Interesting read. I. Unrestricted War Unrestricted War: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America is a treatise for world domination written in 1999 by People’s Liberation Army Colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui. In order for China to become a dominant global power over the United States, the PLA emphasizes “The Final War over Resources”, must be won. The rest of the article.
very nice read.... and soo damn true...nice find Rocketspimp... just by looking at the world today you can see the war happening (kinda like the cold war).
Sure. You'll soon see more Chinese incursions in the Spratly's etc to secure potential oil resources. The problem for the Chinese is that sinking our economy sinks theirs, which is why they're trying to get the benefits of the WTO without meeting the subsequent concessions required for membership. In the end its shortsighted though. If we move to alternatives, it makes all this moot and not only makes the Middle East ridiculously unimportant (yeah, you can have your desert again, lol) but removes the huge burden from out economy (ie oil imports).
#1. Gold investment pimps (aka goldbugs) are all nuts, and have been since the dollar was removed from the gold standard and it became legal to own bullion again. #2. This seems to be a particularly whacky gold dealer's site. If you are looking for a more realistic perspective, I suggest http://www.kitco.com (mentioned on the 321gold site). They have regular columns by people like Paul van Eden who runs a very respectable gold-specific mutual fund, and others. They still have some somewhat whacky predictions, but they seem to be all fairly honest. #3. Gold investment in general is an area heavy with scammers. As an example, there was a company called Goldspring. The company currently is worth about $.19/share. About 6 months ago, it was just over a dollar. Making the rounds of the web boards was an article written by someone claiming all sorts of expertise in the practical aspects of gold mining. It was a shining review of the prospects for Goldspring (GSPG.OB) and was endlessly quoted by people pimping the company. This was enough to pique my interest in the company. A quick review of the company's website revealed that they were planning on using some new proprietary leaching technique to extract the ore from low grade ore. This was strike #1. A further search on http://groups.google.com revealed that the "expert" who wrote the oft-quoted article had in fact been dealing bullion online for six months. Before that, he'd been selling some "super revolutionary golf clubs" on line, and before that many other things. In the interim, I have encountered several other similar schemes. The lesson? Anything told by people involved in selling gold should be taken with a grain of salt. Their business thrives when bad things happen, and so it is profitable for them to scare you about the world. More specific to the article, consider looking for the volumes of information written in the past 6 months about the way in which rising oil costs are leading to novel or heretofore unprofitable extraction methods. I speak specifically of the volumes of oil shale in Canada which would make them a top 10 reserve resource if counted, and the recent development of deep-sea drilling at exponentially deeper depths than previous methods recently begun by Chevron-Texaco. The article makes reference to things such as "plans drawn up for Donald Rumsfeld", And covert PRK plans. A quick persusal of somewhere like http://www.globalsecurity.org reveals that plans of all nature are constantly being created by the US military. One document predicts the development of a new arab "caliph" who will unite all Arab countries against the US. Others detail bizare and outlandish plans. A good example of the latter would be this: Unless more tangable evidence of some such plan is being put into action, I hesitate to believe that it's anything more than idle millitary minds. We need oil. China needs oil. There are ways to get it for all sides that don't involve vast military conflict or economic warfare.
i don't feel like going in depth with anything but this article goes way overboard. china needs america as much as we need them. that's the bottom line and both sides are well aware of this.
The Chinese aren't stupid. Why would they build a 50 year old infrastructure when they have the opportunity to eschew that and become green within the next 30 years? They're exploring into pebble bed nuclear reactors and green housing. They also have all our mistakes on hand to plan a technologically modern infractructure. If peak oil comes within the next 5 years, like some doomsayers predict, then the conversion to hybrid vehicles will be more pronounced than the pathetic effort given right now. It will affect all of the world, and the only reason why China would be considered an enemy is because they're the only credible counterweight to the consumption we already demand. This article from the Economist alludes that China's economy might be in danger of overheating, and it's central banks have fallen victim to gross overlending found in other Asian nations. During the 80's, wasn't there some grumblings of a dirty war when the Japanese were buying up American real estate while their economy was outcompeting ours? Right now, the banks of Asian nations are caught in a form of financial terrorism where selling off some of their Dollar reserves will spark a panic and collapse the remaining value of their Dollar investments. A more prudent plan would've been to mix their investments in the Euro and other commodities, but now that the Dollar is plummeting, shifting to those investments would signal a lack of confidence. In order to protect their investments, their only recourse is to buy more into the dollar and hope that it will regain its lost value. Some "sneaky" action by China to begin selling off their Dollar reserves would provoke a panic that would dwarf the Asian financial crisis in the 90s. Those countries like Thailand, Japan, and China, are in serious need of banking reform, and their lifeline has been the stability of the dollar. There has been several predictions of a resource crunch, but technology and alternate materials have made those predictions moot. It'd be less costly for us to improve conservation and minimization, while driving people to form a green consciousness. Growing that field would generate new industries and jobs. I'm betting that China will plan to leap frog us without firing a single bullet. Our current mindset of overconsumption, maintaining status quo politics and driving grotesque millitary dominance is helping them do that.
