RE CHINA'S NAVAL AMBITIONS NYT EDITORIAL

This is the kind of pablum from the press, over decades, which has in part permitted the US to go blithely on this disastrous course.

It has hardly been merely a question of 'better diplomacy',

or a slight tweaking of an enlightened politico-economic-military strategy.

How do you think China got into a position to threaten Asian hegemony?

By 'fattening herself' up, much as China's Premier told Nixon in 1972, regarding how the US had already fattened Japan up, and how it was the US' problem back then, not China's, that Japan had gotten so bloated.

See federal record reference in this prior post:

 

By the laissez faire hand of the American market system itself, which they now have been gaming for a couple of decades at our expense, and openly against our interests, just as other Asian regimes like Japan had done before them.

The Coming Conflict With China (over 10 years old now) set out some of the history, but unfortunately, it was written by free traders themselves, who also, and more importantly, appear to be unacknowledged but eager Japan (China's enemy) panders to boot, who had an apparent interest in reaffirmed closer military ties with Japan against China.

The Coming War With Japan (older) was a similar book in some ways, but containing a lot more Asian and global naval strategic details. Chalmers Johnson thought it had been unwisely poo pood in the US at the time it had been published. Yet, a half million copies, according to Johnson, had been sold in Japan (! Were they just buying up copies, to take it off the American market?).

All this is kind of ridiculous really, in the larger post WW II scheme of things.

See prior posts re fattening things up, Japan, China, lazy fair, etc.

We must need a good Maverick diplomat or two to go over there and clear up all this. It's really smart to send ones in skirts.