RE: Trade debunking -- MIDRANGE-NONTECH

India's population passed up China late last year.

Of course there is a concern with the nukes and "saber rattling" with India
and Pakistan. But the real concern with China is if you have studied any of
their "doctrine" it calls for complete and utter world domination in very
ugly and clear terms. Of course they have gotten a lot better about not
putting a public face on this since tanks ran over protesters but don't for
a second think they have changed out of the public eye.

What really will show things is what they end up doing over Taiwan. That is
really heating up with us supplying them with advance weapons systems, etc.
Military experts doubt that China could launch any serious invasion force
over that stretch of water; their concern it the missile card that they
could play...

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jt
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 6:57 PM
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Trade debunking

Real briefly, as time has run out for now.  Russia is no longer communist.

China's a different story.  Personally, as far as geo-politics goes, India
scares me more (even tho it is very British).  Population is approaching
that of China.  And if it hasn't already surpassed it, it will soon.  (NOT
commenting on China's method of population growth, just that it is an
important element in any society.)  Look at the size and resources of India
compared to China.

They both have nukes, and war has traditionally been used as a method for a
government to bring an unruly populous (sp?) into one mind-set, over the
mellenia.  I've seen positive movement in the India/Pakistan situation
lately, so try to remain hopeful in that part of the world.  I missed out on
the final results, and implications, of the recent election in Taiwan, which
involved a lot of these same issues, 4 years later.


| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark Villa
| Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 2:15 PM

| -->I'm looking forward to when Indian, Chinese, and perhaps
| -->Russian, companies
| -->uproot the dominance of American "think-tank-consultancies"
|
| I sure am one that does not get it.
| In a past life I stayed deployed all the time to protect and
| defend against
| communist countries.
| Now my job is again being controlled by them.
|
| I see a pattern here.
| The difference is between being proactive and reactive and what kind of
| country are we?
|
| Here is a 2000 article that tells me that we should have woke up
| before the
| vote to make sure the voting machines worked.
| http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/03/15/p11s1.htm
|
| Mark Villa in Summerville SC



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