further, this section highlights our economic schizophrenia:
This doesn’t change the fact that China’s economic rise since the late 1970s has been impressive. Hundreds of millions of Chinese have been lifted from poverty over the last three decades, and the country’s teeming coastal cities have emerged as the workshop of the world.
Right, so we want folks to have liberty, more liberty, so they can be productive and raise themselves out of poverty. But we don't want folks to have liberty and be more productive because in so doing they increase their "carbon footprint." So we take money at gunpoint from our citizenry and give it to foreign government as aid. It does little good, perhaps harms the populace, but we get to call it aid so we can feel good. Because we are good people and don't want all those poor starving Chinese and Indians to have it so bad. Well, kind of we do.
WTF. Let them have all the liberty they can get and be done with it.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299334/lethargic-dragon-reihan-salam#
All of the fuss about China - is it deliberately done to confuse and frighten? To justify the US's defense of Taiwan? Or are so many folks really that confused? It's never been a concern to me, because we know centralized control isn't effective in the long term. Their highly vaunted 100 year plan? It was a complete waste of time, there's no plan of any significance that can anticipate that amount of change. The point of our Republic is that it shouldn't have to rely upon the wisdom of politicians in order to succeed. There's does, which is why they are no threat.
Further, this section highlights our economic schizophrenia:
This doesn’t change the fact that China’s economic rise since the late 1970s has been impressive. Hundreds of millions of Chinese have been lifted from poverty over the last three decades, and the country’s teeming coastal cities have emerged as the workshop of the world.
Right, so we want folks to have liberty, more liberty, so they can be productive and raise themselves out of poverty. But we don't want folks to have liberty and be more productive because in so doing they increase their "carbon footprint." So we take money at gunpoint from our citizenry and give it to foreign government as aid. It does little good, perhaps harms the populace, but we get to call it aid so we can feel good. Because we are good people and don't want all those poor starving Chinese and Indians to have it so bad. Well, kind of we do.
WTF. Let them have all the liberty they can get and be done with it.
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