(plz warn me if this violate ppl)
People on the forum,
IT is my belief that for chian to be strong, lots of problems has to be solved. IN order to hava sustainable long lasting pwoerufl government, the corrupted governeemnt officials has to be kicked out. The peasnts are growing restless! and they're the backbone of ever country, give tham better LIFE. IT is the chiense governemnt's best interest that it is neccesary for the chiense government to take actions on the needed situations before Developing new technology for the benefit to chinese community
There's certainly nothing wrong with a country developing the means necessary to protect itself, and China has just as much right as any other to do so. The experience of the 19th and early 20th centuries have certainly left China with no doubts as to the potential consequences of negligence in these areas. That said, no country could seriously contemplate invading China now, without being willing to risk almost certain defeat (and that just wouldn't make sense).
But every government must not do at the serious expense of other people, especially its own people, and there are any number of countries that have done so and ruined their societies - revolt or disintegration are typical outcomes (USSR went from superpower to impoverished collection of independent and often mutually hostile countries in almost the blink of an eye). The rural restiveness in China is very serious, and the President has even gone so far as to give the government a warning about it in a speech last fall.
Personally, I think China should continue to invest heavily in dual-use technologies, and for the following reasons:
1. Not only does this approach continue to provide technologies and skills that are needed by the military, but it also ensures that the economy is producing technologies that will both ultimately pay for themselves and contribute to the continued growth in the economy.
2. Dual-use technologies lend themselves to continuous, incremental improvement and can do so for long periods of time, resulting in both an affordable R&D regime and progressive technological advancement for both civilian and military purposes. Straight military R&D is usually very expensive, and often such expense has to be renewed at a much later date in order to bring technologies back up to state-of-the-art.
This is often unavoidable, though, as the military has particular needs that are not found in the civilian world. Still the resort to dual-use technologies where reasonably possible can often free up funds elsewhere for the more specific and expensive demands of straight military R&D.
