April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 41m
English
China has the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States and field disruptive military technologies that could over time offset traditional U.S. military advantages.
—U.S. Department of Defense
The godfather of Communism—Vladimir Lenin—once famously remarked that a capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with. As an ironic variation on that theme, America is now financing China’s massive military buildup by running equally massive trade deficits with China.
The primary “financiers” of China’s military buildup are American consumers who continue to load up on all things made in China. The resultant billions of “Wal-Mart dollars” sent off to China are now being used to ...
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