Feng at ID highlights two new bits of data on China's aircraft carrier program. The first is that the Chinese have carried out significant work on the ex-Varyag, the Kuznetsov class carrier that they purchased several years ago and that has been the source of...
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I'm sure that the Chinese just arrived independently at the idea of having a folding-wing version of the Su-27:Russia is eyeing China following media reports that an unlicensed variant of.
This should prove remarkably interesting; a Zhao Ziyang recorded memoir of his CCP tenure during the 1980s has been smuggled out of China and is being published:But in this long,.
But I don't understand; why are the dolphins fighting on behalf of the Communists? Have the Chinese been training dolphins for combat? Do we face a dolphin gap? Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant...
MRG forwarded me this piece this morning. I had seen it previously and intended to refrain from comment, but... you know. In general, it's best not to get one's defense.
Heh. Perhaps Hu Jintao should consider forming an exploratory committee for the 2012 Republican primary...According to Gallup, Communist, melamine exporting, beating us in the Olympics China is now more popular.
Galrahn and I sat down last week and diavlogged about all things maritime. He's our discussion of the "rise" of Chinese naval power:We also talk about piracy, Robert Gates, and public relations. Check it out.
Via Galrahn, a PLAN anti-piracy force was stalked by an Indian submarine:An Indian Kilo class submarine spooked Chinese warships that were sent to patrol pirate infested waters in the Gulf.
The PLAN is using its anti-piracy mission as an opportunity to learn:Stratfor, a private intelligence agency based in the United States, said in a report that a Chinese antipiracy patrol.
I have a piece at Guardian: Comment is Free on the International Security Advisory Board report on China. Long story short, it's Team B revisited.
NYT:A high-ranking Chinese military official has hinted that China’s fast-growing navy is seeking to acquire an aircraft carrier, a move that would surely stoke tensions with the United States military.
Defense News (unfortunately, no link) has an article providing some additional detail on Chinese efforts to develop an anti-ship ballistic missile. The platform appears to be a DF-21 MRBM (Medium.