>>>>>>Luckily everybody plays nice in the world.
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>>>>>>http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/20/railgun-laser-weapon-lose-senate-funding-face-uncertain-future/
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>>>>>>I guess if nothing else, the UN and NATO can protect us.
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>>>>>>Or we could buy advanced weapons from China after we give them the west coast to pay down some of our debt.
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>>>>>Remind me . How many carriers does China have ?
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>>>>Try this search..
>>>>http://www.google.com/search?q=china+aircraft+carrier&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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>>>The correct answer is 1 and thats not quite ready yet and I'd say there are considerable questions over what they have to put on it.. You have 11. Thats eleven times as many not a typo.
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>>http://www.economist.com/node/17493342
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>I wonder if the Chinese are publishing articles about US expansion in the Caribbean :-)
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>When nuclear powered Chinese carriers start appearing off the florida keys there may be cause for concern at the moment there is no comparison and the main protestors about Chinese expansion are the US military industrial complex and their spokespeople in government.

Perhaps China is buying out those old Russian aircraft carriers just to show peace-lovers of western hemisphere, how pointless aircraft carriers (all the way in China sea waters) really are! They will use those worn-out ships as demo targets to be destroyed in public by their latest line of anti-carrier missiles... <g>
Since shooting communication satellites down by laser beam is already fair game to them, and considering continued economic boom, perhaps in some near future there will be again some balance in military power between major super-powers.

To bad for all those oppressed nations of the world... Delivering Coca-Cola, Democracy & Human Rights to all corners of the world (while syphoning back oil & other stuff) will become much more difficult task. Not that this will stop western Democracy&HR addicts from always finding new/creative (overt&covert) ways to help those poor and oppressed, (eg. Libya) but that game will sure became much better leveled.