China has 50 million children in military training camps
By estherlou
@estherlou (5015)
United States
September 5, 2007 10:54pm CST
The compulsory training takes place at camps run by the People’s Liberation Army and is shrouded in secrecy. Young people in the camps are taught self-defense and study advanced weaponry, including American Black Hawk helicopters and aircraft carriers. US has noticed:
#China's military spending has increased 17.8% this year. # The Pentagon said this week that computer hackers gained access to an e-mail system in the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The report came after the Financial Times newspaper quoted officials as saying that Chinese army hackers broke into a Defense Department network in June and removed data.
# The German magazine Der Spiegel recently reported that Chinese hackers had also invaded computers at four German ministries, infecting them with spy programs. German officials reportedly believed the hackers could be associated with the People’s Liberation Army.
#A report from the Defense Intelligence Agency disclosed that the Chinese army was operating more than 2,000 front companies inside the U.S. as of early 2002. One such company, China United Airlines, is actually owned by the People’s Liberation Army Air Force.
#According to a June report in the Washington Times, China is supplying the Taliban with advanced weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, to be used to kill Americans.
And we are still on good trade relations with this country?
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/China_Youth_military/2007/09/05/29986.html?s=al&promo_code=3982-1
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@mizrae (587)
• United States
6 Sep 07
As a matter of fact, our president recently met with the president of China at a meeting in Australia (I think) According to the news report all they talked about was the products imported to the US from China, and of course the Chinese president claims 90 plus percent of its products ARE safe.
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
6 Sep 07
If the Chinese president claimed 90% of their products are safe, he is indeed a very unknowledgeable person. Any American company whose products were 90% safe would be broke and litigated out of business in almost no time.
90% safe! Wow! Imagine an automaker who only had 9 out of 10 of their products manufactured so as to be safe. Would you buy one of their cars?
The Chinese president is in his own words telling us not to buy Chinese products.
@mamasan34 (6518)
• United States
6 Sep 07
That's pretty scary honestly. It gives us pause to worry that is for sure. I certainly would after reading this article. We have our hands full right now in Iraq and Iran, this is a big concern tat is for sure.
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@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
6 Sep 07
Combine the information you've just provided with the fact that China's one child policy is leading to a surplus of men and a shortage of women and you have an almost surefire projection of a war in the making. In 20 more years China will have many millions more men than women. War is a traditional way to dispose of excess male population.
@theprogamer (10532)
• United States
6 Sep 07
I read about this earlier and it does seem suspicious to say the least. Not only that, China is more gutzy interfering with worldwide politics including the US. There was already a Chinagate of the 90s (military and defense offerings to China as well as financial backing for certain US candidates), a current Chinagate (economic relations both surface and underground/illegal) and now even more details are surfacing on both accounts.
Its not surprising China is doing it this way. They sense weakness in the world and they can almost feel a chance to make a major strike. They also have the motives too with recent health, environmental, safety debacles involving China and trade. Plus with the hackers Germany can say it was PLA but China can act innocent since the internet is basically anonymous. China could also do this with any other type of attack as long as they can find the right cabal manpower and connections (most likely both already exist and are biding time).
