China Launches new Aircraft Carrier. Why?

China has been a very busy boy lately.   As we can see here they have gone and built themselves a new Aircraft carrier fashioned  after one of ours and built obviously with Technology they "borrowed" from America.   See here.

This big "boat" will be home ported out of Dalian in Liaoning Provence.  Reuters has reported on the deployment of this new aircraft carrier here.  But no one seems really concerned about it as a threat to our dominance over the seaways.   Reuters even hauled out one of their experts Andrew Erickson to reassure us everything would be OK.  Mr. Erickson does have an impressive resume but he seems a little too trusting and naive to me.  But what do I know.  I've only lived in in Asia for 10 years with 20 million homogenious Asians who are suspicious of all "foreigners".  I'm sure the Chinese just want this Aircraft Carrier for research.  We shouldn't give it a second thought.
But...When you go into the voting booth this November ask yourself what US Administration would you trust to counter this threat to our national security and position as leader of the free world?  Do you think you'd want to put our lives in the hands of the current administration that bows to foreign powers such as China, Japan, Egypt, Afghanistan, Syria, (Have I forgotten anyone?)  and that has turned over all of the Middle East to radical Islam.  Or maybe a republican administration might be better equipped.  Personally I'd feel safer in the hands of a republican administration that will reinvigorate our military and stand up to these threats. 

 Unrelated to this post on the New Chinese Aircraft carrier are some great photos of the oil spill clean up of Dalian harbor here at acidcow.

Little Boy Obama Meets A Real Man, China's Xi Jinping

We have to leave it up to the small town of  Muscatine in the State of Iowa to welcome back the future leader of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping.(photo courtesy of Chinadaily)

Vice President Xi Jinping, (pronounced, shee jin ping  Say it quickly) is 58 years old.  His family suffered under the purges during the cultural revolution.  He has a wealth of personal and professional experience navigating successfully in life as a politician,world leader and as a decent human being.  America should have paid more attention to his visit.  At least in Iowa they know who pays the bills and who to pay attention to.
  
This is a news story of significant and certainly historical consequences and it got, not surprisingly, little to no news coverage in America with the exception of the Wall Street Journal and a few other publications.   For the most part it was, shall we say, "over shadowed" by the more important coverage of Whitney Houston's death and the Obama administration and democrat party agenda to foist the red herring of abortion and birth control alarm on the American left.

I cringe at the thought that Vice President Xi had to suffer through these "grip and grin" photo sessions with this fool and illegitimate President.  (photo courtesy of Chinadaily)

An open letter to Vice President Xi,  "One day soon, maybe when you are President of China, we too will have a new president of your stature and intelligence.  Until then,  we all bow in shame and embarrassment that you must suffer with this idiot.  We, as citizens of the United States, do hereby promise to do better in selecting a leader, the next time. Respectfully yours, All right thinking people in America."

We are pleasantly surprised that Vice President Xi looks poised to become the next leader of China.  As we reported previously here at Naam Bplah we thought the next leader might be General Lin Yuan.  Had General Yuan become the next leader this would not have been good news for America.  Fortunately it looks like our contacts high within the Chinese military industrial complex were correct X is in and Y is out.  Why is X better for the USA than Y you may ask?   As described in the link above Y is old school and an old time Commie Military type and X is really a CINO (Commie In Name Only) who's family belongs to the "Prince Party".  The Pince Party are not militarily agressive people and they are focused on the domestic issues in China.  In fact I suspect they may all be closet capitalists.  But on top of all that why do we like X over Y?

Xi's wife is very attractive and famous in China.  More famous even than her husband.  She is none other than Peng Liyuan.

That's right gentlemen.  We like Xi and we love Xi's wife.  Now to put the cherry on top of the cake.  Here's the hot news.  They have a daughter.  She's hot too, of course, but more importantly she goes to Harvard.  Her name is Xi Mingze (习明泽).  She's 20 years old and her nick name is Xiao Muzi (小木子).  

Above in top photo we find her in blue or is that an aqua blouse with some of her girlfriends from Harvard.  Just above this caption she is in black in a more formal and somber pose.

