China's Emergence as a Superpower (2015 onwards)

[slapout9]

I think the situation may be worse than it appears. China pursues positive goals, that is they pursue goals that make them stronger. The USA pursues negative goals, all we do is try to block, which only spends resources with no overall gain for the USA. The company I work for is moving out of China and into Cambodia because China no longer considers them a Strategic asset to the country. Not being forced more just left to whether on the vine so to speak, no direct confrontation, but a very clear indirect message. Our CEO says that is the China way. They pursue opportunities and simply starve problems of needed resources. There is a lesson there I think!

[AdamG]

They're playing chess. We're messing with checkers.

How China Is Building the Biggest Commercial-Military Empire in History

June 9, 2015
By Steve LeVine
Quartz

China’s outsized latticework of global infrastructure is said to be rooted in a fierce competitiveness learned from 19th-century America.

http://www.defenseone.com/politics/2...ref=d-dontmiss

[AdamG]

A Chinese billionaire is building one of the world’s largest engineering projects, a canal in Nicaragua that is three times the size of world’s largest, the Panama Canal, and is estimated to cost at least $50 billion. Of the many Chinese infrastructure projects spanning the globe, the new canal seems to make the least commercial sense.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/...nts/ar-AAbGonx

[davidbfpo]

The chart below features in a long NYT article, which interestingly uses Ecuador as its focus:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/bu...attached.html?

[davidbfpo]

Logistics matter and from Australia a short article reviewing what is happening. Rather oddly it concludes (in part) that:

The PLAN in 2015 has an adequate RAS force to support continuous far seas operations.

Link:http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/...pability.aspx?

[davidbfpo]

The Pentagon has confirmed the presence of five Chinese naval vessels in the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska, which Barack Obama is currently visiting.....This is the first time we have observed PLAN ships in the Bering Sea.” The vessels are in international waters near the Aleutians, a chain of islands that fan out from the Alaskan mainland. The boats comprise three combat ships, an amphibious ship and a replenishment vessel.

Link:http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...a-alaska-coast

[AdamG]

"U.S. officials were at a loss to explain the Chinese naval movements, which came as President Barack Obama was visiting Alaska and the Arctic region on a three-day trip to address climate change."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon...sea-1441216258

A small group of Chinese Navy ships showed up near Alaska earlier this week during President Obama’s visit to the northern state, mostly as a “we’re here” message. But then, as the Chinese People’s Liberation Army marched in a Beijing parade, someone simultaneously put out this completely nuts video of a naval attack on an American fleet, and on an American base that looks suspiciously like the one on the Japanese island of Okinawa.

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/thi...-it-1728674129