Sixty years in power and the only thing the commies has to show is military prowess. Sad.
Compared with the Times, your comment is much less in provocation and retardation, but pathetic to the same degree.
China reaches out on 60th anniversary - Times Online
The parade is meant to consummate the transformation of the PLA from a revolutionary guerrilla movement into a sophisticated military using smart weapons and space-based surveillance systems.
“It is an extraordinary achievement,” said Liang Guanglie, the defence minister, in an interview published on his ministry’s website.
Extraordinary measures to repress any opposition to the party at the end of its sixth decade in power suggest that despite having 2.3m men under arms, the leadership still fears foes at home.
Does suppression of dissidents need cruise missiles? Need KJ-200? Need DFs? If this writer doesn’t have mental problem, who would have it?
Jay, one of the US founding fathers, said in his Federalist Papers No. 2 ( Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence For the Independent Journal.):
Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers. It is well worthy of consideration therefore, whether it would conduce more to the interest of the people of America that they should, to all general purposes, be one nation, under one federal government, or that they should divide themselves into separate confederacies, and give to the head of each the same kind of powers which they are advised to place in one national government.
In the paper No 3, Jay continued with the same subject:
Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their SAFETY seems to be the first. The SAFETY of the people doubtless has relation to a great variety of circumstances and considerations, and consequently affords great latitude to those who wish to define it precisely and comprehensively.
At present I mean only to consider it as it respects security for the preservation of peace and tranquility, as well as against dangers from FOREIGN ARMS AND INFLUENCE, as from dangers of the LIKE KIND arising from domestic causes. As the former of these comes first in order, it is proper it should be the first discussed. Let us therefore proceed to examine whether the people are not right in their opinion that a cordial Union, under an efficient national government, affords them the best security that can be devised against HOSTILITIES from abroad.
China today faces many foreign influence and threats. Without a full deterrence, China will never be free from the “dangers from FOREIGN ARMS AND INFLUENCE, as from dangers of the LIKE KIND arising from domestic causes.”
One of today’s foreign influences is that voting is a panacea. Look at the same clownish article in the Times:
A lone anonymous citizen responded on the website of Hong Kong’s Phoenix TV, which is read by millions on the mainland: “Since you are so great, glorious and correct, why don’t you dare give the people the vote?”
The foreign influence is obvious palpable: vote = great and correct.
Many countries in the world allow people to vote, but they are still subject to foreign arms and influences. They can’t preserve their peace and tranquility at home, and their people’s daily life is poor, desparate…
Conclusion?
Today’s PLA is still too week: in the East it can’t deter the separation of Taiwan, in the South, it can’t keep islands from being encroached, in the West ZN still in dispute…
China must build a much stronger army, which “
affords them the best security that can be devised against HOSTILITIES from abroad”, perhaps at par with that of USA. Then China will be free from foreign influence, be more confident, and their people will have more say on their own affairs.
Believe me or not, only then will Sino-US relationship be improved to an unprecedented height.