Does China's Generals Want To Decleare War Against Everyone?

Chinese Generals Call For War With Just About Everyone -- Intercepts/Defense News

Veteran journalist and writer David Lague, now with Reuters in Hong Kong, has written in great detail in a new report, China’s Military Hawks Take The Offensive, that Chinese senior military officers are taking to expressing their calls for war against regional neighbors to the airwaves of Chinese Tv and radio, Internet blogs, and public speeches.

Lague looks at the recent speech by Chinese Lt. General Ren Haiquan at an October gathering of international military officers at Melbourne’s Crown Casino. The speech began nice enough, but quickly degenerated into a rant against Japan’s control of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. Japanese officers, including Army Lt. General Yoshiaki Nakagawa, left immediately after the speech.

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My Comment: This makes me wonder if the characters for Dr. Strangelove should have been Chinese.

Seriously .... for years I was of the opinion that China will not go to war and/or use it's military to enforce it's border claims. To do so would result in blow-back on every level .... political, economic, and military (in the form of a massive arms buildup in Asia).

But I will admit that there has been a shift in China's public announcements .... and in terms of the public altitude .... something that I noticed on my last visit to China a few months ago .... I was shocked to see how open many Chinese have become to using military force in asserting their claims in the Asian region. There is no fear .... and what is worse .... no concern at all on what would be the U.S. reaction to a possible aggressive China policy (and action) in Asia. Will China use it's military to enforce it's claims .... I still doubt that. But the groundwork is being laid where they are now actually thinking about it. In short .... they are now thinking of the unthinkable.