Thursday, December 2, 2010

Admiral Michael Mullen

Dear Admiral,

I read with interest some of your comments on the Chinese military, which was published in the local newspaper, The Straits Times (3 Dec 2010).

Here are some of your comments: "Raising a military to provide for the country's own security, its own needs, that's fine. That's what we do. But some of the specific capabilities are very clearly focused and pointed at the U.S of America. They are anti-access capabilities. Talk to me about why you are developing these capabilities, other than thinking that we are the enemy...Those are the kinds of discussions I can't have right now because I'm not sitting down with them."

It is fine to raise a military but it is not fine to point the military at the U.S.
[However, it is fine for the U.S. to raise a military and point it at any country it likes and deems fit?]
Hey, it is your imagination that China's military is pointing at you.

Why is it that some of the capabilities are pointed at the U.S.?
Hey, the Chinese military is raised to protect China and not aimed specially at anyone.

What would you do if, one day in the near future, the Chinese sends its aircraft carrier groups near to the U.S. shorelines, close to Washington D.C.? or New York?

As to sitting down and having a discussion with you, please ask yourself whether there is any point having any session with a dreamer like you in the first place?

So when the USSR sends missiles to Cuba, it is not ok but it is ok for the U.S. to sell missles and other weapons to Taiwan?
Is selling weapons to Taiwan not an act of aggression against China, and hence make you an enemy of China? You must be really dense to think otherwise.

You are absurd, to say the least.