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How China is replacing U.S. as Asia’s military titan

• ohaideredevs 8y ago
  "The effort includes signature shows of soft power: Xi’s multibillion-dollar “Belt and Road” program to build a global trade and infrastructure network with China at its center, and his “Made in China 2025” plan to turn the country into a high-tech manufacturing giant." I want to stress this (tangential) part - China really hopes to significantly expand trade routes around Asia, Europe, and Africa, and it's strange how little we hear about it.
  • mc32 8y ago
    The one belt one road is kind of like their Pan-American highway system, albeit with local debt but Chinese labor. It’s dual purpose, expansionist as well as economic.
  • arcticfox 8y ago
    I wonder how much physical 'stuff' manufacturing is going to matter in the future, even in high-tech. I feel like the overwhelming majority of value is being delivered from the software running on the high-tech devices, which can be written from anywhere.
  • ardy42 8y ago
    > I want to stress this (tangential) part - China really hopes to significantly expand trade routes around Asia, Europe, and Africa, and it's strange how little we hear about it. I don't think that's true: I've read at least a dozen articles in the NYT about it specifically in the past year alone. And I'd estimate at least half their articles about China mention it as background.
• baud147258 8y ago
  "preparations to recover Taiwan" Well, it look like Reuters (or just the author) has decided that China's claim on Taiwan is legitimate. Also, despite the multiple times the article mentions the military fatigues Xi wore at military parade and exercise, there's no photo of them, it seems at strange omission.