OK,My mistake.
I mistranslated Japanese 人件費as”personnel wages”.It’s more”personnel cost”.That includes not only wages but also other living costs such as rations and housing.2007 Japanese Defense White Paper says “Personnel costs” consists
almost 44% of the anual defense budget,while purchasing of equipment consists about 19.1%.The rest is for fuel,rent,training costs etc.
http://www.clearing.mod.go.jp/hakusho_data/2007/2007/html/j2251100.html#j225300f

You are partially correct on pensions.Imperial Navy and Army(which was disbanded in 1945)pension comes from the budget of Ministry of Health,Labor and Welfare,not the Ministry of Defence.
However,pensions for those who served in JSDF and it’s former body National Police Reserve(1950-52)gets pension from the defense budget.

BTW,I was under the impression that equipment purchase
from abroad and research&development costs was outside the normal Chinese defense budget….

If nothing else, it would shut the Chinese up about the Chinese origin of the Japanese, Koreans, and Mongolians.

China asking for the ‘old’ territories back is akin to cranky Soviet vets saying that the lease is up on Alaska, and that it was only a long term loan, the tsar hawking Russian territory to pay his debts [true in part, of course]. While Europe fragments into smaller and smaller states, does China really think they can subsume more and more land without notice?

Looking to Uighurstan and Tibet, the answer must be yes.

I have heard some chinese claim the whole first island chain (Aleutians, through Japan and to Taiwan).

Many Chinese believe the myth that Japanese are actually Chinese sent by the Qin emperor to explore the eastern Islands. That is false.

Fenghuang may have spouted textbook answers, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t believe them. The CCP has done a highly effective job of encouraging nationalism among the youth.

Even factoring in extra perks of being in the military, it likely won’t exceed a third of total military spending which is I believe the percentage the U.S. allocates for personnel costs in it’s budget crunching.

Most of the experts now think China had surpassed Japan in the amount of defense budget.

Has Falung Gong killed more Chinese citizen than CCP? I think not.

And China was part of the Mongolian empire back in Yuan dynasty.

Water may be a bigger issue than oil in Central Asia. Even Nuclear reactors need water.

ironically, the steam behind such attention is really the abysmal situation at Beijing for over a decade, where the party leaders feel for themselves.

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as for press freedom in tibet? you will have to put it in lower priority, i am afraid.

tehag: Hard to tell, I have mixed feelings. DJ is right in that they are textbook party line answers, but China’s got in 80% right on economic, military, and political policy. I just wish the other 20%, namely freedom of press and environmental concerns, would get more attention.

Read this report about how 32 million have quit eh Ccp and its affiliated orgs in the last 4 years. Read the 9 Commentaries at http://ninecommentaries.com/
http://en.epochtimes.com/211,95,,1.html

And after reading the 9 Ping if you want to quit eh Ccp here is the site to do it on
http://declaration.epochtimes.com/

Read the report about the Chinese communist regime committing live forced organ harvesting to the peaceful Falun Gong practitioners and selling their organs for large money to the rich foreigners.
http://organharvestinvestigation.net/

Crimes Against Humanity and the Olympics cannot co-exist in China.

Some truths are intolerable
Our Governments know about it
Our media know about it
Human Rights organisations know about it
Now you know about it

Please do something now!!

Personally, I’ve never quite figured out what’s inherently wrong with colonization. Sure, it sucks, from a national pride angle, to be the one colonized, but it’s good for the colonizer. And, if the colonizer is much more technological advanced, the living standards for the locals will actually improve. The “colonization is evil” line is on I’ve always just taken as political sloganeering.

As an expansionist American, I’m holding out hope that enough rich Americans move to Baja California that we can take it someday. We need more coastline!

Tibet was not continuously “Chinese Territory” since to the Tang Dynasty. Funny you admit that though, because Tibet and Xinjiang were colonies and so you are admitting the PRC is still practicing colonialism (Proper term now is Internal Colonialism). So when the Europeans did it to you it was EVIL1!1!!1! but when you do it to others it is justified?

Second, on the Internal Colonialism (Specifically Xinjiang)the CCP has given up on trying to assimilate the population of turkic peoples there. It is interesting that they have come to the conclusion that no amount of economic development will mitigate the cultural divide. So what is the CCPs solution? Flood the “autonomous region” with Han Chinese. In 1949 the Han population was around 4%, now it is around 45+%. The irony………this is a very un-marxist conclusion to social issues that the “marxist” CCP is practicing.

More Hypocrisy from Bad China. It was never about social issues and the “people” with the Red Dynasty. It was just a bunch of nationalist Chinese who wanted to live like emperors and enslave many nations of peoples.

The underling motivation of every PRC action is to maintain the CCPs power in China.