The evidence says that America doesn’t want to share its global “Super Power” status with anyone. In U.S. Missiles Deployed Near China Send a Message, Time shows that the US mindset concerning the military and war stays strong.
However, it must be confusing to Americans when the Feds continue to justify spending heavily on defense at the same time that China cuts its defense spending in half, and Time asks Why Is China Slowing its Military Spending?
China has one aircraft carrier.
In fact, Time says, “China’s 2010 military budget, which is awaiting legislative approval, will be $78 billion. That would make it second only to the United States, which for 2010 has a total budget of $663.8 billion. U.S. spending is equivalent to 4.7% of the nation’s GDP, while China’s defense outlay equals about 1.5% of its estimated 2010 GDP.”
What’s wrong with the Chinese? Don’t they know America’s military industrial partnership “needs” a bad cop to scare the American people to justify maintaining the most expensive and powerful military on the earth?
Too bad most Americans still don’t live on farms. When America was rural, the people were not as warlike. Before Pearl Harbor was bombed, most Americans didn’t want anything to do with war. The same situation happened in World War I when almost half of the people lived on farms and in small communities, which is sort of like China today with 700 million living in rural areas.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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