amazing what can be built from stolen designs and technology...
Posted on 01/06/2011 5:03:48 AM PST by Kaslin
Defense: While America has stopped production of its stealth fighter, China prepares to challenge U.S. air supremacy in the Western Pacific with its own.
China is on another Long March, one it hopes will lead to military supremacy over the U.S. at least in the Western Pacific. It is deploying a carrier-killing mobile missile, the Dong Feng 21D, and is expected to launch its first aircraft carrier this year, the refurbished ex-Soviet carrier Varyag. China is also conducting preflight tests on a fifth-generation stealth fighter expected to challenge the best the U.S. has to offer.
Photographs reportedly showing China's J-20 undergoing high-speed taxi tests at the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute in western China have appeared, first on unofficial Chinese and foreign defense-related websites. Such tests are the last stage before actual flight tests.
The origin of the photos is unclear, but their publication comes tantalizingly close to Defense Secretary Robert Gates' upcoming visit to Beijing to repair U.S.-Chinese military ties, a visit that was suspended a year ago over U.S. military sales to Taiwan. Chinese President Hu Jintao will be here for a state visit on Jan. 19.
Beijing's Internet cops apparently have not tried to block distribution of the J-20 pictures, which appear to be genuine, according to Gareth Jennings, aviation desk editor at Jane's Defence Weekly. "It's pretty far down the line," says Jennings of the J-20's development, adding that flight testing could begin in a few weeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
Are people going to identify the nut of the problem in the above sentence, or are they going to blame NAFTA?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."
http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed092605a.cfm
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From the Russian News and Information Agency:
July 27, 2006
"'I am determined to expand relations with Russia,' Chavez, known as an outspoken critic of what he calls the United States' unilateralism, told the Russian leader, adding that his determination stemmed from their shared vision of the global order.":
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060727/51913498.html
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“We are creating a new world, a balanced world. A new world order, a multipolar world,” Chavez told reporters during a visit to Communist China, one of many. His “new world order” includes [RUSSIA], China, Iran,... and a significantly weakened United States, he explained.
Resurgent Communism in Latin America
by Alex Newman, March 16, 2010:
The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate
By Richard Poe
May 26, 2003
CHINA WILL LIKELY replace the USA as world leader, said Bill Clinton in a recent Washington Post interview. It is just a matter of time. Clinton should know. He has personally done more to build China’s military strength than any man on earth.
Most Americans have heard of the so-called "Chinagate " scandal. Few understand its deadly import, however. Web sites such as "Chinagate for Dummies" and its companion "More Chinagate for Dummies" offer some assistance. Unfortunately, with a combined total of nearly 8,000 words, these two sites – like so many others of the genre – offer more detail than most of us "dummies" can absorb.
For that reason, in the 600 words left in this column, I will try to craft my own "Idiot’s Guide to Chinagate," dedicated to all those busy folks like you and me whose attention span tends to peter out after about 750 words. Here goes.
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, China presented little threat to the United States. Chinese missiles "couldn’t hit the side of a barn," notes Timothy W. Maier of Insight magazine. Few could reach North America and those that made it would likely miss their targets.
Thanks to Bill Clinton, China can now hit any city in the USA, using state-of-the-art, solid-fueled missiles with dead-accurate, computerized guidance systems and multiple warheads.
China probably has suitcase nukes as well. These enable China to strike by proxy – equipping nuclear-armed terrorists to do their dirty work, while the Chinese play innocent. Some intelligence sources claim that China maintains secret stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons on U.S. soil, for just such contingencies.
In 1997, Clinton allowed China to take over the Panama Canal. The Chinese company Hutchison Whampoa leased the ports of Cristobal and Balboa, on the east and west openings of the canal respectively, thus controlling access both ways. A public outcry stopped Clinton in 1998 from leasing California’s Long Beach Naval Yard to the Chinese firm COSCO. Even so, China can now strike U.S. targets easily from their bases in Panama, Vancouver and the Bahamas.
How did China catch up so fast? Easy. We sold them all the technology they needed – or handed it over for free. Neither neglect nor carelessness are to blame. Bill Clinton did it on purpose.
As a globalist, Clinton promotes "multipolarity" – the doctrine that no country (such as the USA) should be allowed to gain decisive advantage over others.
