[hedgetrimmer]

China is continuing to make advances in military warfighting techniques, including a crucial ability to direct multiple forces from different branches of service in the same theater of operations, a recent analysis said.

According to a report written by Al Santoli -- an Asian-affairs expert, editor of the American Foreign Policy Council's China Reform Monitor, and a senior national-security adviser to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. -- during "ongoing large-scale military exercises, China has demonstrated significant new joint-service warfighting skills 'under high-tech conditions' that are steadily altering the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait."

Specifically, the report said, China's People's Liberation Army is applying U.S. military doctrine to integrate its "relentless expanding" of strategic missile forces; high performance Su-27 and Su-30 fighter planes bought from Russia; new blue-water, long-range naval ships, including a pair of Russian-built Sovremenny-class destroyers armed with SS-N-22 "Sunburn" anti-ship missiles; state-of-the-art communications systems purchased from U.S. and Western companies; and "development of advanced information and electronic warfare capabilities."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21547

[canuck_conservative]

Yeah, they're so advanced they have to buy their fighter jets from Russia and can't even put a man in space - and the US did that 40+ years ago!!

[Quix]

I would expect this to multiply geometrically.

The CHINESE ARE EXCEEDINLY PATIENT AND METHODICAL . . . and relentless.