The Middle Front
Forgot about Fulan Gong and the implicit challenge they present to the Butchers of Beijing?
Well, the Butchers haven’t forgotten, says StratFor:
Members of the Falun Gong spiritual group have hacked into Chinese TV broadcasts in six different cities over the past six months. This tactic attempts to counter the government’s anti-Falun Gong propaganda, and it may signal the start of a new phase in the battle between the group and the government — one that could pose a bigger threat to the Communist Party if the country’s urban unemployed rise up in support of the group.
And China’s urban unemployed — a number much, much larger than the entire employed American workforce — increasess daily.
Remember that next time China tries to get frisky. Also remember that gives us a trump card to play.
How exactly does a large number of urban unemployed people in an incredibly xenophobic country help us? Take a look at news coverage in China during the ‘spy-plane’ standoff if you want to see how the country will rally to the leadership. The commies may be SOB’s, but their Chinese SOB’s. Which makes them preferrable to anyone non-Chinese, no matter how benevolent. You think OBL has an obsession with ancient history because of the Crusades, these guys are still pissed about foreign conquests from the time of Jesus. The superiority/inferiority complex at work in the Orient is incredibly scary. I don’t think the Gongers want an end to communism, just an end to the killing of their brothers in all matters Falun.
Because it’s difficult to invade your neighbors when you need your army to A) put down the protesters, and B) put down the half of the army on the side of the protesters.
No, you just say that your neighbors are the cause of your problems or the allies of the cause of your problems and you have more people than you will ever need to invade the entire Orient.
The Asian mindset is much more subservient to the dictates of the elites than we are in the west. We tell Chomsky to shut the hell up, over there they would never do that publicly, no matter how much they disagree with an opinion. You sound like you expect the Chi-Coms to fall like Eastern Europe, through popular uprisings. If war were declared, or some trumped up national emergency occured any and all anger and rage would be redirected towards the external enemy, especially if it were the Japan or Taiwan. The entire country remembers the Rape of Nanking and would love to pay that debt back, with interest. The higher the political unrest and pressure on the regime gets, the more likely we are to see an aggressive and beligerent China, not less. Even with only half the men in their military, the still got a fucking huge army to run around Asia with. The can’t project that power much beyond Japan, but can do some serious damage inside their sphere of influence.