We here at Naam Bplah welcome and applaud  Xi's rise to power.  We just hope those mushy liberal professors at Harvard don't fill little Xi Mingze head with too much liberal socialist propaganda.  And again, our apologies to her father for having to suffer Obama.

Finally, in honor of the New Year and Dragon's we have some never published before original artwork on Namm Bplah commemorating the New Year.  

Here we have a fanciful dragon ready to strike.

This may look familiar to some as it is an original sketch from the artwork of the 2012 Chinese Stamp.

That's it for today.  Keep your comments and contributions coming our staff of researchers and this artwork isn't cheap.  

Obama's New Defense Strategy: Poke a Stick In China's Eye And See What Happens

This new "Defense Strategy" of President Obama's is a deliberate provocation of the Chinese, as was his trip to Asia last month when he made his none too cute "We're Back" declaration.  

Last Month in Australia Obama was quoted as saying, “Let there be no doubt: in the Asia-Pacific in the 21st century, the United States of America is all in.” 

If there was doubt in anyone's mind in Beijing, about American intentions Obama dispelled that doubt and any room for reasoned diplomacy by elaborating that this is a “deliberate and strategic decision” America is “here to stay”.    What an affront to the Chinese!  We were hoping the State Department would let this new offensive go quietly away.   Unfortunately, that is not to be.  Obama's "Strategy" is a dangerous road to take.  If it is intended to assist him in his re election efforts it will seriously backfire.  Unfortunately, the consequence won't be just Obama's and the Democrat Party.  The outcome of this foreign policy fiasco  will fall squarely on the shoulders of America and it's allies.  This new policy is literal insanity. It would appear Obama is playing right into the hands of Hu Jintao and the Chinese military leaders who are just chomping at the bit for a fight.    An Article in the Economist in a much more nuanced and cautious fashion discusses the concerns many other's have about the manner in which Obama is flexing his muscles and apparently bullying for a fight with the Chinese.  

China hasn't issued a stamp with this ferocious a dragon
since 1878 (Photo Xinhua)

This is the year of the dragon and they must be deft dumb and blind over in foggy bottom to have missed the significance the Chinese attribute to this auspicious event.  The dragon was a symbol of  China's Imperial Power and today it is a not too subtle symbol of China's Military, Political and Economic power.  That China chose to reissue such a ferocious stamp this year is no coincidence.

We have to ask ourselves why has Obama picked this time to insult and bully a world power that is vastly superior to our own, certainly in it's own backyard.  Does anyone think the Chinese are going to stand idly by as Obama in his arrogance, asserts his "right" to "ensure China's peaceful rise to power".    The implied threat in that statement from Obama and the Clinton State Department is palpable.  The US, in the person of Obama, is saying, "We're going to come into China's sphere of influence and arbitrate and adjudicate any and all issues we decide have a national security interest to us."  Certainly, the United States should not cede it's position as a world power and it's interests but to do so in such an ignorant and arrogant fashion is inexcusable.

A bizarre thought occurs to us that given Obama's own love of Socialism and Marxism maybe his provocation of China is intended to give Hu and General Lin Yuan, (A possible successor to Hu) an excuse and license to go to war with America.

A Day That Will LIve In Infamy. Today Is That Day For Remembrance

Video of Rosevelt's famous,  "A Day That Will Live In Infamy" Speech.

Roosevelt was pissed.  America had been attacked by Japan without being provoked.  There was righteous indignation across America and this president knew how to exploit that anger to get us off our dead asses and into the fight.

Before and After Images of the attack on Pearl Harbor

This Photo is just a teaser for what lays in store at "The Atlantic" article.

This is a terrific photo essay by the Atlantic Magazine on the attack of Pearl Harbor.  The Atlantic   If you've ever been to Hawaii and know Hawaii you'll regret not clicking on this link and seeing these spectacular photos.


