Red China's road to conquering the Middle East
It's truly amazing to witness the ChiComms laying the ground work for a bid for global dominance in an almost total vacuum of news coverage.
It has not escaped Bill Sammon of the Washington Times, however:
[Red] China is building up military forces and setting up bases along sea lanes from the Middle East to project its power overseas and protect its oil shipments, according to a previously undisclosed internal report prepared for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
"[Red] China is building strategic relationships along the sea lanes from the Middle East to the South China Sea in ways that suggest defensive and offensive positioning to protect [Red] China's energy interests, but also to serve broad security objectives," said the report sponsored by the director, Net Assessment, who heads Mr. Rumsfeld's office on future-oriented strategies. [my emphasis]
"Protecting its oil shipments" looks, sounds, and smells like a sly cover for a far darker motivation. Just check out the details:
The internal report stated that [Red] China is adopting a "string of pearls" strategy of bases and diplomatic ties stretching from the Middle East to southern China that includes a new naval base under construction at the Pakistani port of Gwadar. Beijing already has set up electronic eavesdropping posts at Gwadar in the country's southwest corner, the part nearest the Persian Gulf. The post is monitoring ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Sea, the report said.
Pakistan is, purportedly, a U.S. ally in the war against Islamism, yet it's also facilitating ChiComm "eavesdropping posts" on its territory? In just what ship traffic is Beijing interested?
Other "pearls" in the sea-lane strategy include:
• Bangladesh: [Red] China is strengthening its ties to the government and building a container port facility at Chittagong. The [Red] Chinese are "seeking much more extensive naval and commercial access" in Bangladesh.
• Burma: [Red] China has developed close ties to the military regime in Rangoon and turned a nation wary of China into a "satellite" of Beijing close to the Strait of Malacca, through which 80% of China's imported oil passes.
To say nothing of a comparable percentage of Japan's oil, and South Korea's, and a not-inconsiderable portion of our own.
Beijing also is working on transforming Southeast Asia into its own version of the old Warsaw Pact:
•Cambodia: [Red] China signed a military agreement in November 2003 to provide training and equipment. Cambodia is helping Beijing build a railway line from southern China to the sea.
•South China Sea: [ChiComm] activities in the region are less about territorial claims than "protecting or denying the transit of tankers through the South China Sea," the report said. [my emphasis]
•Thailand: [Red] China is considering funding construction of a $20 billion canal across the Kra Isthmus that would allow ships to bypass the Strait of Malacca. The canal project would give China port facilities, warehouses and other infrastructure in Thailand aimed at enhancing [Red] Chinese influence in the region, the report said.
What's the punchline?
Many Pentagon analysts believe [Red] China's military buildup is taking place faster than earlier estimates, and that [Red] China will use its power to project force and undermine U.S. and regional security.
The U.S. military's Southern Command produced a similar classified report in the late 1990s that warned that [Red] China was seeking to use commercial port facilities around the world to control strategic "chokepoints." [my emphasis]
Including....
A [ChiComm] company with close ties to Beijing's communist rulers holds long-term leases on port facilities at either end of the Panama Canal. [my emphasis]
And what is the object of this imperialism and accompanying military buildup?
[Red] China believes the U.S. military will disrupt [Red] China's energy imports in any conflict over Taiwan, and sees the United States as an unpredictable country that violates others' sovereignty and wants to "encircle" [Red] China, the report said.
Sounds eerily like the old Soviet Union's "paranoia," doesn't it? But we know that when they used phrases like "wants to encircle," they really meant, "stop us from expanding." One can certainly see Beijing patiently building their geostrategic assets while we're involved with fighting World War IV, and when they believe the balance of forces is in their favor, making the long-anticipated move against Taiwan, not so much as a primary objective as bait to lure us into intervening. And once we had done so, they unleash their state of the art naval might and activate this "string of pearls" to close down the sealanes, cut us off from Middle East oil supplies, and perhaps even move forces into the Middle East itself in a challenge for world control.
Remember that in addition to their picket-fence building alluded to above, they've also got a de facto military alliance with Russia, and the EU is even more passionate about kissing ChiComm ass than are our own Sinofiles.
They say that generals are always fighting the last war. Our military leaders seem to be doing a bit better in fighting the current one. But one would like to hope that somebody in the Bush national security apparatus is looking ahead to the next one. Certainly the ChiComms are.
