Lego - Quote "The Ivans and the chinks" You really show your racist attitude here.

Please be so kind as to tell people what experience you have with Russian or Chinese people that would make you so hateful?

To Phillip S

I also called the Americans "yanks", but I noticed that you did not get all self righteous over that? The reason I am a racist, is because of people like yourself who claim to be non racist, but who judge white people (especially yanks) by a different standard than they judge other races. Thank you for displaying your own double standard on this subject.

To James "O'Neill.

A very poor response, James. Unless I read a bunch a loony left books which gave you a twisted view of the world, then I am not qualified to comment? Look James, I can read a 1500 word article by Kate Smith and I can see holes in her reasoning that I can drive a bloody bus through.

Her conclusions are so potty, that what interests me more is how an intelligent and supposedly intelligent person like Kate could actually get such a twisted worldview. But I know enough of history to know that attitudes like Kate's have been common among educated people in recent history.

I lived through a time when educated and eloquent people like Kate advocated a Socialist economic system which beggared the populations of the countries which were stupid enough to accept it, and turned what should have been advanced societies into screaming nightmares, right out of 1984. An intelligent person might have thought that turning a country into a giant prison camp would a bad idea, but educated elites like Kate were still advocating support for Socialist tyranny right up to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Here we are thirty years later, and the same bunch of social climbing socialists are at it again, and still hurling brickbats at the USA who did the most to destroy their utopian socialist nightmare. Pick up any contemporary history book and read how the university socialists in Seoul cheered on Kim Il Sung's tanks and how the university socialists in Cambodia cheered on Pol Pots Khmer Rouge.

And then they wondered why they were being led to the killing fields.

I do not want Americans, especially the warmongering types, on Australian soil. No good can come of it given where we are located!

America is a rogue nation, one intent on gaining world domination. Big Brother and the U.S. are synonymous.

Read some of the articles on Information Clearing House if you don't believe me.

LEGO - Because in your first post you paraphrased the author "She equates the fact that the Chinese now own a 20 year old ex Soviet built aircraft carrier," YOU used Chinese here.

But your third posting Quote "The Russians could not have a missile more advanced than the yanks, Arjay. The Ivans and the chinks have to wait until the yanks invent a new technology before they can steal it."
Is totally hostile with the intent to denigrate them.
Maybe you could give some examples to prove your argument that they steal every idea.

If one person from 1 race calls another person from the same race (or similar) something it is not deemed racist. For all I know you may be American.

Hi LEGO

I pretty much agree with you, noting the article appears to be re-translated from a much longer paper that the author (who can speak Mandarin Chinese) may have originally translated into Chinese.

Hence there are, verb at the end, sentences like:

"A strategically vital lifeline that American and Western military interests and capabilities do not have in Southeast Asia, but China does."

Many of the author's claims appear to be heavily reliant on Chinese information and Chinese-strategic-academic points of view - in contrast to the usual American information and points of view.

Its interesting to get an idea of what the Chinese establishment, or some in Chinese academia, think via this article.

Regards

Pete

Hi Planagenet

Your premise makes a lot of sense. After re reading Kate Smith's article, it does indeed seem like a Chinese inspired propaganda effort where Chinese capability is talked up, and the yanks are portrayed as so deficient that they have to go hat in hand to the Aussies to find a base to match Chinese advances.

Her claim about "China's first aircraft carrier fleet is coming online" is so over the top that only an Oriental could suggest it and think that people are stupid enough to believe it. Her exaggerated and fanciful boastings brings to mind such sophisticated Communist propaganda as the so called "spontaneous confessions" of shot down US pilots in Korea which had headings of "HOW MY CRUEL CAPITALIST MASTERS FORCED ME TO MAKE INHUMAN GERM WARFARE ON PEACE LOVING SOCIALIST PEOPLE".

China has been unable to build its own aircraft carrier, even after stealing HMAS Melbourne (by setting up a phony scrap metal company that was supposed to cut it up) and towing it to Shanghai to try and figure out how a carrier was built.

Her extraordinary claim about how sophisticated the Chinese are because they have ocean going satellite tracking ships ignores the fact that this is major disadvantage to the Chinese. They need these ships because they don't have any bases to track them. And they are obviously sore at the Australians for giving the yanks the bases that they covet.

Then there is the claim about the Chinese anti satellite missile which is treated by the author as a triumph of Chinese engineering, when all it did was blow up a non manoeuvring old satellite and enrage the entire international community by adding 4000 new pieces of space junk that threaten the existence of commercial and scientific satellites.

Some triumph.

It doesn't take a Mensa from the local Audobon Society to figure out that the whole article is crapola. Even a Densa could figure it out. Unfortunately, James O'Neill, Arjay and StephenS can not even match a Densas modest intellectual attainment.