BURNT OFFERING: We Must Not Ignore China’s Threat to Our Security
by Robert DaviWhile we get bombarded with the white noise of politics, this is what’s happening:
In short, China is a top-tier strategic threat to the United States, and its ideology of predatory state mercantilism constitutes one of the greatest challenges to America’s new Global Generation – like the danger posed by the Soviet Union to the Greatest Generation.
Wake up. Do not let our leadership sweep this under the rug:
But the Obama administration seems terrified of the implications of Google’s behavior. Google reportedly consulted the White House before acting, but the most the Obama people could say was that the events were “troubling,” or “raise serious concerns” or that they want to encourage China “to work with Google.
The administration’s timidity in facing the reality of China’s new superpower status was highlighted in October when the Obama White House directed the Intelligence Community to downgrade China to a Priority 2 intelligence target. This would be the first time in postwar history that China has ever been anything but a top-tier intelligence priority. Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told Bill Gertz of The Washington Times last week, “China should be at the top of the priority list, not moving down.”
This past November I was in Michigan filming when I had dinner with my friends’ Congressman Thaddeus McCotter from Michigan and Philippe Martinez (Producer and Director). I think McCotter is one of the special jewels in our government and I hope that at some point he runs for national office, perhaps for the White House. He is not what one would call Project Runway material, but his humor and intellect are stunning, and he can stroll the catwalk with the best of them. Anyway back to the dinner…
Aside from the usual humor and repartee a couple of Rat Packers can conjure at a cigar bar, the conversation turned to politics — China, in particular . What I learned then was quite frightening, and I had thought of writing about it but decided not to because it wouldn’t get any traction. After all, I’m not an expert in the field. Well, my friends, Thaddeus is. And he and another gentleman wrote this fantastic article that all must read. Please send it to your friends and remember: One if by land — two if by sea — three if by cyber.
We live in a very different world. Let’s see if President Obama addresses this in tonight’s State of the Union
–Robert Davi
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Fantastic article (yours and the linked article). As an Information Technology worker, I only heard in passing about Google's troubles with the Chinese cyber-attacks (and the involvement of the potential Chinese government).
Thank you for bringing this to light.
I am wondering what you think regarding this burgeoning, or ongoing, issue in light of the increases in the amount of US debt apparently held by the Chinese. In particular, do you have an opinion regarding foreign affiars regarding China and this current administration. I think you only imply your position in this article.
Those kilo submarines scare the crap out of me.
" Let’s see if President Obama addresses this in tonight’s State of the Union."
Great article Robert.
I sure wouldn't hold my breath tonight.
I wrote a script about China and the United States getting into a war on the Moon. America is going to lose until the government turns the task of capturing the Moon over to private citizens. No one will buy it.
My point is that there is very little chance Hollywood will address the China problem either – it's their biggest market. The MPAA will bend over backwards to make the Communists happy.
I'll wager that Duh one won't mention China at all. He's too cowardly. He's shone it time and again. What a sad, little man to run a great country like ours.
well the communist liberal atheists have revisied history to make Joe McCarthy as a bad guy. see any Hollywood film. thusly, will we ever get a Joe McCarthy to take charge of the new foreign communist power? sadly the communist within have done their job, and have left our gates wide open, our guards non existent.
the threat from China is down the road a piece- but it does exist…
It will be after a calamity of some sort brings us to our knees. Then they will proceed with 'The Long March'.
Invasion of mainland USA?
You bet…
"Google's disillusionment with China reflects its realization that the Internet is becoming a tool of thought control in a totalitarian state, not a channel of information freedom." Well, precisely! This hard reality is something the American left refuses to face, mostly because of hand-me-down sympathies with Maoist ideology via academic brainwashing and always turning a blind eye to the logical end of such regimes: Totalitarianism. Thanks Robert for making your readers aware of this important article! -DS / NYC
Google gets no sympathy from me what so ever.
They knew who they were getting in bed when they opened up an office in China, They know what that government does to dissidents, what happened at Tienanmen Square, Tibet. Didn't matter in the least for Google, not as long as they could get their almighty dollar. Even if its covered in blood.
