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[quote=CHRISWAUGHBJ,230849]"Health care and Military care are two different things.
And, of course, if we want these hospitals to be CHINESE"

What's the use of territorial integrity if you're people are poor, uneducated, and diseased? China will not get strong by building useless and irrelevant weapons, it'll get strong by building up its people. Priorities, please.

"1. Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
4.3% (China)."

How is this even remotely relevant to the discussion?

"I.e. I mean the aircraft carriers are useful for a GOOD ANSWER in case of INVADER'S PROBLEMS."

No. Aircraft carriers are for projecting power. If China built aircraft carriers, they would be used to protect China's supplies of energy and raw materials, most of which are shipped through the Indian Ocean, Straits of Malacca and the South China Sea, and therefore vulnerable to the Indian and US navies.

"not only for our national defense, but also to show our power !"

So China should behave like arrogant, bully boy America? Sorry, but that strategy would backfire and guaruntee China's isolation from the world. And don't try to pretend China doesn't need the world. Qianlong did that, and although China was strong under his reign, look what happened later on.
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