East Asia allies doubt U.S. could win war with China

This is not a cheery prospect, but unfortunately not without validity. This is not out of line with a series of reports from Bill Gertz in the DC Times last summer.

The real tragedy is that the Chinese missile forces moved into the big league thanks to the Clinton-Loral sell-out, and their Naval forces are seriously upgrading with technology produced by the ChiCom spy ring recently busted in L.A., so they would be killing us with our own technology!

The overwhelming assessment by Asian officials, diplomats and analysts is that the U.S. military simply cannot defeat China. It has been an assessment relayed to U.S. government officials over the past few months by countries such as Australia, Japan and South Korea. This comes as President Bush wraps up a visit to Asia, in which he sought to strengthen U.S. ties with key allies in the region.

The obvious answer is probably politically undoable: reinforcing the US military to a more realistic level, but with no signs of the administration being willing to bite the bullet, chances of this are currently between slim and none. As far as the Donks – well, that’s a lost cause.

Is it any wonder that Japan is moving towards remilitarization?