The only reason Google suddenly got a conscience over the Chinese communists is because by them hacking into Google, they've hurt Google's PR campaign as the ultimate protector of personal information security that they're hawking all over the globe.
Ask yourself, after learning the Chinese government can hack into Google's servers, how eager are you sign up for one of their email accounts, or how about their grand ideas of being the keeper's of personal medical information?
Let not your heart be troubled. China is not going to start any kind of trouble with the people who owe them trillions of dollars, and more importantly buy tons of their plastic crap, employing millions of workers who might other wise have time to sit around and realize how much it sucks to live under communism.
They're just looking for cred.
I hear he'll be hawking a new import from China, a bobble head Bush doll that keeps repeating "Yep, my fault."
Good article Robert. Thank you!
Remember the satellite they shot down?
Remember the submarine coming up in the middle of the U.S. Fleet?
They just keep probing and probing.
No need to invade the USA. They will own all of it, including all the govt. land(National Parks, BLM lands) not to mention everything guaranteed by Fannie and Freddie! Which btw includes my house!
Why would the fight the war on the moon, if both sides have militaries designed around fighting a war on the earth?
Not trying to be snarky, but from a logical point, that's illogical.
World military expenditure in 2008 is estimated to have reached $1.46 trillion in current dollars
The USA is responsible for 41.5% of the world total
China , 5.8% of world share,
Plus our stuff works.
Mostly.
My husband's company does business with China, and from what he understands, China only allows a company to trade with them until they figure out how to rip off whatever it is you're selling so that they can produce a cheaper version. At that point, they're done with your product.
"China is not going to start any kind of trouble with the people who owe them trillions of dollars"
Could not agree more. Ive been saying for a while that because of the situation China does not have anything like our military competency, our debt allows us to control them rather than the other way round.
Its conceivable that they would fight a war over the Moon on the Earth, but I doubt we would actually be waging war on the moon itself. But I'll keep my hopes up.
The real threat from China, I think, is all in cyber warfare. There's allot of unwarranted hysteria over the Chinese military. They are only now producing their first aircraft carrier, they do not have the tech for a major amphibious assault, and they lack the long range power to interdict any major trade lines. Unfortunately for them, they are, at least at sea, surrounded by US allies; Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and to an extent Vietnam (Ironic isnt it?).
Despite their overwhelming numbers, they could not unleash their huge army on us unless they could dominate the Seas or the Skies, and we have a very well defined advantage in that respect.
Thaddeus McCotter should run for Michigan Governer. Executive experience.
And they could accomplish that by shooting down our satellites and engaging in a cyber attack to reduce our military effectiveness to something on par with theirs.
The Taiwan issue is more resolved than people think. Perhaps a precursor to what might be coming down the pike. They have been investing so much investment capital which was much smarter than invading it. Even though their equity markets are about to get whacked long term the semiconductor business will make everyone behave.
Which brings us back to the USA. The notion that China will let their currency float being an asinine prediction one might want to consider CHina's options. The US Consumer is DEAD. The Old School American Consumer. Buy junk until your closet is full and then throw it all away and do it again.
So keeping the peg to the dollar making their junk cheap is no longer good strategy. Domestic consumption can not fill the gap. So how do they grow? I know few currency traders who disagree that the yuan will rise if it were allowed to float feely.
Strong yuan. Weak Dollar. (later this year) Cheap US Housing. Get ready to write your rent checks to a China Man. They are poisoning the hell out of the country. A little clean air and water has its appeal.
And from one reliable source apparently the Chinese Government lifted restrictions from doing just that. 2010 was the year. South Korea in 2009.
China does not account for their military properly- most defense experts say they are underestimating their expense by a considerable margin. So remember one salient point:
Never believe a Communist regieme…
Something tells me that this event is about keeping their increasingly unemployed and irritable masses from learning what is going on outside of China. And less about what they can get from us.
It's not like they can't flush Southern California with Chinese Nationals to buy the very secrets they want from DNC handlers. It's how Bubba got elected the second time.
