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In the book written Navarro at 2008, Navarro saw that China able to conquest one by one powerful countries slowly, and rise up in the midst of globalization as the ‘shop floor’.  The revival appears to dupe the international trade by using the slogan ‘China product’s price’ which is relatively cheap compared to any state.

The high of China economic growth is never experienced by other countries in the world.  This China’s  achievement is considered to be unfair with accusation that China have been practicing mercantilism, including export subsidies, copyright piracy, and various aspects  that were accused has become a crutch of  the cheapness of ‘China product’s prices’.

The interesting point is ; in the declining consumer purchasing power,China still actively seeking opportunities to sustain economic growth and expand the market network, including the search for new cooperation center to prop up domestic demand, especially new energy sources.

The China regionalization in the Asia-Pacific should provide interesting options, including the Beijing proposed idea, namely the need for new global currency which is a de facto replace the U.S. dollar as the international medium of exchange. China also actively begins to look for some ways progressively to give role for renminbi currency in the international arena.

It can not be avoided; China is a dominant force in Southeast Asia. This is a stage to make China as a global power equal U.S.  China showed its ambitions to become a locomotive of regional growth. This is the approach to making China as markets for regional countries as well as providers of investment and technology.

Incidentally in the middle of the current global recession, the rise of China and the sinking of the U.S. as a world power took place almost simultaneously. This presents a significant shift in the balance of world economic power as well as between both of state. We hope that the changing of the guard does not cause severe shocks that endanger economic growth and trade in everywhere.

Some of the world community may be amazed to see the China’s growth, which became a new development model in the world. This China’s model differs from the modernization that has ever done by western countries through the stages of colonization, and imperialism of the last century.

In context of regionalization, free trade, and China’s bilateral relations with countries in Asia such as Indonesia, China, seems just like an elephant which be there in the room suddenly. Not only that, many people who see that China as a threat to anyone, including U.S. financial that is scourged the deepest  the financial and economy crisis in this 21st century.  It can be ascertained that China will be able to transform the world fundamentally with greater strength when compared with the global power states during these two centuries.

Signals issued by China during this time always gave the impression that the authorities in Beijing want a resurrection of the PRC on this information technology era. It is also stressed, that intention will not cause drastic changes in the global order that had been driven by west.  But slowly but surely, the rise of China began to shift the position which has been controlled by the west.

The developed countries do not seem to confess the existence of China as the elephant in the room. The west countries evaluate that the globalization growth which is now driven by China, should follow universal norms, including the matter of ethics, humanity, democracy, human rights, freedom, and all other norms homage to liberalism. West considers impossible the principle of socialism-communism will be able to change the world order that was built during the last two centuries. But without realizing it, now began to happen remarkable shift in the global balance of power that occurs sotto voce, almost not even visible.

This phenomenon indicates the significant difference between the rise of China and the rise of Germany or Japan in the two world wars.  Resurrection of China is also different with the resurrection of the Soviet Union in the Cold War era.

Since the start of openness and reform in China’s economic and trade system in 1978, China struggle long and heavy enough to be accepted as the international community with all the privileges and an equal position with the other superpower countries.   As a new rising power, China is required to change and accept the international norms.

On the other hand, gradually many world’s analysts and politicians began to see China as a veiled threat and tell the world toward what is now referred to as ‘the coming china wars’, as the title of a book written by Peter Navarro in the year 2008.

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by Max Easterman

Dead at 17.

Geoff Gray was found dead on guard duty at the British Deepcut Army Barracks in Surrey. In the past 20 years, children younger than 16 have fought in at least 16 wars in 25 countries. AP/Wide World Photo

Training Begins at Age 16

At the Army Foundation College outside Harrogate, in Northern England, more than a thousand 16- and 17-year-old recruits are trained every year. More than two platoons of junior soldiers recently put through their paces in the gym gave up civilian life only 14 weeks ago. Some 860 recruits have signed up for a variety of reasons: the chance to travel, earn better pay than their friends working civilian jobs, and the opportunity to get a military education as well as a civilian one.

“It’s better than working in McDonald’s,” said one recruit.

There’s little evidence that the youngsters are joining up just to fight for Queen and Country, but you won’t find that in most British kids today. So the Army can’t afford to be too choosy if it hopes to pull in the 4,000 or so junior soldiers it needs every year. They can sign up as early as 15 3/4 and then begin training on their 16th birthday. Seventeen-year-olds fought in the Falklands War and Kosovo, but they’re no longer deployed on active duty until they’re 18.

“If we don’t start recruiting at this early age…they’ll be lost to us.”
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“…you get very naive teenagers getting hold of dangerous drugs and swallowing them in large quantities, just so they’ll be detected, it’s very, very dangerous.”
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‘It Gets Us a Better Army’

Major Dickie Hamzat, the company commander of these young recruits, said the Army couldn’t survive without them.