Reflection and Introspection
What we have to ask ourselves, is what were we doing and saying in 1937 when the Japanese were attacking China?   What did we do when we heard of the Rape of Nanjing?  We failed.  We did nothing.   Why?  After WWI  the liberal communist press in America fanned the flames of anti capitalism and blamed our involvement in WWI on greedy capitalists.  And secondly because the liberals were in charge in America, as they are now.  Liberal's and weak knee'd Republican's like Senator Nye a "Progressive Republican" and Democrats had passed  legislation called "neutrality acts" which prevented the president of the United States and those conservatives so inclined to support the Chinese, from doing anything.  As as Nation we denied what was happening and stood idly by and did nothing.  I can't watch any movie about what happened in Nanjing or read any story without getting violently ill and ashamed of what we didn't do.   And although I pity the Japanese today for some of the hardships that have befallen them I can never forget or forgive what they did to the Chinese at Nanjing or to the USA at Pearl Harbor or to the millions of others across Asia and elsewhere during the war. For example the Bataan Death March.  One can only wonder what causes the collective insanity of a culture that becomes hell bent on the complete destruction and annihilation of millions of men, women and children.  But I think we can safely say this seeds of this insanity rest squarely with Hirohito's dream to rule the world.

Here is a heart breaking section of a film on the Rape of Nanjing.

Images of the Rape of Nanjing can be seen here.  The Emperor of Japan, Hirohito personally led this disgusting genocide against Japan and yet at the end of the war he was never brought to trial by the United States or the World Court.  He lived until 1989 and his son, Emperor Akihito, succeeded him.  Akihito can be seen here with Obama kowtowing to him.

A president with a knowledge and sense of history, and Obama has neither, would never bow to the progeny of a genocidal war criminal, especially one who refuses to admit wrongdoing or apologize for Japan's actions and crimes against China.    Because of his ignorance of world history Obama is clueless why his own gesture's and behavior might dismay the Chinese who he is trying to engender favor with.  Or is he?  Maybe this is deliberate?   Some Japan pundits think Obama is deliberately trying to provoke the Chinese.  

In the mean time Japan and China are rumored to be planning a great rapproachmont as reported in the JapanFocus.  

Obama might do well to spend a little more time focused on challenging the Muslim Brotherhood and the world wide Radical Islamist threat than the Chinese who have no history of attacking or trying to conquer anyone outside of their immediate sphere of influence. Frank Gaffney addresses the threat of the Muslim Brotherhood here.  In the same manner that Washington ignored the threat of Japanese Imperialism in 1937 they are again ignoring and under estimating the threat of radical Islam today.

Surprisingly enough there are still some Chinese who remember how the United States finally put an end to Japan's aggression by dropping the atomic bombs "Little Boy" on Hiroshima and "Fat Man" on Nagasaki.  

You can read about their memories here in a post by Chinese American Iris Chang.  Ms Chang recounts the following:

My older aunt, my dah ahiee (big aunt), is actually very small. Her wrists are the size of napkin rings, as delicate as rice paper--and the clothes we pass around in our family do not fit her slight frame. She is shy, especially in English. And during one heated family discussion on the American bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a mid-peninsula Sizzler, she kept quiet. I had pointed out to her rather talkative husband that the U.S. government was still the only government that had dropped the atomic bomb on human beings. Hiroshima, I could maybe see, but Nagasaki too? At this point, my petite aunt spoke up. "I think they should have bombed the whole country!" she bellowed, and then lapsed back into silence.
It was the first time I realized how profoundly the Chinese were affected by World War II. Even then, I was not familiar with what had happened in the country of my mother's birth during the war.

In an interview Mr. Tom Hanks, the actor and cinema director once said of the American servicemen in WWII that they were racists.  Many veterans and conservatives were upset with this statement but in some respects I tend to agree with Mr. Hanks.  It took a kind of counter racism and hatred of the Japanese to defeat and annihilate the insanity that Hirohito had unleashed in his own people. This was no time for moral relativism.   I wish the reporter had been able to probe Mr. Hanks deeper on this issue.  I'd be very interested in what he really meant.  

There is a movement afoot to pressure the Japanese into making reparations, which while it may be deserved, has a prayers chance in hell of ever being granted.  A more gratifying and appropriate response would be if the American Chinese community organized an international day of thanks and gratitude to the United States of America for dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and putting a rapid end to the war.   But again, there is probably a prayer's chance in hell of that ever happening either.  We all have our dreams.  Mine would be to live in a world where America was honored, respected and gratitude given for our contributions instead of being vilified for our shortcomings.

