To: happytobealive
China is far less powerful than the Soviet Union was, and we now know what a sham that communist country was.
They just bought DEISEL submarines.
To: happytobealive
China is far less powerful than the Soviet Union was, and we now know what a sham that communist country was. We in America know that it is personal and political liberty that makes a nation great,not the size of it's population.China is one of the earth's oldest civilizations,and yet it stagnates under ideological backwardness.
45 posted on
07/19/2002 11:44:51 PM PDT by
kennyo
To: happytobealive
They just bought DEISEL submarines. Harpoon class, I believe. Extremely quiet. China is not looking to use these submarines to project power across the Pacific, but instead to cause problems for the United States if it sends a carrier group into the Straits of Taiwan during a conflict.
206 posted on
07/28/2002 6:51:23 AM PDT by
dirtboy
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