“I think it gets us a better army,” he said. “They can be molded, even though the decisions they have to make are quite daunting for them, initially…. If we don’t start recruiting at this early age, these people will get into long-term relationships, will look at other aspects of their life in a settled job…. They won’t look to the Army for a career, and they’ll be lost to us.”

The British Army has for years taken advantage of the fact that young working-class men and women prefer to get a job rather than an education. Critics say there is little difference in motive between what Britain and some Third World governments do: recruit teens because they’re easier to shape into fighters.

The Army rejects that argument, noting that parents must approve the child’s decision to sign up.

Colonel Mike von Bertele, the Army’s head of employment, said the British Army offers young people a way out of poverty and social deprivation. He argued that it would be irresponsible to leave willing 16-year-olds in the streets, where they’re more likely to cause trouble.

“I think it really stems from the switch to being an all-volunteer army and getting away from conscription … and so traditionally we’ve taken a large number of people into the Army, who are low educational achievers at school, who are effectively thrown out of school at the age of 16or even 15with very few employment prospects ahead of them,” von Bertele said. “We know that if we can get them young enough before they settle into low-paid work, for example, we can do a lot with them.”

Recruits include “low achievers” who have significant educational or social problems, von Bertele said.
“It’s one of the great things about the Army, it does take those people and it does an awful lot with them,” he said. “It gives them an education, it gives them a skill, it gives them a trade, and gives them a huge sense of self-worth.”

Tragedy in the Barracks

Critics say the Army promises junior soldiers education and job skills, but often doesn’t mention they may have to serve as long as 12 years if they take skills training courses. When the junior soldiers realize this, the consequences can be disastrous, according to Gwyn Gwyntopher, a counsellor with the soldiers’ advice center “At Ease.”

“I’ve had clients who’ve broken their own right arm … others have attempted suicide,” she said. “One quite common thing is, when they’re on leave, they get hold of drugs. They plant them in their own bed space. They’ve then gone out to a phone box and made an anonymous call to the Army, saying that they’ve got drugs, in the hope that the Army will kick them out. A lot of youngsters try to get hold of drugs just before they’re having a medical, knowing that it’ll be detected. And this is quite frightening, because where you get very naive teenagers getting hold of dangerous drugs and swallowing them in large quantities, just so they’ll be detected, it’s very, very dangerous.”

The crisis some junior soldiers find themselves in has been tragically highlighted at the Deepcut Barracks in Surrey, near London.

While sexual harassment is a problem throughout the Army, the junior soldiers have been particularly vulnerable at Deepcut. And no fewer than four juniors have been found shot dead there. The Army claims they’re all suicides, but their parents don’t think so. They attribute the deaths to a culture of bullying by fellow soldiers.
Geoff Gray was 17 when he was found dead on guard duty, a week after the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. He was shot twice through the head. In spite of that, the Army still claims it was suicide. His father, also called Geoff, lives in Hackney, East London, and believes his son would never have taken his own life.
Geoff and Diane Gray hold a picture of their son Geoff.

Suicide?

Geoff and Diane Gray of London hold a picture of their son Geoff, one of four soldiers to have died at the British Deepcut Army Barracks in Surrey. The Army says the recruitsincluding Gray who was shot twice in the headcommitted suicide. AP/Wide World Photo

“There’s Bullying and Sexual Harassment”
“We’ve got a situation where I think Deepcut is run on a two-tier level,” Gray said. “We’ve got the officers living in their own little world, and then we’ve got the noncommissioned officers who are actually running the camp. Some are out of control, and we’ve got a situation where there’s bullying and sexual harassment, and it isn’t being picked up by commissioned officers.

“If an officer had told Geoff to do something that wasn’t of the norm, he would say something. He would probably say ‘no sir, I can’t do that because of “A” or because of “B.” My real worry is that Geoff paid the ultimate price of bullying … that he didn’t accept what he was being told to do and he’s paid the price for it.”

The parents are demanding a full public inquiry into what happened at the Deepcut Barracks; the Army and the government have refused. They have, however, conceded that bullying and sexual harassment are rife in the British Army, and have now drawn up an action plan to monitor noncommissioned officers and stamp out these activities.
But the wider point is undeniable: junior soldiers in Britain face some of the same kinds of problems as child soldiers everywhere. If you give young people guns and live ammunition, sooner or later, they use them.

( _http://www . warchildren . org / young_guns.html )

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The World War II bunkers provide an in-sight depth into the amazing history that revolved around the most titanic conflict in the history, that shook the world then and with whose consequences the modern world is still living. The Russian World War II bunker is no more different. Deep in the mountains of Russia, there lies this unbelievably huge underground bunker.

One look at the bunker, it surely takes you into that era of turmoil which had witnessed only bloodshed. Getting into it is more like traveling on a time-machine. The hidden artillery behind these green covered walls display the strategic intelligence used by the army men then empowered by secret wall openings around the bunker. Though most of the area is in a dilapidated condition, the overall original structure is standing still firm with solid construction it was made with, retaining the originality of the place, even after years has passed by. ( _http:// planetoddity . com / russian-world-war-2-bunkers/ )