Bill Gertz continues ringing the alarm bells toward a future that nobody wants to see but a future that seems inevitable. China is using it's growing economic power to fuel it's military ambitions. As with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan of the 1930's this growth carries with it it's very own unstoppable rational which will carry China to war in the same fashion that Germany and Japan found themselves in a place where the only logical and rational course of action was war. China is putting itself there with it's rhetoric and actions. We should start the arguments of why we didn't see it coming now since it will come and we will ignore the threat until the threat becomes a reality.
The combination of a vibrant centralized economy, growing military and increasingly fervent nationalism has transformed China into what many defense officials view as a fascist state.
"We may be seeing in China the first true fascist society on the model of Nazi Germany, where you have this incredible resource base in a commercial economy with strong nationalism, which the military was able to reach into and ramp up incredible production," a senior defense official said.
Posted by gilbert davis
at 2:27 PM EDT
