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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Jom Wolf, US Says Mulling Further Taiwan Arms Sales. Reuters, Oct 4,
2011 (1 hour ago).
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04
/us-usa-taiwan-china-idUSTRE79369M20111004
Note: Gerald Connolly (D-Virginia)
(2) Kurt Campbell, Why Taiwan Matters, Part II. US Department of State, Oct
4, 2011
http://www.state.gov/p/eap/rls/rm/2011/10/174980.htm
(Testimony Before the House Foreign Affairs Committee)
My comment:
(a) I google for Part I and the only item returned is:
"Why Taiwan Matters, Part I: (transcript, video)
http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/ hearing_notice.asp?id=1310"
, which is not working.
(b) Most likely, the previous hearing on "Why Taiwan Matters" on June 16,
2011
http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1310
is now renamed "Why Taiwan Matters, Part I),
------------------------------Separately
(1) Paul Mozur, Reporter’s Notebook: Talking with Taiwanese Soldiers. China
Real Time, Oct 4, 2011 (blog)
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/10/04
/reporters-notebook-talking-with-taiwanese-soldiers/?mod=google_news_blog
Note:
(a) chug is abbreviated from
chugalug (vt, vi; imitative): "to drink a container of (as beer) without
pause; also : GUZZLE"
(b) whinge (vi): "British: to complain fretfully : WHINE"
Both definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(2) 美议员:中国网络间谍活动已“难以忍受.” BBC Chinese, Oct 4, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/science
/2011/07/111004_us_china_espionage.shtml
(3) China Slips Away From Failure. Strategy Page, Oct 4, 2011
http://strategypage.com/htmw/htatrit/articles/20111004.aspx
(Without any publicity at all, China is beginning to retire its J-8 jet
fighters)
(4) 图图：南非不给达赖喇嘛签证比种族隔离时期更糟. VOA Chinese, Oct 4, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news
/20111004-tutu-dalai-lama-131061868.html
(5) Peter Finn, A future for drones: Automated killing. Washington Post,
Sept 19, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/a-futu
My comment:
(a) Please read only the first three paragraphs.
(b) So far, prior approval from an American lawyer (stationed somewhere in
the world) is imperative before each killing by a drone,
(6) Taiwan Presidential Candidate Vows to Handle Senkaku Dispute Peacefully.
Kyodo News, Oct 3, 2011
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news
/20111003p2g00m0dm003000c.html
(DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen "said Ma's approach is aligned with
China's, but hers is based on three principles. One is that the Senkaku
Islands belong to Taiwan.")
My comment: I remain convinced Senkakus are not Taiwan's.
(5) Richard Goldstein, Lee Davenport, 95, Developed Battlefront Radar. New
York Times, Oct 1, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/science/01davenport.html?_r=1
radar davenport&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1317758004-nD22+euDMQ8+
6uE7Gl7EuQ
(SCR-584 (for Signal Corps Radio))
Note:
(a) Anzio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzio
(section 1.3 World War II)
(b) V-1 flying bomb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb
(V-1 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1, "retaliation weapon 1"); also known as
Buzz Bomb; In service 1944–1945); section 6 Countermeasures, 6.1 Anti-
aircraft guns (last 2 paragraphs)) |
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