Posted on 12/23/2011 8:03:46 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Your Move, Beijing: Big Year Ahead for Chinese Navy
At a meeting in Beijing in December, Chinese president Hu Jintao had a powerful message for officials from the People's Liberation Army Navy. "Prepare for war," Hu said, using a Mandarin term -- junshi douzheng -- that means "conflict in general."
Amplified and misrepresented by the foreign media, Hu's words echoed across Asia and the Pacific Ocean, alarming observers in Japan, India and other nations and eliciting a cool response from the U.S. Navy. "Nobody's looking for a scrap here," Adm. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, told AFP. "Certainly we wouldn't begrudge any other nation the opportunity to develop naval forces."
"Hu was highlighting the importance of continued naval modernization," pointed out M. Taylor Fravel, a professor of security studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Chinese president's statement "does not refer to a desire to go war, much less preparations for specific combat operations," Fravel said.
But the tizzy over Mandarin semantics belies a more serious issue. In a little less than a decade -- about as long as it takes the U.S. to fund, build and commission a single aircraft carrier -- the PLAN has evolved from a coastal defense force to the early stages of a blue-water navy worthy of concern.
As part of its 11th five-year military plan beginning in 2006, China has: commissioned dozens of new frigates, destroyers, submarines and amphibious ships; begun sea trials of the country's first aircraft carrier, the former Soviet Varyag; deployed ships overseas for the first time in modern Chinese history; and developed a "carrier-killer" system that combines ocean-surveillance satellites, drones and maneuverable Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles.
The past few years have
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I looked it up after I asked you. Destroyers, Frigates, Subs, ...
I still don’t understand why torpedoes can’t be programmed to dodge or go under everything and head straight for a carrier. If so, can torpedoes be shot down the way patriot missiles can shoot down Scuds?
“Worse, China and Russia have formed a military alliance even bringing Pakistan into their military alliance; the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. “
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2810247/posts
Russians are an oil exporter, and the Arabs have as much as us, and Venezuela has plenty.
Please read the following also.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2681926/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2677073/posts
Please read the following. They are all against us, and they have plenty of help from the inside, especially if the Right or Left revolt against the government.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2810247/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2681926/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2677073/posts
A civil war would invite invasion. We’d be too distracted to defend.
.....Cooperation Pacts aren't worth the paper they're printed on when it comes to energy and raw materials. The Chinese have had their eyes on Siberia forever and Pakistan plays the part of Italy in this triumvirate.
.....Cooperation Pacts aren't worth the paper they're printed on when it comes to energy and raw materials. The Chinese have had their eyes on Siberia forever and Pakistan plays the part of Italy in this triumvirate.
However there’s one big distinction there.
Germany and Japan for all the Axis power propaganda were essentially lone rangers with no realistic allies. China has created an alliance of rogue states at vital locations, including with nuclear weapons.
Draw a line from Iran via Pakistan via Myanmar via North Korea. They seem conveniently close to China’s oil routes from the Gulf.
” The Cubans and Venezuelans would be obliterated in a day with just one carrier battle group. “ or strategically placed small nuke, or bunker buster.
Worse, China and Russia have formed a military alliance even bringing Pakistan into their military alliance; the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
.....Cooperation Pacts aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on when it comes to energy and raw materials. The Chinese have had their eyes on Siberia forever and Pakistan plays the part of Italy in this triumvirate.
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They would break the pact AFTER wiping us out. Then they could divide the USA.
” Whats to keep any subs from any country from launching a full spread against any of our carriers and taking it out? “
Because they would be taken out in short order ? and they know it ?
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The sub or subs? Isn’t that a good trade? give up a sub, nail a carrier?
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