Which is why they don´t try to compete where we are strong but look for strategic weaknesses (networks, satellites). It is not necessary at this point to call China an enemy, but let´s not be naive. We don´t need another "failure of imagination".
Besides, it is difficult to compare military spending. They spend a lot less on human resources and they presumably don´t curtail sonar training to protect the whales, to give just two random examples. They are not building unarmed speedboats at the price of fully armed frigates (we do) and they aren´t obsessing about diversity when manning them (we do), to give two more.
Even in a conventional regional conflict, they would only have to find ways to turn it into a war of attrition to get what they want. We can lose as many men as in the entire Iraq war with the sinking of just 2-3 ships. One ship if it´s a carrier.
I wasn't too long ago that Google was caught/criticized for complying with China's demand that to get into the Chinese market Google had to censure the Internet. Google took some heat but complied with the demand basically stating that China was the customer and they were only complying with what the customer wanted.
Now that Google is entrenched in China, they're learning with who they got into bed with. Play with viper and you're going to get bitten.
They fight over a substance called Helium 3 – a power source for the future.
Snark along now.
Davi for President!
Google for Vice President!
Kristine, there is no mere "talk of redoing" Red Dawn – the movie was already filmed last year and is currently in post-production for a Thanksgiving weekend release, 10 months from now.
Amidst worsening financial crises worldwide and a sudden military crisis in Taiwan, Chinese troops invade the weakened USA to convert and remake Amerika into a post-capitalist re-educated workers' paradise, gradually receiving assistance from Russian GRU Spetsnaz to avenge the Cold War. Shot on location in Michigan, photos are available at reddawn2010.com
The Wolverine's lead guerilla hero (Patrick Swayze role) is Chris Hemsworth of last year's Star Trek reboot (and next year's Thor) who plays an ex-soldier recently returned from Iraq. The Jennifer Grey character is played by Adrianne Palicki ("Friday Night Lights"); the Lea Thompson character by Isabel Lucas (Transformers), the Powers Boothe character by Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen). The traitor kid is played by Tom Cruise's 15yo. son Connor (who played younger scenes of Will Smith in 7 Pounds). The C Thomas Howell kid will be 17yo Josh Hutcherson (Zathura, Bridge to Terabithia, Journey to the Center of the Earth) who says the movie is "red-white-and-blue" and compared the urban action to a real-life Call of Duty videogame. Will Yun Lee (who played villain in Pierce Brosnan's final 007) is the top Chinese officer presumably slotted for the Ron O'Neal equivalent.
The new Red Dawn's director coordinated stunts for Swordfish and the Bourne/Spiderman movies. The remake's writer did Red Eye and Disturbia. The cinematographer did Wanted and Transformers. Set designs by the people who did Legends of the Fall, Payback, I Am Legend and Tropic Thunder. Music by Brian Tyler who did Rambo, Eagle Eye and Stallone's new Expendables.
This movie is a considerable risk for Tom Cruise's floundering MGM studio, hoping to capitalize on Red State patriotic nostalgia despite a controversial non-PC story that leftists have already begun slamming as rabidly xenophobic exploitation. The fact that Red Dawn is due for release mere weeks after this fall's Tea Party election day, could become a stroke of marketing genius (a symbolic mirror of Avatar) or embarrassing chagrin. One thing is guaranteed – as a thought-provoking rarity in Hollywood, this movie will cement itself as an instant cult classic for Gen Y nostalgia, especially now in a hyper-polarized post-9/11 DailyKos Twitter world.
My main hope is that competent entertainment craftsmanship survives against the modern trend of rapid-edit shakey-cam confusion. Already the plain-jane insignia teaser poster seems somewhat lackluster and cheesy, since it plays safe and ignores any ominous creepy imagery such as the original 1984 visual of parachutes descending over a sleepy Midwestern town, nor any hint of a communist hammer-and-sickle. I wouldn't be surprised if tampering leaves this Red Dawn as an interesting fizzle, similar to MGM's Clinton-era attempt to relaunch Wargames as "Hackers" which launched the career of Angelina Jolie despite a similarly wimpy advertising campaign.
I think McCotter is awesome but you hit the nail on the head. The TV generation will never ever ever again elect a president that isn't photogenic. A damn shame, but there it is.
