[Enemy Of The State]

..WTF....uh..do you smell a trojan horse?

[hedgetrimmer]

Why would we give technological assistance to a country that has threatened to nuke LA (my personal feelings about LA aside)?

[Carry_Okie]

"We believe that our company would be able to build conventional submarines as long as the US provided us with certain technological assistance and design blueprints," Fan said. "Of course, we would also need to purchase some new shipbuilding equipment and facilities," he added.

Am I on the wrong planet?

Maybe we should sell him a rope?

I wonder if he would get the joke?

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

if the US is willing to provide the technological assistance and design blueprints, a spokesman for the state-owned firm said yesterday.

China, what a bunch of ungrateful bastards. Clinton practically gives away nuke secrets along with high-tech secrets and now they want more?

Tough shit chicomms, new president and new rules. Rule #1: Sit there and shut the hell up and lay one finger on Taiwan and suffer the consquences via the U.S. military weaponry in the hands of the Taiwan people. Sincerly, The people of the United States

[tallhappy]

China Shipbuidling is a Taiwanese company.

They really ought to change the names of all these historically named companies from China to Taiwan to reduce confusion.

I am pretty sure that this will take place where a number, but not all, of the subs will be built in Taiwan.

[VaBthang4]

"China Shipbuilding says it can build submarines if given the specifications"

La-Dee-Freakin-Da!

An American Naval Officer says: And?

[lewislynn]

China Shipbuilding says it can build submarines if given the specifications

I too could build a submarine "if given the specifications".

[tallhappy]

OK, again.

This is Taiwan, not China.

The name is China shipbuilding. It is a Taiwanese company.

[DETAILER]

OK...so if the Chinese try to invade Taiwan with troops on tanker ships and freighters, the Taiwanese subs will have lots of big, fat, slow targets, and they can send a million Chinese troops to the bottom of the ocean. Personally I have no problem with this. Give them the plans.

[rmlew]

If The ROC on Taiwan thinks that building a modern diesel sub is easy, it should think again.

The only countries that are doing a good job of building modern diesel subs are the British (Upholder class), the French, the Dutch, the Germans, the Italians, the Japanese, the Swedes, and the Russians.

The Russians are providing technology and even subs to the Chinese.
The French have decided to sell Sonar tech to the ChiComs.
The Swedes and the Germans both make excellent subs for shallow waters. Sweden just built the Collins class for the Aussies. They are leaders in Air Independent Propuslion.
The Germans seem to by selling the 209 class to anyone who will purchase them. Greece, Israel, Singapore!, and India all buy them.
The Japanes build their own modern subs. While they have financial ties with Red China, it is in Japans interest that China is constrained and does not become the dominant naval power in the region. I'm sure the Japs will help.

[Doe Eyes]

The Blue Marlin, the ship that ferried the USS Cole from Yemen back to the USA, was built by China Shipbuilding in Kaohsiung, Republic of China (or Taiwan, if you prefer).

[brat]

Too late, China! We've already devastated the ship building industry in this country. France and the Netherlands now build our subs. Smart, aren't we? ~sarcasm off~

[dr_who]

Intriguing, wonder why they couldn't go to the Japanese though. Don't they have subs?