To this end, Clinton appointed anti-nuclear activist Hazel O’Leary to head the Department of Energy. O’Leary set to work "leveling the playing field," as she put it, by giving away our nuclear secrets. She declassified 11 million pages of data on U.S. nuclear weapons and loosened up security at weapons labs.
Federal investigators [Cox Report] later concluded that China made off with the "crown jewels" of our nuclear weapons research under Clinton’s open-door policy – probably including design specifications for suitcase nukes. Meanwhile, Clinton and his corporate cronies raked in millions.
In his book The China Threat, Washington Times correspondent Bill Gertz describes how the system worked. Defense contractors eager to sell technology to China poured millions of dollars into Clinton’s campaign. In return, Clinton called off the dogs.
Janet Reno and other counterintelligence officials stood down while Lockheed Martin, Hughes Electronics, Loral Space & Communications and other U.S. companies helped China modernize its nuclear strike force.
"We like your president. We want to see him reelected," former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung. Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton’s way.
Clinton’s top campaign contributors for 1992 were Chinese agents; his top donors in 1996 were U.S. defense contractors selling missile technology to China.
Clinton recieved funding directly from known or suspected Chinese intelligence agents, among them James and Mochtar Riady who own the Indonesian Lippo Group; John Huang; Charlie Trie; Ted Sioeng; Maria Hsia; Wang Jun and others.
Commerce Secretary Ron Brown served as Clinton’s front man in many Chinagate deals. When investigators began probing Brown’s Lippo Group and Chinagate connections, Brown died suddenly in a suspicious April 1996 plane crash.
Needless to say, China does not share Clinton’s enthusiasm for globalism or multipolarity. The Chinese look out for Number One.
"War [with the United States] is inevitable; we cannot avoid it," said Chinese Defense Minister General Chi Haotian in 2000. "The issue is that the Chinese armed forces must control the initiative in this war." Bill Clinton has given them a good start.
The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate:
http://www.richardpoe.com/column.cgi?story=125
or,
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/26/214938.shtml
(this version hasn't the necessary hyperlinks, but the above doesn't seem to be available any longer)
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Related Stories
Richard Poe, "Chinagate: The Third-Way Scandal" (June 3, 1999)
Christopher Ruddy, "Russia and China Prepare for War: Parts I - VIII," NewsMax.com (March 9 -18, 1999)
I couldn't agree more...
Mike
China is a backwards country and this plane is simply a fake, meant to distract us.
...or so goes the FR logic even just a year ago when I pointed out that a country about to overtake us in GDP (and never look back) might become a military threat too. How many US ships will have to sit at the bottom of the Pacific before even conservatives begin realize that China is for real and they’re playing hardball?
China is not a threat militarily, nothing to see here. Move along.
There is NO doubt that Americans still underestimate the Asian ability to advance past us. Now that they have embraced certain aspects of Capitalism, the creativity of their people that this has inspired, will leave us in the pit of history with no way to climb out.
China has reinvented itself, again. Only this time, it is for real.
Our only hope is to inject a fatal virus into China that will surely destroy that country from within — liberalism!
Actually they already have it in the form of one child per family...this is and will cause vast repercussions in their society in the coming years ...if they forego this rule then it will signal that their new intent is world domination
You mean in the comming centuries with the size of their population.
“How many US ships will have to sit at the bottom of the Pacific before even conservatives begin realize that China is for real and they’re playing hardball?”
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Apparently, it will take at least one called an aircraft carrier.
I just hope that all those dead birds in AR and LA
croaked because they flew into an invisible flying machine that we reverse engineered from that aleeun stuff we got
over at Area 51.
Meanwhile Gates is cancelling the F-35.
I’d cancel that way behind schedule and overly priced piece of shit myself. Use the money that was destined for the F35 and buy more Raptors. =.=
I take your point. But Onada will not do that for the obvious reasons.
Ping
The US will still be the most powerful democracy, and the media center of the world, plus in many ways the center of world diplomacy and foreign relations.
An economically strong China will just build up a threatening army and strut about the world stage in an arrogant manner.
amazing what can be built from stolen designs and technology...
As long as the liberals feel good about the downfall of America, then, they are fine with it...
J-20’s and SU-50’s, and now MiG xx’s.
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