Ever hear about Nano-Weapons? I guess China has… here is an interesting read from Lev Navrozov http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/20...
Thank you Mr. Davi, great and timely article. China is also embarking on their plans of obtaining a Blue Sea Navy, updating its nuclear arsenal, and have conducted numerous tests to hack our computer technology. They are pursuing rocket technology, publicly they say to reach the moon, but the hottest topic in their military (that gets out) deals mainly with the knocking out American Satellites and using Electro-Magnetic-Pulse (which would wipe out electricity and computer systems) warfare. Their reasoning is Americans would be disarmed without centralized control, computer technology, or our computer reliant weapons systems. And believe it, China is teaming up again with Putin's Russia (Yes Children, the Russians see the fall of the Berlin Wall and our claims of winning the cold-war differently). Today it was announced that NASA is basically gonna stop reaching out to the Stars (Haiti and the Taliban need money Barry stole from the American people), but Russia announced last week they were going back to space full boar, and oh by the way, they are updating their Nuclear Arsenal also. While Obama plans on making us a communist state, China and Russia are looking at helping Obama out with Arms if necessary. Instead of pursueing a position of strength, which keeps us safe, we are sending our treasure to dictators, failed countries, and the Progressive/Socialist friends overseas. NO wonder there is talk of redoing "Red Dawn", we are going to face a similar situation again.
I highly doubt they have the capacity to cripple our Satellite fleet. We can, after all pull the same trick, being veterans in space based military tech.
I, not being involved with the entertainment industry, had heard of a remake, and thank you very much for the information. It sounds like it should be a great movie, though I am surprised that Tom Cruise is behind the effort. Oh and thanks for the heads up on the Thor movie. I have to admit I am a fan of well-done comic book movies.
So, in other words, it's sort of like Avatar, but without the blue people…..yet you think its the politics of your "story" that's keeping it from getting green-lit?
No offense, but what would be the reason for them to invade our country? Considering they make out ok economically flooding their cheap goods into our Wal-Marts, there would be no real logical reason to upset that applecart.
McCotter and Tkakic are right. We should pay attention to them and act to neutralize China's growing global influence.
Either that or prepare to become subject to Chinese pressure whenever they feel like applying it.
It will be death to our Republic by a thousand cuts, something I'm unwilling to allow.
I want to believe, but I just don't know if I am ready to trust Kolya. The Genii are always so coniving.
Just kidding. I can't help but wonder how much money has to do with it. We owe them a pile at this point. And as Dave Ramsey says, you are controlled by those you owe money to..
Well, if America took out China on earth, they couldn't send up reinforcements or supplies. The futuristic equivalent of rolling up their supply lines.
Perhaps it's just me, but I would expect some sort of crisis or situation on earth that would prevent the logical earth based war. Maybe some sort of computerized earth defense that automatically fires on any aggression. Along the lines of Gort in the original (and vastly superior) The Day The Earth Stood Still*.
*Which happens to be one of my all time favorite movies. It is so good I won't even sully it by watching Bill & Ted's excellent version.
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Assuming the estimate is 100% off, and China is spending twice what is thought, they would still be being outspent by a factor of 4 on an annual basis.
I agree, the fear of China is overrated. They have a GDP/Capita that was still lower than Pakistan's last time I looked. As technology/info/money spreads their society will begin come apart at the seams before it becomes a threat to the US. Our Federal budget is larger than the GDP of China, and I'm much more afraid of Democrats than China.
Yeah, they have 3 times our population but only about a 4th of our Economy. That said, they are improving but that's because they are becoming more westernized. While the Chinese Government remains oppressive on many fronts, in some respects they are doing good things, embracing Christianity and Capitalism across the board. I kinda wish that we could ditch the Europeans and ally with the Chinese now adays…
great article and posting RD — you are an inspiration
Well written and truly frightening. I had no idea…… Will spread the word as best I can.
No. China is winning in my script — until the Government turns to the private citizens with home brew spaceships and they save the moon from going Red. How's that?
Nothing like Avatar dude. Not even close.
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