Strange bedfellows

Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. paid a four day visit to China and met with his counterpart of the PLA, Liang Guanglie, minister of foreign affairs Li Zhaoxing, minister of defense Cao Gangchuan and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) Guo Boxiong. According to news reports, the visit further improved the good relations between the armies of China and the U.S.

There can never be anything wrong with establishing and improving good relations. If direct links between the armies of two countries can in any way, in the near or distant future, prevent incidents, skirmishes, battles or even war, that is certainly a good thing.

Now, having said that, there is not much that the U.S. and Chinese armies have in common. The U.S. military has more than a hundred bases all over the world, China has none outside its own territory. The military budgets of China and the U.S. are incomparable. The U.S. military has invaded numerous countries in the past century, while China's military is solely focused on defending the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the People's Republic.

The U.S. army, navy, air force and marines are guilty of war crimes. War crimes to numerous to enumerate. And they are still actively preparing to commit more crimes against humanity. Telling lies, launching provocations and waiting for the day they can launch the next war of aggression, this time against the great and peaceful nation of Iran. Some are already thinking about the next war, maybe against China.

Did the Chinese generals rebuke their American counterparts for their crimes of aggression? Very unlikely... They only want good relations. Would they have want to have good relations with the Japanese Imperial Army, which slaughtered millions of Chinese? Certainly not. But they do want good relations with the U.S. Imperial Army, which has slaughtered millions of innocent civilians around the world from Vietnam to Iraq.

Unfortunately, the Chinese PLA has become unprincipled, no longer standing shoulder to shoulder with the peoples of the world against the American Empire.