China Issues Protest Over US Report on Military

[NeonSamurai]

Originally Posted by Platapus

And what is wrong with China "projecting power" when the United States has been doing that for decades?

China also has a responsibility to ensure that their sea access remains.

Given their aggressiveness towards their neighbors (Tibet & Taiwan off the top of my head), and their need for resources. I fully expect China to start something in the next while. They are also already way beyond their neighbors militarily as it is. What they are doing is setting themselves up to be a threat to the western world (anti aircraft-carrier missiles, their own carriers, anti ship missiles, etc.). I am also concerned about any country that has the level of corruption that China does.

Anyhow their claims that they are doing all of this for purely defensive reasons is total hogwash.

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Personally, I can buy the anti-carrier missiles as defensive - they DO have a legitimate need to deter American carriers. The carrier breaks the back though - a training carrier is the worst answer because it just delays the answer.