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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #60 on: April 14, 2017, 08:38:54 am »
We need to resist engaging Fatboy in North Korea. So far he's only tested missiles and not aimed them at anyone. I do believe he is stupid enough to launch them if we mess with him, so we should be prepared with the proper ordnance in the area of the peninsula.

I don't think we should be escalating anywhere else as well. We are in a no-win situation and should bite the bullet and withdraw. All that war money is better spent on infrastructure here.

Turkey is turning to radical Islam. I don't see them as a true ally anymore. We should be very wary in our dealings with them.
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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #61 on: April 14, 2017, 09:12:44 am »

i think the three are playing chicken with each other..china-russia-usa....idiots.!


I think the three are playing out Their script to APPEAR to be playing chicken...
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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #62 on: April 14, 2017, 03:06:58 pm »
That fatboy you talk about Irene; he reminds of a kid that hasn't grown up and his thinking look at all these toys I can let off.  That will scare people and make them respect us.

I just think his an idiot.

Now if the US or Russia started playing that game I'd shite myself. 
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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #63 on: April 14, 2017, 07:18:26 pm »
Greetings Esteemed Member biggles:

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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #64 on: April 14, 2017, 08:55:05 pm »
Oh boy, sounds like their getting itchy fingers, as long as fat boy doesn't start playing around.
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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #65 on: April 15, 2017, 06:29:24 am »
i suspect just the opposite.we are using nk as excuse to get in close to china and then pow,we invade china in a quick full on bomb raid.then by default,control all of asia.
all our national debt is wiped clean,we get chinas gold reserves and high technology.
plus control of all of asia.
all before china can even flinch.
even if china launches nukes against the usa,we can spare to lose a few peeps.
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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #66 on: April 15, 2017, 08:40:20 am »
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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #67 on: April 15, 2017, 03:06:26 pm »
That fatboy you talk about Irene; he reminds of a kid that hasn't grown up and his thinking look at all these toys I can let off.  That will scare people and make them respect us.

Well his favorite game is killing people for falling asleep during his speeches using an anti aircraft gun :P

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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #68 on: April 15, 2017, 05:46:54 pm »
Steven Seagal apparently has and  applied for citizenship.






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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #69 on: July 09, 2018, 03:58:33 pm »


imo if you have any big purchases  to make i think sooner would e better than later


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China's options to hit US go beyond imports
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BEIJING — China's options to retaliate in its spiraling dispute with Washington go beyond matching U.S. tariff hikes to targeting American companies and government debt.

Until now, Beijing has stuck to mirroring President Donald Trump's tariff threats. But its lopsided trade balance means China will run out of imports for punitive duties before Washington does.

Beijing has other ways to inflict pain. The Commerce Ministry said in June it would adopt "comprehensive measures," suggesting it might strike at a wider range of American interests.

That includes possible harassment of automakers, retailers or other American companies that depend on China to drive revenue.

Other options include selling U.S. government debt or disrupting diplomatic efforts over North Korea, though those might hurt Beijing's interests.

On Friday, Washington imposed 25 percent tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods in response to complaints Beijing steals or pressuring companies to hand over technology. China announced retaliatory tariffs on a similar amount of U.S. goods.

With no resolution in sight, Trump has said the total amount of goods affected could exceed $500 billion, or more than China's 2017 exports to the United States.

A look at some of China's options:

TARGET AMERICAN COMPANIES

China's state-dominated and heavily regulated economy gives authorities an arsenal of tools to disrupt U.S. companies by withholding licenses or launching tax, anti-monopoly or other investigations.

Also open to retaliation are services such as engineering and logistics in which the United States runs a trade surplus.

"The U.S. focus is on goods, while China could very well look at services, as well as the operation of U.S. companies in China," said Taimur Baig, chief economist for DBS Group.

In one prominent case, U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. has waited for months for word on whether Chinese regulators will accept its proposed $44 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors. All other major governments have approved the deal.

China's entirely state-controlled media have encouraged consumer boycotts against Japanese, South Korean and other products during previous disputes with those governments.

Last year, Beijing destroyed Korean retailer Lotte's business in China after the company sold land in South Korea to the Seoul government for an anti-missile system opposed by Chinese leaders.

Beijing closed most of Lotte's 99 supermarkets and other outlets in China. Seoul and Beijing later mended relations, but Lotte gave up and sold its China operations.

FINANCIAL LEVERAGE

Nationalists point to China's $1.2 trillion holdings of U.S. government debt as leverage. Beijing might suffer losses if it sold enough to influence U.S. debt financing costs — but such sales might become necessary.

China's yuan has sagged against the dollar this year, which might require the central bank to intervene in currency markets.

