Inside China: PLA says war with U.S. imminent

[AmuroRay]

Inside China: PLA says war with U.S. imminent

A Chinese general recently offered an alarming assessment that a future conflict with the United States is coming as a result of U.S. “containment” policies.

The release last week of a transcribed speech by People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Maj. Gen. Peng Guangqian revealed the harsh words toward the United States and those in China he regards as muddle-headed peacenik intellectuals.

Gen. Peng, a well-known PLA strategist, has a hawkish reputation and a large following in China. The speech was given in December at an event hosted by Xinhua news agency in Beijing. An abbreviated transcript was published June 21 on the Chinese military website Leiting, or Thunder.

“The United States has been exhausting all its resources to establish a strategic containment system specifically targeting China,” Gen. Peng said.”The contradictions between China and the United States are structural, not to be changed by any individual, whether it is G.H.W. Bush, G.W. Bush or Barack Obama, it will not make a difference to these contradictions.”

The general specifically criticized two views prevalent among some analysts in Beijing and Washington that a U.S.-China military conflict will not happen anytime soon because of mutual economic dependency between the two nations. He also attacked the popular view that the U.S.-China relationship can’t be too good but can’t be too bad, either.

Gen. Peng criticized what he sees as an all-out endeavor by the United States to encircle China. “Some people keep saying that we have friends all over the world. But I have used a magnifying glass trying to find some friendly countries on a world map. And I kept looking and looking, but failed to find any except a containment circle around us longer than the Great Wall of China!” Gen. Peng said.

“The reason why China does not have an especially strong sense of crisis is that we chant ‘peace and harmony’ everywhere in the world, which was originally intended for the world to hear, but such chanting has left us kidding ourselves and paralyzed. Now no one is willing to think about war,” he said.

ORDER TO DISCLOSE ASSETS

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently demanded that all PLA senior officials disclose their personal assets, a measure that appears aimed at curbing rampant corruption within the communist military hierarchy, according to the official military newspaper PLA Daily.

The Communist Party’s ultimate regime support comes from the People’s Liberation Army. Founding CCP dictator Mao Zedong famously coined the phrase, “Political power comes from the barrel of a gun.”

Many analysts think this is a key reason why the PLA is notorious for having extraordinary access to privileges and special perks denied to most Chinese and that this necessarily led to rampant corruption within the PLA.

The PLA at one time operated tens of thousands of businesses, easily evading Chinese customs and tax authorities in large-scale smuggling and tax-evasion schemes. Corruption within the PLA was so widespread that in the late 1990s, the ruling Politburo stepped in and banned the PLA from operating any businesses.

But loopholes to operating military-run businesses remain and are growing.

In 2006, the Chinese navy’s second in command, Vice Adm. Wang Shouye, was found to have kept five mistresses and embezzled public funds estimated to be worth millions of dollars.

In February, Lt. Gen. Gu Junshan, deputy chief of the PLA’s general logistics department, was purged after it was discovered he was linked to illicit real estate schemes and for what state media called “self-aggrandizement.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...r-us-imminent/

[ToisanBrah]

neither country is trigger happy enough to start a conflict.

[Need2bulk4life]

would be bad for both countries I don't see why they would do it

[Ice-9]

Wouldn't be a war......it'd be a beat-down.
Regardless, not gonna happen.

[Brakh]

inb4: sh!ts gonna hit the fan misc!

[AcEXBOX]

This happens like three times a month with different countries... just another bluff.

[Ace Thedics]

Eh, they can go fuk themselves.


Brb using Soviet era weapons and knock offs. Strong bluff China.

[Gomer_Pyle]

If you think China will throw away all their hard work in social, economic and tech progression just to go to war with the U.S. you are utterly retarded.

[kratosbrah]

Everybody talks ****, cluck like a bunch of chickens, war this, war that, BITCH BRING IT MERICA WE WILL ****ING BRING THE WORLD TO ITS KNEES IF NEED BE.

