Obama says US wants Chinese FDI, but East Asia needs AirSea Battle Concept too!
Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 1:08PM 
What's wrong with this picture? It comes from a WAPO article that says China is still wary of putting FDI in US, even though Obama claims he wants it for job creation.
Hmmmm.
Where to begin?
AirSea Battle Concept?
New national security strategic guidance that says US military force-sizing should be toward high-end warfare requirement in East Asia - namely China specifically?
Gosh, you wonder where the Chinese feel like we let national security fears trump economic opportunities.
I mean, shouldn't we be able to take their money AND target them for great-power war down the road? What's so weird about that? According to Kagan, everything you need to know about China and America is told in the fable about the frog and the scorpion.
This is not the world America made; these are merely the fears we prefer over change - and it's fairly pathetic.
Reader Comments (2)
I'm reminded of the song from the musical, Oklahoma, "The farmer and the cowman should be friends." Well, the Chinese and the Americans should be friends.
We and the Chinese both need to understand and treat each other better, more like friends: Trying harder not to scare or cheat each other like friends should. Excess military expenditures waste both time and money and are a very inefficient way to create wealth. Bombs and bullets do not cure the problems of hunger, disease, shelter or bad infrastructure. We each need to remember that each will feel the need to maintain a credible military.
Just remember, if you treat your friends and customers well and help them get rich then they can buy more of your stuff.
European history is the story of war. Going back before the invention of gunpowder. War after war. Misery and death and destruction. Trying to find the cause of those wars is frustrating and worrisome. You find yourself asking "What the hell was that all about?"
Now here we are in 2012. I read stories in the news where Admirals talk about "Focusing on the new threat." The new "threat"? In whose eyes?
Apparently the boondoggle of Homeland Security has not proved a lucrative enough ground for the military industrial complex boys. You can only send so many Haz Mat Suits to small town police departments and some of them have had the nerve to turn down armored cars and other ridiculous gadgets offered by the "If we don't spend it...we lose it" crowd in D.C.
The big military contractors miss those cold war profits. Time to build a military that can defeat one billion people. I hope that a thousand years from now some being isn't sitting in a nearby galaxy trying to figure out the white skinned and yellow skinned earthlings beat each other to death.