To get the dollars it needs, the People's Bank of China might "become a net seller of U.S. Treasuries," said Carl B. Weinberg of High-Frequency Economics in a report.

"Punishing the U.S. Treasury market is one of the tactics China has available to retaliate against unilateral U.S. tariffs," said Weinberg.

DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE

Beijing can appeal for support to U.S. allies that are miffed by Trump's "America first" approach and the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate pact.

Trump's unilateral actions have allowed China to position itself as a defender of free trade despite its status as the most-closed major economy. That could help Beijing win over governments that have criticized Trump for acting outside the World Trade Organization.

"China could strike a common ground with the EU, Canada, Japan and other economies impacted by the U.S. tariffs," said Citigroup economists Li-Gang Liu, Xiaowen Jin and Xiangrong Yu in a report.

Chinese leaders have tried, so far without success, to recruit European and other governments as allies.

More broadly, Chinese commentators have suggested Beijing also could disrupt diplomatic work over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs or other initiatives. But political analysts say that would risk setting back work Chinese leaders see as a priority.


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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #70 on: July 10, 2018, 03:27:12 am »
If the rich weren't so greedy for more and narcissistic and selfish we could bring all our manufacturing home and kick China's ass.

I hate it that practically everything we buy these days is made over there.

I'm happy to say I bought a Hawaiian shirt for the Fourth covered with flags and the Declaration of Independence. It had a huge tag on it that said "Proudly Made in the USA". You don't see that from any other country in the world.

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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #71 on: July 10, 2018, 05:35:57 pm »
We need to resist engaging Fatboy in North Korea.

Internationally speaking, Un is not a serious danger to anyone, and neither was his father.  Testing what are essentially fissionable firecrackers on atolls doesn't mean anything.  His delivery system is primitive, and he can't afford better.  He fires off those rockets and occasionally makes aggressive noises, more or less exclusively because the maintenance of his domestic authority depends on it. 

Un's power is based on keeping his population paranoid about the possibility of American invasion, and claiming that he can protect them from it.  If said invasion does not happen, and his own stance remains exclusively peaceful, then eventually his people are going to see through that story, and there is every possibility that they would overthrow him.  So he occasionally has to do something to offer some kind of superficial false proof that his bogus narrative is actually true.  He does what he does for the sake of his own public, not anyone in other countries.

The other thing to understand is that the existence of North Korea serves the psychopathic cabal's interests.  They want to keep a couple of failed states around, and deliberately keep said failed states in broken and chaotic conditions, in order to serve as examples to populations who are in the fold, of how bad life outside the dystopian Empire supposedly is.  If anyone starts complaining about how America is covered in dead shopping centers and deserted, foreclosed mansions, the streets of Paris are being covered in mattresses and sleeping bags, and entire cities like Detroit are turning into The Proper People's wet dreams, politicians and the likes of Bill Maher can turn around and rhetorically ask, "Would you rather live in Somalia or North Korea?"

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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #72 on: August 19, 2018, 07:17:29 am »
 
and in the news this week...hummmmmmmm

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/08/17/china-military-pilots-mission-targeting-us-starr-dnt-lead-vpx.cnn
Is China training its pilots to target the US?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/08/17/china-military-training-strike-us-pentagon-report/1017278002/
China's military is 'likely training for strikes' against US, Pentagon report says
 Updated 4:54 p.m. ET Aug. 17, 2018 Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY


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Chinese military steps up strike strength against U.S. targets and Taiwan, says Pentagon
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/taiwan-improves-missiles-counter-china-military-expansion-023122152.html
Taiwan improves missiles to counter China military expansion
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After detente with North Korea, Trump increasingly takes aim at a new foe — China

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Re: China: should we be alarmed yet ?
« Reply #73 on: August 29, 2018, 08:40:54 am »


somebody is beating the war drums..

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With Ships and Missiles, China Is Ready to Challenge U.S. Navy in Pacific
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DALIAN, China — In April, on the 69th anniversary of the founding of China’s Navy, the country’s first domestically built aircraft carrier stirred from its berth in the port city of Dalian on the Bohai Sea, tethered to tugboats for a test of its seaworthiness.

“China’s first homegrown aircraft carrier just moved a bit, and the United States, Japan and India squirmed,” a military news website crowed, referring to the three nations China views as its main rivals.

Not long ago, such boasts would have been dismissed as the bravado of a second-string military. No longer.

A modernization program focused on naval and missile forces has shifted the balance of power in the Pacific in ways the United States and its allies are only beginning to digest.

While China lags in projecting firepower on a global scale, it can now challenge American military supremacy in the places that matter most to it: the waters around Taiwan and in the disputed South China Sea.

