Even China Wonders if It Can Avoid a Great Power War With America
Great power competition is back and it may not result in a major war, but it has got leaders in Washington and Beijing a bit nervous.
Key point: The Cold War was full of accidents and miscommunications that nearly ended in bloodshed. Can America and China avoid a terrible fate?
It has become quite common to use historical analogies to describe the complex Sino-American relationship. At the centenary of the First World War, the comparison between China’s rise and that of Wilhelmine Germany has been widely made. However, a path-breaking 2012
The One Flaw In China s Military Rise: No Combat Experience
Beijing likes to talk a big talk, but a good military needs experience in addition to modern equipment and training.
Key point: Crack troops aren t called that for nothing. Here is why real-life experience with the stress of war matters for winning future fights.
A new assessment of the Chinese military by a reputable U.S. think tank concludes, in effect, that “the emperor has no clothes.” The authors of this report seem to be wary lest “… the US might be inclined to assume China has more sway in international affairs than its actual combat power merits.” This analysis claims to be more authoritative, based in part on an examination of “human capital” intangibles, which goes well beyond the rote “bean-counting” of simple force-structure analysis to look at command structures, health and recruiting, education, training, as well as corruption and civil-military relations.
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Nuclear War, Green New Deal Two Interconnected Threats to Mankind
Feb. 16 , 2021 (EIRNS) This news service, together with the Schiller Institute headed by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, have mounted a global mobilization to identify two existential threats to humanity being openly advocated by governments in the trans-Atlantic region the Green New Deal and the drive for nuclear confrontation against Russia and China. Over the past 24 hours, major responses to those dangers from leading figures in the United States have been issued, which must be given mass circulation among people of good will internationally.
First, just days after the release of the EIR Special Report, “The Great Leap Backward LaRouche Exposes the Green New Deal,” the warning in that report concerning the deadly result of dependence on the primitive energy forms of solar and wind was demonstrated in the form of the devastation in Texas and other states due to a polar vortex, a phen