Super Typhoon Haiyan: China Offers $100,000 To The Philippines, Attracts Criticism
Source: IBT
After the Philippines was hit by the devastating Typhoon Haiyan, China begrudgingly sent just $100,000 in aid to Manilla, compared to the millions other nations have offered to help the Southeast Asian nation in need.
Last week, Super Typhoon Haiyan tore through central Philippines and killed 10,000 people in the city of Tacloban alone. The tragedy has prompted an outpouring of international assistance. Japan is sending $10 million in aid along with an emergency relief team, while Australia is donating $9.6 million, Reuters reported. The United States is sending $20 million in immediate aid, and an aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, which will carry about 5,000 sailors and more than 80 aircraft to the Philippines to participate in relief efforts along with four other U.S. Navy ships.
China, in sharp contrast, has only promised $100,000 in aid with another $100,000 through the Chinese Red Cross. The world’s second largest economy has been at odds with the Philippines due to territorial disputes in the energy-rich South China Sea. Last year, ships from the two nations were involved in a standoff, and the Philippines later angered China further by taking the issue to the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea.
Last September, the Philippines offered $200,000 to help Chinese victims affected by major earthquakes in southwestern China, which caused the death of 80 and injured more than 800 others, according to the Global Nation, a Filipino news agency.
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- You'll never be a SuperPower if you continue to act like a dick. You only get to act like a dick after you become a SuperPower. Duh.
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- China is no where close to becoming a superpower. And given their leadership, the greed and the corruption, it doesn't appear that they ever will.
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A superpower is a state with a dominant position in the international system which has the ability to influence events and its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests. A superpower is traditionally considered to be a step higher than a great power.
Alice Lyman Miller (Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School) defines a superpower as "a country that has the capacity to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world, and sometimes, in more than one region of the globe at a time, and so may plausibly attain the status of global hegemony."
It was a term first applied to the Great British Empire, the United States of America and the Soviet Union. Following World War II, the British Empire's superpower status transferred to the United States; the United States and the Soviet Union came to be generally regarded as the two superpowers, and confronted each other in the Cold War.
After the Cold War, only the United States appears to fulfill the criteria of being considered a world superpower. The term "Emerging Superpower" has been applied by scholars to the possibility that the People's Republic of China could soon emerge as a superpower on par with the United States or at least at par with the USA-USSR phase.
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All of those other superlatives that you mention matter little if there's no one to buy those manufactured goods from them. Which is pretty much where the world's economy (AKA: the Shitter) is presently. And as we become even more technologically advanced, even those jobs won't be there. Which explains the need for their troops sizes.
You see, they need those troops levels to stay HIGH in order to keep those 1.3 billion people in-line. China had over 600 riots last year against the corruption and mayhem their leaders have wrought. And seem to be on pace to beat that this year.
On top of that, this faux Superpower has decided to look into building underground to escape the air pollution and filth they're responsible for creating above ground. How about that, huh? As it now stands they have separate breathing facilities and and specialized air handling machines for party offices. And receive special army controlled farm food of clean unpolluted, organic vegetables and the best meats and seafoods the Yuan can buy --but only for upper party members, however. The haves and the have-nots are everywhere.
No, China's huge troop levels (as in our case as well), is for their own people. However, in our case, we, as the only True Superpower have the ability to use our troops both as a mercenary force in order to steal other country's resources (see Iraq, Afghanistan, New World, etc.), as well as a tool of suppression of liberties (threatened or real) at home.
- To make sure the sheeple keep watching reality teevee and drinking their Diet Cokes........and here's another.
- A 30 to 1 ratio in nukes and actual deliverable vehicles makes a helluva difference as well......
