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| China says U.S. 'Great Wall' remark shows misunderstanding of history |
| 2016-07-01 |
| China on Thursday suggested the U.S. defense secretary brush up on his history after urging Beijing not to build a "Great Wall of self-isolation", saying the Great Wall was build to keep out invaders not as a hindrance to contact. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter made the remarks at a security dialogue in Singapore this month..."Those who have studied Chinese history all know that it [the Great Wall] was defensive," [Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman ] Wu told a regular monthly news briefing. "It was to keep out the cruel oppression of invaders." Current US political leaders seem to have a blind spot regarding protection against invasion. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #11 FYI see NETWORK54 WAFF > [Guardian.UK] TAIWAN ACCIDENTALLY FIRES [Anti-Naval = Carrier-Killer] MISSLE TOWARDS CHINA, HITTING TRAWLER. Missle holed + sank trawler but reportedly didn't blow it up, vessel captain killed. D *** NG IT, HOW DARE TAIWAN DO THAT, THATS NORTH KOREA'S = PUDGY'S JOB IN PRO-US ANTI-US US-CHINA WAR! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-07-01 22:03 |
| #10 Iff China can get 1/2 of the PACIFIC = WESTPAC, the new "Great Wall" will stem from the Okinawa Archipelago to Guam-CNMI to Belau, vee every ex-IJA-now-PLA air field + lagoon there-in. Apra + former AAFB, Yap, Tinian, Ulithi, + prob Chuuk/Truk. ITS FOR THE TOURISTS, YA KNOW! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-07-01 21:52 |
| #9 Re: Procopius2k We would have interesting cuisine, however. Somewhere in the scientific land of 'infinite universes'a Chinese 'America' exists... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2016-07-01 19:49 |
| #8 I wonder how it would have been had he pressed on beyond the Cape and met up with the Europeans? Why bother with Columbus, they'd have the market at their ports already. No Age of Exploration, no New World to colonize. Then you couldn't blame all those white devils for your failures and living in the 15th century. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-07-01 15:38 |
| #7 The destruction of Zheng He's fleet and of 15th-century China's blue water navy was more likely part of a Middle Kingdom cost-cutting effort. High level imperial eunuchs had better things to spend public money on. China could have had a thriving colony mining gold on the west coast of North America [which they now call the "beautiful kingdom/nation"] years before Columbus got lost on his search for China. I wonder how China of that era would have dealt with their native American cousins. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-07-01 11:58 |
| #6 So the trump wall will be glorious. It will have look outs and a casino where on he Mexican side they can hire maids, doormen, and hookers. On the us side tourists will come. Glorious. Just glorious |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2016-07-01 11:37 |
| #5 ..why just hammer companies, how about the American Chamber of Commerce that does their bidding. Free stuff, Free stuff, Free stuff! in this case labor. No, no, they don't want to repeal the 13th Amendment because that would mean they would have to provide for housing, food and clothing, not farm it off on the taxpayers under the guise of welfare. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-07-01 10:58 |
| #4 Perhap the Chinese don't understand that telephones and radios and planes and ships readily cross any wall no matter how large. There is no fear we'd suddenly forget what was on the other side of the wall. And besides, Trump said we'd put large glorious doors in the wall. I like the great wall as a metaphor because it's a nice looking tourist landmark rather than miles of hideous chain-link fence through the desert scrub. If you're gonna build it, build it with style. Having said that, if we hammer companies that hire illegals we'll find the illegals self-deport and a wall won't be needed. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-07-01 10:30 |
| #3 Congress passed the Secure Fence Act in 2006 "to keep out invaders not as a hindrance to contact" also. In 2015 Trump said he will build a wall also and all the DINOs and RINOs went ballistic. Go figure. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-07-01 07:53 |
| #2 not as a hindrance to contact That's why you destroyed the fleet of Zheng He, to seal up the Heavenly Kingdom from contact. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-07-01 07:46 |
| #1 Did Wu make those remarks in Tibet? Xinjiang perhaps? |
| Posted by: Cravirt Flusong7056 2016-07-01 03:49 |