Gen. Dunford pops in

[CQB]

General Joe Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs met with Marines in Darwin recently. Please excuse the PDF as the article online is behind a paywall.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

@CQB

Thanks for taking the time to convert paywall article to PDF.

 

[Gunz]

Thanks for posting this, @CQB .

I think the bottom line in the contest for hegemony in the Pacific is ideological. The PRC is still a retrictive society. By contrast, the United States is much less. Who do you throw your lot in with? Communists or a Democracy?

 

[CQB]

It’s a little bit more than that & it’s an easy choice to make on both sides in that context. China loves to purchase infrastructure & have done quite well in the Western Pacific doing so.

 

[Gunz]

It’s a little bit more than that & it’s an easy choice to make on both sides in that context. China loves to purchase infrastructure & have done quite well in the Western Pacific doing so.

Right...but the bags of cash they carry around is weaponizing capital. They don't give a fuck about human rights, but they've got the money to do just about anything they want. They are in Africa and Central and South America in a big way.

They have the base in Djibouti, the port in Sri Lanka (for 99 years)...and any deal cut by Chinese "businessmen" is in the best interests of the People's Liberation Army or Navy.

I blame my country for a lot of this...for the naive trade deals Bill Clinton made in the mistaken belief that opening the PRC's doors to trade with the West would also open the PRC's doors to democracy. We've pumped trillions into China's coffers; and they'll turn it against us in Xi's quest to make his country the one true Superpower.

 

[CQB]

Quite. But it’s more in the interest of the CCP. Xi has just been made President for life today. 3,000 delegates, 2 no votes, 3 abstentions.

 

[Kraut783]

2 no votes, 3 abstentions....5 victims of violent crime found dead today......

 

[CQB]

Learless Feeders haven’t worked out too well over time for China, so we’ll see how it goes.