Wired : The U.S. military has begun a staged, five-year process that will see each of its three main stealth warplane types deployed to bases near China. When the deployments are complete in 2017, Air Force F-22s and B-2s and Marine Corps F-35s could all be within striking range of America’s biggest economic rival at the same time. With Beijing now testing its own radar-evading jet fighters — two different models, to be exact — the clock is counting down to a stealth warplane showdown over the Western Pacific.
WOW, so proud!
The US had no problems jumping into a war against guys with rocks in caves during the war in Afgan but as soon as Iran started researching nuclear power the states had all these issues with them and Iran said you so much is try to invade us you will be met with our military full force. The US military put their tail between their legs and scampered back home.
The US can't afford another big war.
It's China playing around, America has nothing against them. You want to showcase weapons? America will do it too, fair is fair.
I find it funny all the anti-American scrubs are still ignorant about everything America does. Go on keep bashing the country, because it just makes people laugh.
You think China will be any better? Look at how they treat their own country.... now imagine them in control! Anyone that wants China to be a super power has lost it... (Not saying you want that,just pointing it out)
Also I am moving from this going down hill country sooner or later.
I can still play ps4 and use google in sweden I am sure.
No, drone strikes have NOT killed 60,000 civilians in Pakistan, that's impossible.
I actually receive info on what the media channels broadcast abroad ( my uncles live in America, Canada etc ), i find most of it hilarious.
Every damn populated zone on this Earth right now has been in a fight one time or another AND has caused civilian casualties. I know it's the cool thing for everyone to bash America saying we fight for anything but don't turn a blind eye and be ignorant in thinking every other country is holding daisies and skipping around.
Everyone already forgot that China was trying to overinflate money to get an upper hand, Japan is in a slippery slope with Korea, everyone in the middle east is always fighting.
Turning a blind eye and painting one government evil. Despicable indeed.
We instigated Afghanistan uprising in 79. We instigated the breakup of the balkans. We gave our buddy Saddam the green light to attack iran then invade Kuwait then played white knight in desert storm.
We invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Pakistan. yes, pakistan. We bomb Somalia and yemen.
Now we antagonize China and stir up an arms race in the pacific, while funding a brutal civil war in Syria.
Who is turning the blind eye here?
I'm not defending the actions of my government nor am I trying to turn a blind eye to the fact that the USA government does some pretty fucked up shit...I live here and I had to deal with PIPA,SOPA,Patriot Act,getting full nude/grabbed if I want to get on an airplane and all this other crap so I know first hand that the USA government is messing up.
The thing is do you honestly believe if the USA actually did try for world peace that every single continent would actually go for it? What you think the Middle East would be right as rain right now without them fighting every day?
That's a huge assumption and a bad one at that...fighting is inevitable and when billion dollar companies control most of what happens in the world it's just a matter of time.
Don't just blame the USA blame everyone in this planets greed for how shitty it is.
you cant become one if your population lives in 80%+ poverty level. some people dont understand economics that well.
Superpower status is generally measured on your worldwide political influence, as a byproduct of your economical and military capability.
China's economy is now the second biggest in the world and rapidly growing. It is the world's largest exporter and the largest foreign owner of USA treasuries. It already has serious influence over the United States economically- you have to face up to that.
It'll rival the United States's size of economy within the next decade according to most experts projections.
Militarily China has a huge air force, and in the process of building their first stealth aircraft which caused much concern in the United States. They have the largest army in the world and a rapidly expanding Navy that will be blue water (the ability to sustain operations far from home waters) inside the next 10 years or so. Their nuclear capability is unquestioned. China also has a serious internet presence, with the worlds largest and most powerful cyber warfare divison.
The Navy is really STILL the key military focus of a superpower (as it has been for centuries now), because a blue water navy with an aircraft carrier task group allows a country to project its power far beyond its own waters, anywhere on the planet. Only a few Navies in the world could be considered full on blue water, generally the British navy, the French navy, and of course USA. A few others are marginal and growing.
China have their first genuinely active aircraft carrier as of this year, several large amphibious transports, dozens of large destroyer class escorts and many more vessels planned. America is worried, because China for the first time in its PRC history has the capability to project true menace in regions it might want to influence with the completion of their aircraft carrier. Regions like Japan and Taiwan, being the most obvious.
China are the next superpower, it is virtually inevitable. You'll wake up one day in the next twenty years and find that the United States will have to bow to China's demands.
In fact this sort of thing is already happening, because the course is locked. USA is already in decline since the end of the cold war. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to watch its influence eventually peter out and dwindle over the next 50 years much like the British empire.
The signs are all there, maybe people just refuse to see them.
It might be 30 years since the Soviet Union collapsed because the economy was poorly managed but China is blatantly here to stay. You have to take them seriously. A huge American flaw would be to dismiss China with classically perceived American arrogance. It'll be the downfall.
The point I wanted to make is this: Sure we've made mistakes but if you would rather live in a world where China is the sole super-power... you're fucking insane. China's human rights record from the past few decades is horrific. People like you and me would be rounded up and forced to work in labor camps or die in organ farms if China had their way. You doubt that? Ask that Falun Gong.
It's easy to buy into anti-US propaganda about "all we want is oil" but the truth is much more complicated than that. USA is like the father that everyone resents... but once they are gone you realize how much they actually did for you.
Burn a USA flag...do we care? Yeah we will see it on tv but nothing will happen to whoever did it.
Burn a Middle East flag..hell pick anyone and guarantee you they will start crying and wanting the heads of everyone.
Burn a Chinese flag..same thing.
We are very lax when it comes to foreign affairs that we don't have money thrown at us to be apart of and it's the reason everyone loves to bash the USA....IF China is able to surivive the bubble burst they will have soon then maybe they will be a superpower but right now it's still way to early to tell.
And btw lets take a look at how the USA behaves as a super power compared to Nazis, Imperial Japan, Russia, and China. All those countries slaughtered millions. Rounded up entire ethnicities and religions and exterminated them. Go the House of Terror in Budapest and find out about the nazis and soviets. Go to the gas chambers in poland and find out about the Nazis. Go to China and ask them how prisoners were treated under Japanese rule. I've read things that horrify me to this day. Now look at the USA... yes we make mistakes, but nothing like that. We are generally humane and well-intended.
You should be on your knees thanking the men who fought that wretched war. And yet here you are questioning whether or not they were men... from the safety and anonymity of a computer screen. Pathetic.
I abhor the use of nuclear weapons and pray it never happens again, but someone like you doesn't get to pass judgement on what was done in the name of freedom when the world was on the brink of darkness.
Lets get one thing straight, America doesnt need oil, they have reserves so huge that its more than 4 times the 1 trillion barrels of oil that were used in the last 100 years, and thats only in 2 oil fields, these two fields could produce close to 100,000 barrels of oil a day for the ext 30 years. America is more oil rich than most of the supposed oil nations. Its a political thing buying oil from abroad. america could be free from any burnden put upon them by OPEC in 15 years. So america does not invade countries for oil. thats the only point i make here just to stop the old they do it for oil argument
That's the idea, (I understand the need for preparation), but attack the country where most of our goods are produced??
THAT'S the way to U.S. economic prosperity...