Sale of Aircraft Carrier to China

Sale of Aircraft Carrier to China

According to the U.S. Navy Times website on January 4, 2008, there are many members of Congress who feel that the U.S. aircraft carrier current force structure is the product of the cold war, not suitable for the new international situation. 11 aircraft carriers are obviously too many! The USA may need only 7 aircraft carriers.This figure is more than the total number owned by other nations. The cost for an aircraft carrier is from 4 to 10 billion USD and the cost to operate and maintain a heavy aircraft carrier fleet is about 1.5billion per year. If a wise decision could be made by the Congress to reduce the fleet of aircraft carriers from 11 to 7 and the remaining of 4 carriers offer to sell to China, the government will not only get an extra income of billions of dollar but could also save a lot of military spending. There are also the following benefits:

1. There is no permanent enemy in the world! The United States has established diplomatic relation with China 30 years ago. So far it has proven to turn hostility into friendship. When China is in need of their own aircraft carrier the United States should take the initiative step to offer to China to buy over these 4 carriers. If the terms and conditions are reasonable, China may be pleased to accept the offer with many goodwill in return.

2. Let China own USA made aircraft carriers. The U.S. may have less worry that China has some unknown and better aircraft carrier from somewhere else. Through this friendly deal, China may be able to safe guard the world with United States and save costs for America doing it alone.

3. To delay China's pace of self-made aircraft carrier development and to avoid the China- made aircraft carrier selling to other countries. And breaking the dominance of U.S. aircraft carrier in the world.

4. If the two super power countries in the world can have friendly cooperation in the military field instead of being confrontational, America will be able to save a lot of money from military spending. It's very good for U.S. government and the people.

The general public may think this suggestion is a kind of joke. However it is worthwhile for the new President to take this into consideration as he wants to change US policy.

多余航母卖给中国

据美国海军时报网站2008年1月4日援引来自国会的文件称：有很多国会议员认为美国目前的航母部队结构是冷战的产物，不适合新的国际形势，11艘航母显然太过多了！……这个数字比目前其他国家拥有的航母数量的总和还多，美国或许只需要7艘航母。
美国每艘航母的造价由几十亿美元到100亿美元以上，重型航母编队1年的运行、维护费用为15亿美元，明智的国会如果决定将其拥有的航母队减为7艘，而将剩余的4艘售卖给中国，不但将有几百亿美元的额外收入、减少大量的军事开支，还有下列几点好处：
1、世界上没有永久的敌国，中美建交迄今30年，已证明可以化敌为友，而当中国正需要建造自己航母的时候，主动协助中国拥有寻求中的航母，肯定会得到中国相当友好的回报。
2、让中国拥有性能一清二楚的航母，不但不必担心中国可能拥有比自己性能更好的航母，也可以通过友好合作，分担美国单独维护世界和平的任务。
3、可以延缓中国自造航母的发展速度，避免中国太快把性能好、造价便宜的航母卖给其他国家，打破了美国航母的独大局面。
4、两个大国如果在军事上能够友好合作，不搞对抗，共同维护世界和平，减少美国的军事开销，对美国政府和人民都有好处。
这个主张一般人可能认为是在开玩笑？但很值得要改变美国政策的新总统加以考虑的。

The Strange Buyers

THE STRANGE BUYERS !
Normally,every buyer would look for better prices and bettergoods to buy, sometimes even try very hard to bargain for special discounts ! But the U.S. government is on the contrary constantly criticisingthat Chinais using subsidies and reduce export tax policies in order to export larger
quantity of low cost products to United States. The reasons given are the impact on its local production, causing unemployment and make the trade with China in deficit position.However, the America seem to be the only strange buyers in the world that donot want to buy the cheap and good products from China. Instead of complaining that the selling prices of Chinese products in U.S. market are too low and warning that if China does not change its trading policy, the U.S. government will complain to the W.T.O. and levy higher import duty tax on Chinese imported goods.In fact the America products can not compete with Chinese low cost products because the Americans living standard is much higher than the Chinese. As a developing country China's lab our cost is much lower than the America, therefore the production costs could be much lower than in America.It is logical. The high rate of U.S. unemployment is due to high technology and automation and not cause by the Chinese imported products. Regarding the trading deficit it is due to the fact America is not selling high-tech equipment to China. If the United States is determined to impose the higher import duty on Chinese's products it will go against the rules of W.T.O and will also raise the cost of living of the many U.S. citizens…as well as damaging the good relationship of both country. As such clever American leaders should think twice about it.ee below:



奇怪买家！

一个正常的人，买东西的时候肯定会选择物美价廉的产品，有时为了捡便宜，还要与物主大力杀价、斤斤计较，以便达到折扣优惠的目的。
但美国政府，对物美价廉的中国入口货却不断指责，认为中国是采用津贴及减税出口政策，才能够把大量出口货以低廉的价格卖到美国。影响其国产货的市场，造成工人失业，形成中美贸易不平衡。
美国是世界上少有的奇怪买家，有便宜的货不买，反而埋怨中国货卖得太便宜！还对中国提出警告，如果不改变这种贸易政策，美国政府将向世贸投诉，及要对中国入口货征收繁重入口税。
美国货不敌中国货，是因为美国人民生活水平高，生产成本也跟着昂贵，中国是发展中国家，工资低廉，所以能够生产物美价廉的产品，这是很自然的趋势。
美国失业率高，是因为高科技化和自动化生产的结果，不是中国的便宜货所造成的，对中国贸易入超是因为美国自私和怕输，不肯将高科技产品卖给中国的原因。
如果美国决意对中国入口货征收繁重进口税，不但违背了世贸协约，也将会提高人民的生活费用，使一般平民的生活会雪上加霜，抵制中国货入口也将会影响中美的友好关系，对美国是有害无利的，聪明的美国领导人应该三思而后行之。