Chinese Military Weaponry Coloring Book for Kids! 中文 interpretors welcome

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kind of unusual, but if kids are going to be playing make believe PLA soldiers on the playground you might as well use it as a learning opportunity. The qiang1 抢 seems to the common denominator and means both spear and gun. so a shou qiang is a hand spear :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/sets/72157594376071750/

I just started learning mandarin so I'm concentrating on pronounciation issues right now. there might be some more odd sounding direct translations but it's a little beyond me at this point.

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OK Break out your tin foil hats and join me - but I truly believe Iran is not the next enemy but China.

Great link and I too would really like to know what they mean.

Thank you

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ZOOKRIDER - Could you go to the Flickr site and translate all of the pages (according to their numbers.... ) ?
 
RTFM, a few points for your consideration:

1. China has no interest in competing with the US on any battlefield other than the market place. China is a rapidly growing economic power house with nothing to gain by getting into a military pissing match with us and everything to lose. China is economically dependent on the US. Without us buying the stuff they make their economy would rapidly go down the drain.

2. China is rapidly becoming more like us, freedom is becoming more prevelant, and capitalism is becoming the norm. The more this trend continues, the less likely military conflict becomes.

3. While it's true that China's military is huge, it is far behind ours. Force projection is the name of the game, and China is incapable of of it. They have a huge standing army and no way to transport it anywhere. Their AF consists mostly old technology and under-trained pilots They have no blue water navy and the navy they do have is also undertrained, not to mention oriented towards coastal defense.

Chine is taking steps to improve this situation, but they are playing a massive game of catch-up and they are losing. Keep in mind that we outspend the rest of the world combined in defense. We are not exactly resting on our laurels. China knows all of this.

Our only true sticking point is Taiwan, and all rhetoric aside, I doubt that we are ready to go to war with China over Taiwan. Even if they did invade, which I doubt, we would park an aircraft carrier of the coast, make a lot of diplomatic noise, and that's about it. Just my two cents, ymmv.
 
RTFM said:
OK Break out your tin foil hats and join me - but I truly believe Iran is not the next enemy but China.
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I've heard this kind of thing and I tend to dismiss it as anxiety over China's rising international prominence. With the KMT elected in Taiwan recently things are looking good. They'll hammer out an agreement eventually. It's more likely they'd fight a border war with russia or india in which we would be much less involved than in the taiwan situation.
 
While it's true that China's military is huge, it is far behind ours. Force projection is the name of the game, and China is incapable of of it. They have a huge standing army and no way to transport it anywhere. Their AF consists mostly old technology and under-trained pilots They have no blue water navy and the navy they do have is also undertrained, not to mention oriented towards coastal defense.

Quantity has a quality of its own.

Force projection is sending many to south america as they have been doing. Plus turning all the cargo transports into troop transports.

All they have to do is get the stuff that is in south america together and roll into the great plains after they nuke a few cities here.

Ignoring China is folly! They hold alot of our worthless paper. Just look at how the oil price would drop when they removed the u.s. from the oil market.

If they took out the u.s. who would go after them? The French?
 
"Force projection is sending many to south america as they have been doing. Plus turning all the cargo transports into troop transports.

All they have to do is get the stuff that is in south america together and roll into the great plains after they nuke a few cities here.

Ignoring China is folly! They hold alot of our worthless paper. Just look at how the oil price would drop when they removed the u.s. from the oil market.

If they took out the u.s. who would go after them? The French?"

Two problems with this logic:

1. As I stated earlier, China has no real motive to go to war with us. Their economy is dependent on our consumption, and no amount of cheap oil is going to change that.

2. Assuming for a moment that China did want to attack us, they would never do it with nuclear weapons, because our counterstrike would wipe every major Chinese city off the map.

I could go on, but I won't because I believe that it's a silly argument. Do you honestly believe that China is going to invade the mainland US by marching up from South America through Mexico. To what end?

As to ignoring China, not only do I not ignore them, on the contrary, I get paid to pay attention to them, as do many, many others. The chinese military can't take a piss without us knowing about it.
 
We have never waged aggression against ANYONE for 5000 years. We will never wage aggression against anyone.

And before anyone says this, I am going to say it first: Tibet HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF CHINA, and it will always remain so.

Saying "Free Tibet" is like saying "Free Alaska or Free Hawaii", and we all know how ridiculous THAT sounds right?

As for the translations: "Shou qiuang" means "handgun". Shou means hand, and qiang means gun. Bu qiuang, means Rifle. Bu means infantry, qiang is gun, so rifle is technically called "infantry gun"
 
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ZOOKRIDER - Could you go to the Flickr site and translate all of the pages (according to their numbers.... ) ?

Perhaps this weekend, I'm at work at the moment.
 
rachen said:
I am going to say it first: Tibet HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF CHINA, and it will always remain so.
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I'm going to have to disagree. that same logic would compel china to invade many other lands as well. russia, mongolia, northern korea, northern vietnam, part of india, etc.

rachen said:
We have never waged aggression against ANYONE for 5000 years. We will never wage aggression against anyone.
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the korean war. oh, maybe china was just getting back it's integral korean territories :rolleyes:
china is a conglomeration of conquered lands, to say they have never fought of a war of aggression is nonsense. imagine the japanese winning WWII they could say they never fought a war of aggression because all their lands are japanese and part of them now.
 
Quantity has a quality of its own.

Force projection is sending many to south america as they have been doing. Plus turning all the cargo transports into troop transports.

All they have to do is get the stuff that is in south america together and roll into the great plains after they nuke a few cities here.

Ignoring China is folly! They hold alot of our worthless paper. Just look at how the oil price would drop when they removed the u.s. from the oil market.

If they took out the u.s. who would go after them? The French?
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If they nuke us, we nuke them. Plain and simple. And we have enough nukes to make the country of China a chapter in a history book. And even if they did load up a billion soldiers onto every transport ship they have and send them across the ocean, how long do you think it would take for them to get there? I guarantee we could sink 90+% of those ships before they even got halfway across. This isn't WWII. The oceans are not so big anymore. Harpoons and Tomahawks are not to be underestimated.
 
We have never waged aggression against ANYONE for 5000 years. We will never wage aggression against anyone.
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So China didn't attack Russian troops to kick of the 1969 border conflict, and didn't invade Vietnam in 1979?

The chinese military can't take a piss without us knowing about it.
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Of course, we find out about such things after they happen, like the Chinese cyber attacks on the Pentagon last year.
 
that same logic would compel china to invade many other lands as well. russia, mongolia, northern korea, northern vietnam, part of india, etc.
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They've been there and done that.
 
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wow, thats a lot of invasions that will be necessary. maybe china can buy some russian far east territories but most of it seems insane.
 
zoo, yes, thanks. I know that chi is a unit of measurement, but what is its relevance to a pistol?
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well each page has a hanzi character to practice but I didn't see the relation between it and the weapon.
 
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