China's third aircraft carrier takes shape, with ambitions to challenge U.S. naval dominance

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China’s third aircraft carrier takes shape, with ambitions to challenge U.S. naval dominance
The new vessel could be launched later this year and could be combat-ready by 2023.
By Gerry Shih

[brewens]

1. Kicking our ass with our money. If I were advising them, I'd say go balls out around

the world being the good guy. They are already doing some of that. Plus do everything possible to raise their peoples standard of living. They will need to make them the kind of consumer market we have been.

They have everything they need to be the dominant world power now. I can see them taking over a lot of the military and food aid we supply or used to. Nothing ever said that was ours to keep forever.

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2. China is behind a lot of civil engineering projects in Africa. NT

[brewens]

3. That's what I had in mind. Expect more if they have any sense. They can well afford it, courtesy of

us.

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4. It's not Bechtel building those dams. It's ... I don't know; the Chinese equivalent of Bechtel.

Railroads too, apparently with varying degrees of success.