You thought Nazi Germany was bad?

Imagine a hundred Nazi Germany's.

'Merica.

[AmuroRay]

If you think China will throw away all their hard work in social, economic and tech progression just to go to war with the U.S. you are utterly retarded.

Wouldnt be all out war like a ww3.

Just a skirmish in the seas/islands near china. probably over the spartlys or south china seas or even taiwan.

The usa would lose every single war that i listed.Rand corp has even said as much.

[sopexc]

Everybody talks ****, cluck like a bunch of chickens, war this, war that, BITCH BRING IT MERICA WE WILL ****ING BRING THE WORLD TO ITS KNEES IF NEED BE.

You thought Nazi Germany was bad?

Imagine a hundred Nazi Germany's.

'Merica.

when u think of nazi germany u go o damn they were hardcore, when u think america its hard to go o damn they bad ass when all their leaders are pussies, the soldiers yes but the politicians no.....def not.....

[chlaxman]

Oh look it's this **** again

[jarrydm]

Wouldnt be all out war like a ww3.

Just a skirmish in the seas/islands near china. probably over the spartlys or south china seas or even taiwan.

The usa would lose every single war that i listed.Rand corp has even said as much.

[cannadian]

Wouldnt be all out war like a ww3.

Just a skirmish in the seas/islands near china. probably over the spartlys or south china seas or even taiwan.

The usa would lose every single war that i listed.Rand corp has even said as much.

Do you have ANY idea how powerful the US navy/airforce is brah?

looooool

[jarrydm]

when u think of nazi germany u go o damn they were hardcore, when u think america its hard to go o damn they bad ass when all their leaders are pussies, the soldiers yes but the politicians no.....def not.....

[nick187]

WW3 ?

I doubt it.

Both have nukes, but only one has used them before.

[DNClay]

Saw source was Washington Times. Didn't take seriously.

[niahmas]

Lol you guys are delusional if you think a war with China will be easy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chosin_Reservoir

[Shortfuze]

Chinese military haven't been involved in a war since 1979 when they got their assess handed to them by the Vietnamese. The US in contrast has seen a lot more military action. For all its vaunted huge military, Chinese army is still untested and not as experienced.

[usersignup]

here we go again about how US would kick China's ass in a war. let's be cereal. when one US soldier dies, 10 tv channels broadcast, 100 websites report, 1000 brothers cry and a million mothers weep.

the Chinese don't give a sh*t how many of their soldiers die. for real.

[byoushin]

neither country is trigger happy enough to start a conflict.

uh...

notsureifsrs

US been firing the trigger nonstop in the middle east for quite some time now.

Chinese military haven't been involved in a war since 1979 when they got their assess handed to them by the Vietnamese.

kind of like the US did in Vietnam? ...

[TrustMeBrahs]

I, for one, welcome our Oriental overlords.

Not srs, it's time to gtfo out of the USA.

[tk217]

Lol you guys are delusional if you think a war with China will be easy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chosin_Reservoir

If America is going to war with China I'd accept nothing less than nuclear holocaust.

[ace1981]

The usa would lose every single war that i listed.Rand corp has even said as much.

R unicorns real?

[TGDWN]

Not going to happen. If it did, China would get curb stomped.

Most of the world would align themselves with us, save for the Middle East, some South American countries and Russia.

[klemme]

If the us went total war on China... The war would be over before the first bullet was fired


We've nuked the yellow man before nomsayin?

[CommonPheasant]

Neither country has anything to gain from a war with one another.

[nohomobrah]

This happens like three times a month with different countries... just another bluff.

Strong this, in my college history textbook itan example of chinese generals in the 90's casually talking about dropping nukes on LA if they felt it was needed, the head of military and intimidation is not totally in charge of the country, especially in this case.

[loilfad08]

phucking oath bring it on, sick of these wars in the Middle East

[wowbob396]

mainly china will suffer, we are one of their largest consumers and they would be retarded to start a war with us.