The Rising Sea Dragon in Asia - 2009 Update

THE RISING SEA DRAGON IN ASIA - JEFFHEAD.COM ^ | 17-Jan-2009 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

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In 2008 the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has continued to concentrate on integrating its new surface combatants into its various fleets, while continuing to introduce new combatants simultaneously...as it did in 2007 In particularly, the PLAN has added more of the new nuclear attack and ballistic missile submarines, punctuating the PLAN's continued advance and improvement of its nuclear submarine capability, while continuing to build and add more new diesel electric submarines. In addition, the PLAN has restarted its new guided-missile frigate production and is continuing serial production of the very cvapable Type 054A, or , frigates. The new Type 071, , Landing Platform Dock has copleted significant trials and integration and had its pennant number added. More of these modern amphoious assault vessels are expected. In late 2008, the People's Republic of China officially satetd its intentions to build two large, fixed-wing, aircraft carriers during the twenty teens. They will probably be built at the very large and new, Changxing shipyards near Shanghai. This is fueling speculation that the Varyag, continuing to be refitted in the PLAN's Dalian shipyards, will be launched as a trsinging aircraft in the near future.

At the very end of the year, in late December 2008, all of the PLAN planning, logistics, development, and strategy were put to use for when a PLAN task force consisting of two of the People Republic's newest and most capable guided missile destroyers and one of the newer replenishment vessels, was deployed into the Indian Ocean to combat Somali pirates that had confronted and attacked a number of Chinese (and many other nations') commercial shipping in the area. It is the first combat deployment of Chinese Navy vessels outside of its own coastal waters in the China Seas in modern times and will give the PLAN more experience in such foregin, blue water deployments. The current task force is schedule to be rotated with another task force consisting of the same class vessels every three months.

Finally, although no new very large surface combatants were started in 2008, the PLAN nevertheless continues its unprecedented modernization and buildup, integrating into its ongoing operations its new guided missile destroyers, guided missile frigates, fast attack craft, very modern and quiet diesel/electric attack submarines, nuclear attack submarines, nuclear ballistic missile submarines, logisitic support craft, amphibious assault craft, and the infrastructure and aircraft to support them.

The new modern guided missile destroyers conducted significant training and integration exercises throughout 2008. This included the Hangzhou (Project 956), the Luzhou (Type 51C), Luyang (Type 52B), and Lanzhou (Type 52C) classes.

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[Jeff Head]

You are very welcome AG...and here’s a BUMP back!

[Jeff Head]

The Chinese have fortified and built up the islands that they acquired in the 1990s along key choke points for oil passing through the China Seas.

[hosepipe]

Amen...

[Jeff Head]

...and Amen. Betty, you thoughts?

[philman_36]

You're nothing but a scaremonger! {;^)

[Jeff Head]

Just a voice out here in the Idaho wilderness...LOL!

But, more seriously...we have to wear the shoes that fit if we have a hope of staying on our feet for long.

[philman_36]

...we have to wear the shoes that fit...

I wear what worx!
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[Jeff Head]

Hehehe...

I made a few changes...

The Red Blooded American Worx boot is made out of Cordura, a tough synthetic nylon. It is especially good when working around tough skined and caustic liberal coyotes and snakes and other varieties of sorry sap suckers, or thick and thin skinned RINOs for that matter.

This is because the end of this boot and its lining does not shrivel up like less red blooded boots and their linings and ends have a tendancy to do in such working environments.

This boot is also excellent for slippery, slimy marxist bastards of all types because it is so adept at kicking their back sides to hell's half acre and back, while maintaining a comfortable fit on any surface.

The sole has excellent traction and, except for the steel toed end of the boot, is non-marking for work requirements requiring some descretion

Get yours today.

Actually, I'll probably get a pair.

[betty boop]

My thoughts? Speculative: I think BHO will be the first president in history to breech his oath of office in the very act of swearing to it. I really don’t want to say more, other than what lies ahead looks pretty grim to me.

[hosepipe]

[ I really don’t want to say more, other than what lies ahead looks pretty grim to me. ]

Me too.. but then I'm an Opto-pessimist.. I hope for the best but expect the worst..

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you both for sharing your insights!

No matter what may await us in this mortal life, we Christians can be at peace:

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. – Romans 8:38-39

[betty boop]

I hope for the best but expect the worst..

LOL! I expect the worst and hope I'll be pleasantly surprised when/if it doesn't happen. But Jeepers, BHO conducts himself like a tin-pot dictator of some third-world banana republic. Hugo Chavez comes to mind as a possible role model. The constant, round-the-clock hype of this "Mr. X" is totally maddening to me. I'm beginning to wonder where all the adults went, for it seems America has been reduced to a kindergarten in recent times....

[betty boop]

No matter what may await us in this mortal life, we Christians can be at peace.

In the present matter, my prayer is ever the same: "Lord, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Thy will, not mine, be done." And I am at peace.

All will be according to God's will, and therefore will work to our good.

To God be the glory!

[Jeff Head]

Amen to that. Here's another from Romans that is one of my favorites.

Romans 8:15-18 and 27-28

[Jeff Head]

Obama's cry for a "new" declaration of independence is a perfect example.

Did you hear it, Saturday I think it was in Baltimore?

Well, how exactly can Obama use the force of government to "free" us from what he believes is tired, old thinking...from what he says is "narrow mindedness"?

What force or power will the people who are mesmerized by the Obamanation and who seek such independence be willing to give him to make that happen?

...and who decides?

Think about that for a few minutes and how he would have to go about it, and you will know all you need to know about the man. He is a tyrant waiting to happen...and may well be happening before our very eyes.

I say again...

IT'S TIME FOR A RETURN TO THE OLD SCHOOL

[Alamo-Girl]

Amen. Praise God!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed, all of Romans 8 is a special blessing!

[betty boop]

... and may well be happening before our very eyes

Indeed Jeff. If BHO isn't a prospective tyrant, then what's with all this "cult of personality" business?

I expect he will make it just as difficult as possible for us to "return to the old school." For one thing, he seems to have dropped all character considerations as relevant in the selection of his most senior officers (e.g., Geitner, Holder). Then sooner or later will come the Fairness Doctrine, which will censor certain forms of political speech. Thus he and his cadres effectively control dissent while flooding all communications media, traditional to internet, with daily doses of Himself and his policy pitches. RKBA will be inexorably chipped away, probably via a gradualist approach. Coerced unionization will be enacted into law. Small business owners will be punished by his tax hikes. Trillion-dollar annual budget deficits will become the norm. Interest rates will rise, along with unemployment. Most likely military budgets will be slashed — at a time when our "competitors" are heavily investing in their own military establishments. And that's just off the top of my head.

If one wanted a better prescription than this for the complete disabling of America, I can't imagine what it would be.

Thanks so much for writing, Jeff!

[Jeff Head]

If one wanted a better prescription than this for the complete disabling of America, I can't imagine what it would be.

That has been th idea and plan from the getgo. Obama is the latest and most successful incarnation of their powermongering desires.

But they are fogetting God in Heaven and they are discounting the loyal, God-fearing people who still exist in this nation by the tens of millions.

[Lurker]

"Peace is defined as the absence of resistance to Socialism" V.I. Lenin.

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