China continues to arm

From The Washington Post:

BEIJING, March 5 -- China announced Sunday that it will increase military spending at a sharply higher rate this year, budgeting a rise of nearly 18 percent, and a senior U.S. official immediately called for clarity on the planned expenditures.

Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte said at a news conference at the end of his maiden visit to Beijing in his new post that the Bush administration is dissatisfied with China's unwillingness to share such information. "We think it's important in our dialogue that we understand what China's plans and intentions are," he said.

Did FDR share that kind of information with Germany and Japan? I didn't think so.

The sooner Washington wakes up and realizes that as far as China is conserned the US is enemy number one the better. China has already internalized the fact that they will one day engage in a military conflict with the US. That is unless we grow so weak that we will not dare challenge them.

Either way they intend to be the world's premier superpower and they will do anything they must do to achieve that goal.