It has not escaped Bill Sammon of the Washington Times, however:
[Red] China is building up military forces and setting up bases along sea lanes from the Middle East to project its power overseas and protect its oil shipments, according to a previously undisclosed internal report prepared for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
"[Red] China is building strategic relationships along the sea lanes from the Middle East to the South China Sea in ways that suggest defensive and offensive positioning to protect [Red] China's energy interests, but also to serve broad security objectives," said the report sponsored by the director, Net Assessment, who heads Mr. Rumsfeld's office on future-oriented strategies. [my emphasis]
"Protecting its oil shipments" looks, sounds, and smells like a sly cover for a far darker motivation. Just check out the details:
The internal report stated that [Red] China is adopting a "string of pearls" strategy of bases and diplomatic ties stretching from the Middle East to southern China that includes a new naval base under construction at the Pakistani port of Gwadar. Beijing already has set up electronic eavesdropping posts at Gwadar in the country's southwest corner, the part nearest the Persian Gulf. The post is monitoring ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Sea, the report said.
Pakistan is, purportedly, a U.S. ally in the war against Islamism, yet it's also facilitating ChiComm "eavesdropping posts" on its territory? In just what ship traffic is Beijing interested?
Other "pearls" in the sea-lane strategy include:
• Bangladesh: [Red] China is strengthening its ties to the government and building a container port facility at Chittagong. The [Red] Chinese are "seeking much more extensive naval and commercial access" in Bangladesh.
• Burma: [Red] China has developed close ties to the military regime in Rangoon and turned a nation wary of China into a "satellite" of Beijing close to the Strait of Malacca, through which 80% of China's imported oil passes.
To say nothing of a comparable percentage of Japan's oil, and South Korea's, and a not-inconsiderable portion of our own.
Beijing also is working on transforming Southeast Asia into its own version of the old Warsaw Pact:
•Cambodia: [Red] China signed a military agreement in November 2003 to provide training and equipment. Cambodia is helping Beijing build a railway line from southern China to the sea.
•South China Sea: [ChiComm] activities in the region are less about territorial claims than "protecting or denying the transit of tankers through the South China Sea," the report said. [my emphasis]
•Thailand: [Red] China is considering funding construction of a $20 billion canal across the Kra Isthmus that would allow ships to bypass the Strait of Malacca. The canal project would give China port facilities, warehouses and other infrastructure in Thailand aimed at enhancing [Red] Chinese influence in the region, the report said.
What's the punchline?
Many Pentagon analysts believe [Red] China's military buildup is taking place faster than earlier estimates, and that [Red] China will use its power to project force and undermine U.S. and regional security.
The U.S. military's Southern Command produced a similar classified report in the late 1990s that warned that [Red] China was seeking to use commercial port facilities around the world to control strategic "chokepoints." [my emphasis]
Including....
A [ChiComm] company with close ties to Beijing's communist rulers holds long-term leases on port facilities at either end of the Panama Canal. [my emphasis]
And what is the object of this imperialism and accompanying military buildup?
[Red] China believes the U.S. military will disrupt [Red] China's energy imports in any conflict over Taiwan, and sees the United States as an unpredictable country that violates others' sovereignty and wants to "encircle" [Red] China, the report said.
Sounds eerily like the old Soviet Union's "paranoia," doesn't it? But we know that when they used phrases like "wants to encircle," they really meant, "stop us from expanding." One can certainly see Beijing patiently building their geostrategic assets while we're involved with fighting World War IV, and when they believe the balance of forces is in their favor, making the long-anticipated move against Taiwan, not so much as a primary objective as bait to lure us into intervening. And once we had done so, they unleash their state of the art naval might and activate this "string of pearls" to close down the sealanes, cut us off from Middle East oil supplies, and perhaps even move forces into the Middle East itself in a challenge for world control.
Remember that in addition to their picket-fence building alluded to above, they've also got a de facto military alliance with Russia, and the EU is even more passionate about kissing ChiComm ass than are our own Sinofiles.
They say that generals are always fighting the last war. Our military leaders seem to be doing a bit better in fighting the current one. But one would like to hope that somebody in the Bush national security apparatus is looking ahead to the next one. Certainly the ChiComms are.
posted by JASmius at 5:22 PM
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