<p>I'm not going to try to wade to deep into this argument but College your explanation of China's military build-up is laughable.</p>
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Onto your question on why China is rapidly building its military forces. China is currently undergoing its own industrial revolution right now, as there have been huge improvements in technology. With a rapidly improving industry comes a rapidly improving military. China isn't necessarily adding another 100,000 troops to its army, it's improving its military technology.
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<p>You did not address at all WHY China is building up it's military, instead you make some absurd claim as to the fact that China is undergoing a industrial revolution with the result that the military would naturally upgrade.</p>
<p>China is busy buying existing military technology from primarily European and Russian sources in an attempt to raise their force levels to those equal of the United States. Many of their purchases have gone towards weapon systems that are intended to counter the United States ability to protect Taiwan in case of a cross-strait invasion. In addition, China has embarked on an expansion of it's Navy in a direct effort to produce a capability to strike across the Taiwan Straight.</p>
<p>So don't try to sell me any nonsense about an industrial revolution.</p>