Posted on 01/24/2011 10:52:06 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Chinese President Hu Jintao had an embarrassing moment in mid-January when his military flight-tested a new tactical aircraft during a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Several features of the plane looked remarkably similar to Americas top-of-the-line F-22 fighter, and yet somehow leaders of the Peoples Liberation Army air force managed to not mention to Hu that the test was happening.
So the Chinese leader ended up learning about it from Gates. The episode suggested that although Hu is formally in charge of the Chinese military, he doesnt know what it is doing much of the time
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I don’t think the russsians would like that, and who would they be going after there?
Its new lands and new wealth to conquer like Genghis Khan.
Maybe to reunify all the nomadic Mongol-Turkic tribes of Central Asia
C’mon folks. Look at all the news articles in the past 20 years. We are watching the EXACT same military build up of unstable nations as our Grandparents did in the 1930’s. Different nations plus or minus, but history once again in repeat mode.
So Uncle Hu is kept in the dark about new military hardware? The ChiComs aren't hiding this. It's sitting right in the water at Dianshan Lake, Shanghai
Latitude 31° 6'21.50"N
Longitude 121° 0'53.29"E
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Paging Shirley Bassey....Shirley....que your History Repeating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE_1tCasi_Q
Neither do I. Thinking of the what-if’s in 5 to 20 years from now. I left Oregon with my wife and 4 young kids to live in the mid west. It’s tough and things are pretty crappy starting over. But it wasn’t a risk I wanted to take.
I do not think he is “out of the loop” in regards to hardware but he is not running things in the military.
Basically the 3.5 min anime-style video (like South Park) protrays the Chinese citizens as rabbits who finally rise up and overthrow their Tiger overlords:
I see it’s about contaminated baby formula fears of which have been a problem but under present circumstances it is weird and creepy that the dying bunnies turn into what looks like the coronavirus.
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