Largest Holder of US Debt Next To The US Social Security System Is China

China -- Our Silent Partner.   I thought I was the fist one to coin the phrase in this context, "Our Silent Partner" but a quick Google search shows I'm not alone.  However, it seems exceedingly strange to me that our media pays such scant attention to China.  No I don't just mean news stories of Obama's trip to ASEAN member nations or the conflict over Taiwan or Korea or even over our trade conflict.  I find it exceedingly strange that we don't solicit Chinese opinions on every other mundane topic in the public consciousness.  I fear we insult them by our total lack of interest about who they are.

As much as I am reluctant to admit it we can't wipe our butts without using a Chinese product.  No...wait...that might be the one and only product they don't make for us.  I stand corrected.  


What the Chinese think and what they do, and feel and what their opinions are about world affairs should be front and center in our minds and in the American conscience.


Have you ever picked up a product Walmart, Kmart, Target, Lowes, or Home Depot  or virtually any store, except maybe the Made In America Store and wondered exactly, where in China it was made?  No?  I have and I imagine, with some embarrassment, trying to explain to some 50 year old Chinese assembly line factory working making 3000 Yuan a month why we buy the crap we buy from them.  I'm talking about the Toys and Dollar Store crap we buy.  

What must these people think sitting on an assembly line, day in and day out making little injection molded plastic birds that balance on your index finger?  I wonder if they ever dream of following one of those little plastic birds from their factory in Guangzhou Provence to the ultimate consumer in Walls, Mississippi or to a convenience store in up state New York?  If they could do that, what would they think?  Would they care?  Do they care?  I don't know but I think we should.


Don't get me wrong I can defend our other purchases.  The quality is OK and the products pretty much work as advertised.  I don't begrudge the Chinese making products and profits.  I wish them luck.  But I wish we hadn't totally abandoned our domestic  industrial capacity, and capabilities but we have.  And now as an American consumer there is noting to be done about it. 


We can thank our politicians and our unions for where we are.  But ultimately the responsibility as the voting public was ours and we failed to keep our eye on the ball.


There is nothing we can do about the fact that the Chinese make all our "stuff".  But there is something we can do about our ignorance about the Chinese people and there is something we can do about our callous disregard for their opinion's and ideas.  Our arrogance astounds me and our educational system and our media has failed us in this regard.  Education and a flood of information on China should be front and center in America.


More on this topic to follow.

President Obama's Asian "Charm Offensive"

Reuters is reporting Here that President Obama is headed to Aisa on a charm offensive.
A "Charm Offensive" are they serious?  I knew Chris Matthews felt a "thrill going up his leg" but do you really think the Chinese will have the same reaction as Mr Matthews?   Our nation is going through the worst economic crisis in modern time and the president is taking off for two weeks; to watch Basketball in San Deigo, play golf in Hawaii, visit with old friends in Indonesia, pray at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, play a few more rounds of golf, then on to China where he hopes Hu will take notice of his charm and not call in our markers.  The only thing that is going to "power the recovery" is if Obama isn't re-elected. 

Continued Flooding in Thailand's Major Industrial Areas Wreaks Havoc On Thai and ASEAN Economy, Report by China's CCTV News

I just updated this today, March 10, 2012.  The original video I posted here was missing as it appears China closed their YouTube Account and is posting things on their own servers now.  (That could be a whole new post here at Naam Bplah.  We'll have to do some more research into this issue.  However, I've recovered the video and reposted it.  If you have an interest in Thailand I highly recommend this news clip from our "friends"  (I say that lightly) in China.  However,  this is a fairly comprehensive report on the damage and challenges Thailand will face over the next two or three years.  I suspect we will see a dramatic drop in the value of the Thai Baht from it's current exchange rate of 30 Baht to the USD to possibly 40 to 45 Baht to the dollar.  What is revealing is that back in October 2011 when we were predicting a very sour Thai economy, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and others were much more optimistic.