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US & China Square Off Over South China Sea
Topic Started: Jul 12 2012, 01:32 PM (27,752 Views)
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irichnotinheaven has long been PDFF's resident funny guy since his username was still epigone.

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LMAO!

Schizoid?

Or worst...

Schizophrenic??? LOL!
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Aug 24 2012, 06:41 PM
LMAO!

Schizoid?

Or worst...

Schizophrenic??? LOL!
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China’s Missile Advances Could Thwart U.S. Defenses, Analysts Say

HONG KONG — China is moving ahead with the development of a new and more capable generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles, increasing its existing ability to deliver nuclear warheads to the United States and to overwhelm missile defense systems, military analysts said this week.

Overall, China’s steady strengthening of its military capabilities for conventional and nuclear warfare has long caused concern in Congress and among American allies in East Asia, particularly lately as Chinese has taken a more assertive position regarding territorial claims in the East China and South China seas.

The Global Times, a newspaper directly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, reported on Wednesday that China was developing the capability to put multiple warheads on intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs. But the newspaper disputed a report in Jane’s Defense Weekly that the latest Chinese ICBM, the Dongfeng-41, had already been tested last month.

Larry M. Wortzel, on the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a panel created by Congress, said that China was developing the capability to put as many as 10 nuclear warheads on an ICBM, although dummy warheads could be substituted for some of the nuclear warheads. The dummy warheads would have heat and electromagnetic devices designed to trick missile defense systems as being as threatening as the actual warheads, he said.

“The bigger implication of this is that as they begin to field a force of missiles with multiple warheads, it means everything we assume about the size of their nuclear arsenal becomes wrong,” said Mr. Wortzel, who is a former United States military intelligence officer and retired Army colonel.

China has separately tested submarine-launched missiles as well in recent weeks, which it could use to outflank American missile detection systems, Mr. Wortzel said. Most of the radar arrays that the United States has deployed against ballistic missiles were built during the cold war to detect attacks over polar routes.

Sun Zhe, a professor of international relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing, said that China was developing its military forces only in response to continued efforts by other countries, particularly the United States, to improve their own forces.

“We have again and again said that we will not be the first country to use nuclear force,” he said. “We need to be able to defend ourselves, and our main threat, I’m afraid, comes from the United States.”

China’s development of long-range missiles is part of a much broader military expansion made possible by rapid budget growth in tandem with the Chinese economy, which had an output of $7.5 trillion last year, compared with $1.2 trillion in 2000.

China began sea trials last year for its first aircraft carrier, the Varyag, a retrofitted version of a Soviet vessel, and has begun talking this summer about the eventual construction of up to five aircraft carriers. China also began conducting fairly public flight tests in January last year for the J-20, its new stealth fighter jet.

The scale of China’s strategic missile program is much more secret. The Pentagon estimates that China currently has 55 to 65 intercontinental ballistic missiles. China is also preparing two submarines for deployment, each with 12 missiles aboard, Mr. Wortzel said.

Those forces are dwarfed by those of the United States, which is cutting its inventory to 1,550 strategic nuclear weapons by 2018 under the latest arms control agreement with Russia, signed in 2010.

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US military in Asia 'beneficial', envoy tells China

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Posted at 09/01/2012 4:44 PM | Updated as of 09/01/2012 4:44 PM

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Beijing – US envoy to Beijing Gary Locke on Saturday tried to ease China's fears that Washington wants to hem it in by emphasizing American military presence in Asia was not targeted at a single country.

"We strongly believe -- and I believe most in the region would agree -- that our security presence here is beneficial to the countries of the region and necessary for the continued vitality of the Asia-Pacific," Locke said.

"Our security presence is not aimed at any one country," he said in a speech at Peking University, noting that the United States was also boosting its diplomatic and economic engagement in the region.

Locke's remarks came days ahead of a planned visit to Beijing by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to discuss the two countries' sometimes tense economic and security relationship.

Chinese state media have accused Washington of trying to contain China by befriending regional countries -- a view that has been reinforced by Clinton's decision to start her trip in the often-overlooked South Pacific.
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Chinese aggression in South China Sea cannot be tolerated: US
Washington, Tue Sep 11 2012


Asserting that the United States must continue to strongly support its allies and its interests in the region, a top Republican lawmaker has said that the Chinese aggression in South China Sea cannot be tolerated.

"China's aggressive tactics of bullying and coercion in the South China Sea cannot be tolerated," Congresswoman Ilena Ros-Lehtinen, Chairwoman of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee, said yesterday.

"We must continue to strongly support our allies and our interests in the region and make it clear to the rulers in Beijing that the South China Sea and the western Pacific are not theirs for the taking," she said.

Ros-Lehtinen has convened a hearing of House Foreign Affairs Committee on September 12 on 'Beijing as an Emerging Power in the South China Sea'.

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The hearing will focus on China's aggressive policies and expanding influence in the South China Sea and examine current US policy in the region.

"This hearing will examine China's intentions and consider strategies to counter Beijing's efforts to expand its influence in this vital region," Ros-Lehtinen said.

The US must take decisive action to ensure that aggression is not rewarded, or otherwise the world will soon face even greater threats from an emboldened Beijing, the Congresswoman claimed.

Meanwhile, the State Department has expressed its concern over growing tension in South China Sea. "We are concerned about tension in the South China Sea and the East China Sea," the State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told reporters at a news conference here.

"We want to see with regard to the Senkakus, Japan and China work together. Good relations between them are important for each of them. They're also important for the region and important for our interests," Nuland said.



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Inside the Ring: New naval harassment in Asia

A U.S. intelligence-gathering ship was harassed by a Chinese security ship last month in an incident that analysts say indicates Beijing is stepping up aggressive maritime encounters toward the U.S. Navy in the Asia-Pacific. See the whole article below...


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The Sinocism posting stated that the U.S. ship was within 100 nautical miles of the Chinese coast and that China had not granted permission for it to operate in that region.

Apparently they are only capable of driving out Filipino fishermen.

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The Chinese photos appear to have been taken by a cellphone camera from a distance of about 10,000 yards. Analysts suggested the Chinese were engaged in long-distance countersurveillance, thus raising questions about Chinese claims of a “fierce” encounter.

Wouldn't call a 10,000 yard encounter a harassment. Fierce? Not unless profane language was used.

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A video of the confrontation posted on another website shows a Chinese security officer on ship speaking into a microphone and demanding that the U.S. ship must first get China’s permission to be in the area.

An unidentified U.S. official was then heard in the radio message as saying the Impeccable was operating legally in International waters.

The traditional yanqui way of telling them to shove the Chinese nine-dash line claim up where the sun doesn't shine. :brrt:

Look everyone! The bully can't do anything. :scared:

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