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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Wendell Minnick, Taiwan's Defense Show in Decline; F-16s in Limbo.
Defense News, Aug 18, 2011
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=7422467&c=AIR&s=TOP
Quote:
"Sources at TADTE [acronym for Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology
Exhibition]said the midlife upgrade package has been renamed a "retrofit" to
reduce complaints from China. To further placate China, the F-16A/B
retrofit will be released incrementally rather than as a total package under
the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program.
"A senior Taiwan MND official said he was "disappointed" by U.S. plans to
deny Taiwan the new fighters. But senior MND and U.S. government officials
are denying the report. MND officials insist the U.S. Defense Department
delegation did not inform Taiwan of a final decision on the F-16C/Ds, and
hope remains for a positive release.
(2) William Lowther, Senators Pressure Obama on Jet Sale. Taipei Times, Aug
20 2011 (available now).
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/08/20/2003
(US Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and James Inhofe (R-OK) says not seeling
F-16C/Ds to Taiwan is "unaccetable")
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(1) J Michael Cole, US Deports Taiwanese for China Exports Plan. Taipei
Times, Aug 20 2011 (available now).
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/08/20/2003
(Ko-suen “Bill” Moo (慕可舜) is deported to Taiwan, who, as Lockheed
Martin’s top agent in Taiwan, sought to procure and export F-16 engine and
two missiles, the former to Shenyang Aircraft Corp)
(2) Hamish McDonald, Tread Carefully with China Rhetoric. Sydney Moring
Herald, Aug 20, 2011 (opinion; available now)
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics
/tread-carefully-with-china-rhetoric-20110819-1j22k.html
Quote:
"In America, another new book called A Contest for Supremacy: China, America
, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia by Aaron Friedberg, a former adviser
to former vice-president Dick Cheney, urges America to prepare for a
showdown with China.
"This month an article by Jane Slaughter on the website labornotes.org
points out that US factory workers, on $US10 an hour and largely de-
unionised, in states such as Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina, are
becoming competitive with China. Rising wages and unrest in China's factory
zones, the cost of shipping, the higher productivity and protection from
copying in the US are starting to turn the outsourcing tide.
Note: Jane Slaughter, Next Low-Wage Haven: USA. Labornotes.org, Aug 4, 2011.
http://labornotes.org/2011/07/next-low-wage-haven-usa
Quote from Jane Slaughter:
"Wages for China’s factory workers certainly aren’t going to rise to U.S.
levels soon. BCG estimates they will be 17 percent of the projected U.S.
manufacturing average—$26 an hour for wages and benefits—by 2015.
"ALREADY COMPETITIVE * * * Ford’s flagship Dearborn Truck plant outside
Detroit, for example, contracts non-union workers to do inspection and
repairs—long the coveted jobs, that workers could get only with many years
’ seniority—at $10 an hour with no benefits. That’s more than the Chinese
average now, but less than what’s projected for 2015.
(3) EP-8 Replaced By Robots. Strategy Page, Aug 18, 2011
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htnavai/articles/20110818.aspx
(Instead of making EP-8, US Navy will use UAV to replace EP-3)
My comment; E stands for electronic (warfare) in EP-8 and EP-3, both are
variants of P-8 Poseidon and P-3 Orion (which US sold a score to Taiwan).
Lockheed P-3 Orion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-3_Orion
(On 1 April 2001, a midair collision between a United States Navy EP-3E
ARIES II signals surveillance aircraft and a People's Liberation Army Navy (
PLAN) J-8II jet fighter-interceptor resulted in an international dispute
between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) called
the Hainan Island incident)
(4) Sudha Ramachandran, Indian navy pumps up eastern muscle. Asia Times
Online, Aug 20, 2011 (available now).
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MH20Df02.html
Summary: "The Indian Navy is the world's fifth largest." As part of its "
Look East" policy, India is moving navy asset to the east of the nation,
including
(a) an aircraft carrier INS (Indian Naval Ship) Viraat,
(b) all five Rajput-class guided-missile destroyers (modified versions of
Soviet Kashin class destroyers),
(c) the only ship to be acquired from the Americans, the amphibious USS
Trenton, now renamed INS Jalashwa,
(d) the indigenously manufactured stealth frigates INS Shivalik, INS Satpura
and INS Sahyadri
(e) the US-manufactured P-8I Poseidon long-range maritime patrol aircraft,
(f) the Italy-made new fleet tanker, INS Shakti,
(g) all India's nuclear submarines (when built): INS Arihant, which is
undergoing sea trials and was constructed at Visakhapatnam. Two other
nuclear submarines are reportedly under development here.
and (h) a nuclear submarine naval base somewhere near Visakhapatnam
* Visakhapatnam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visakhapatnam
(5) 拜登在北京观看美中篮球比赛. VOA Chinese, Aug 18, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110818-CHINA-US-BBALL-127986978.html
("拜登星期三晚上抵达北京后，出人意料地访问北京奥林匹克体育中心，观看了一场美
中篮球赛。拜登和新任美国驻中国大使骆家辉以及华盛顿乔治敦大学校长一起坐在前排
，观看乔治敦大学篮球队与山西'猛龙'队比赛")
My comment; This match on Wednesday is not the same as the one with now
world-famous brawl.
美中篮赛变群殴 友谊第一成历史. VOA Chinese, Aug 19, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110819-US-China-Goodwill-128062748.html
("星期三，拜登刚一抵达北京就直奔奥林匹克体育中心，观看乔治城大学队和山西一支
球队的比赛。有人把此举称为体育外交，并把它跟1971年美中之间的乒乓外交相比。然
而，星期四的比赛却完全变味了，乔治城大学队和八一火箭队的对阵转变成一场斗殴")
(6) 中国将备受谴责的铁道部官员调去波兰. VOA Chinese, Aug 18, 2011
(新华社说，铁道部发言人王勇平将被派往位于华沙的国际铁路合作组织任职)
(7) 李克强结束访港 全天遭民众抗议. VOA Chinese, Aug 18, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20110818-HK-rally-against-Keqiang-127997043.html
(8) Jeremy Page, First Photos of Chinese Aircraft Carrier Sea Trials. China
Real Time, Aug 18, 2011.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/08/18
/first-photos-of-chinese-aircraft-carrier-sea-trials/
(9) Thomas Grove, New Chinese Stealth Jet Starts Talk of Russian Help.
Reuters, Aug 18, 2011
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/18
/russia-china-jet-idUSLDE77H0BK20110818
My comment: The report does not offer evidence that Mikoyan transferred
technology to aid China's J-20 development. | r****f
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立委发发福利啦！ | j*******y
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