c**i 发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Emmanuelle Tzeng, Chen Yi-wei and Sofia Wu, China's 1st aircraft carrier
to be launched by year's end: spy head. Central News Agency, Apr 25, 2011.
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews
/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201104250039
("Fielding questions from ruling Kuomintang Legislator Lin Yu-fang, [
National Security Bureau Director-General] Tsai [Teh-sheng 蔡得胜] durther
said the planes to be deployed on the Varyag would likely be China's home-
made jet fighters patterned after Russia's SU-33. * * * Lin said after the
legislative hearing that most Western media outlets believe that China has
dubbed its home-made, carrier-based fighter the J-15.")
(2) Kathrin Hille, Chinese Warship Makes Regional Waves. Financial Times,
Apr 27, 2011
("Chinese military sources are reluctant to address the potential combat
functions, but independent military analysts say that an operational carrier
would bring China closer to its goal of air superiority over Taiwan")
My comment:
(a) The second clause of the quotation seems to suggest that Taiwan still
keeps the upper hand--a power imbalance that has been the case I heard,
since communists took over the mainland.
(b) There is no need to read the rest of FT report. |
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