That means a growing section of the Pacific Ocean — where the United States has operated unchallenged since the naval battles of World War II — is once again contested territory, with Chinese warships and aircraft regularly bumping up against those of the United States and its allies.

To prevail in these waters, according to officials and analysts who
scrutinize Chinese military developments, China does not need a military that can defeat the United States outright but merely one that can make intervention in the region too costly for Washington to contemplate. Many analysts say Beijing has already achieved that goal.

To do so, it has developed “anti-access” capabilities that use radar, satellites and missiles to neutralize the decisive edge that America’s powerful aircraft carrier strike groups have enjoyed. It is also rapidly expanding its naval forces with the goal of deploying a “blue water” navy that would allow it to defend its growing interests beyond its coastal waters.

“China is now capable of controlling the South China Sea in all scenarios short of war with the United States,” the new commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, Adm. Philip S. Davidson, acknowledged in written remarks submitted during his Senate confirmation process in March.

He described China as a “peer competitor” gaining on the United States not by matching its forces weapon by weapon but by building critical “asymmetrical capabilities,” including with anti-ship missiles and in submarine warfare. “There is no guarantee that the United States would win a future conflict with China,” he concluded.

Last year, the Chinese Navy became the world’s largest, with more warships and submarines than the United States, and it continues to build new ships at a stunning rate. Though the American fleet remains superior qualitatively, it is spread much thinner.

“The task of building a powerful navy has never been as urgent as it is today,” President Xi Jinping declared in April as he presided over a naval procession off the southern Chinese island of Hainan that opened exercises involving 48 ships and submarines. The Ministry of National Defense said they were the largest since the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949.

Even as the United States wages a trade war against China, Chinese warships and aircraft have picked up the pace of operations in the waters off Japan, Taiwan, and the islands, shoals and reefs it has claimed in the South China Sea over the objections of Vietnam and the Philippines.

When two American warships — the Higgins, a destroyer, and the Antietam, a cruiser — sailed within a few miles of disputed islands in the Paracels in May, Chinese vessels rushed to challenge what Beijing later denounced as “a provocative act.” China did the same to three Australian ships passing through the South China Sea in April.

Only three years ago, Mr. Xi stood beside President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden and promised not to militarize artificial islands it has built farther south in the Spratlys archipelago. Chinese officials have since acknowledged deploying missiles there, but argue that they are necessary because of American “incursions” in Chinese waters.

When Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Beijing in June, Mr. Xi bluntly warned him that China would not yield “even one inch” of territory it claims as its own.

‘Anti-Access/Area Denial’

China’s naval expansion began in 2000 but accelerated sharply after Mr. Xi took command in 2013. He has drastically shifted the military’s focus to naval as well as air and strategic rocket forces, while purging commanders accused of corruption and cutting the traditional land forces.

The People’s Liberation Army — the bedrock of Communist power since the revolution — has actually shrunk in order to free up resources for a more modern fighting force. Since 2015, the army has cut 300,000 enlisted soldiers and officers, paring the military to two million personnel over all, compared with 1.4 million in the United States.

While every branch of China’s armed forces lags behind the United States’ in firepower and experience, China has made significant gains in asymmetrical weaponry to blunt America’s advantages. One focus has been in what American military planners call A2/AD, for “anti-access/area denial,” or what the Chinese call “counter-intervention.”

A centerpiece of this strategy is an arsenal of high-speed ballistic missiles designed to strike moving ships. The latest versions, the DF-21D and, since 2016, the DF-26, are popularly known as “carrier killers,” since they can threaten the most powerful vessels in the American fleet long before they get close to China.

The DF-26, which made its debut in a military parade in Beijing in 2015 and was tested in the Bohai Sea last year, has a range that would allow it to menace ships and bases as far away as Guam, according to the latest Pentagon report on the Chinese military, released this month. These missiles are almost impossible to detect and intercept, and are directed at moving targets by an increasingly sophisticated Chinese network of radar and satellites.

China announced in April that the DF-26 had entered service. State television showed rocket launchers carrying 22 of them, though the number deployed now is unknown. A brigade equipped with them is reported to be based in Henan Province, in central China.

Such missiles pose a particular challenge to American commanders because neutralizing them might require an attack deep inside Chinese territory, which would be a major escalation.

The American Navy has never faced such a threat before, the Congressional Research Office warned in a report in May, adding that some analysts consider the missiles “game changing.”

The “carrier killers” have been supplemented by the deployment this year of missiles in the South China Sea. The weaponry includes the new YJ-12B anti-ship cruise missile, which puts most of the waters between the Philippines and Vietnam in range.

While all-out war between China and the United States seems unthinkable, the Chinese military is preparing for “a limited military conflict from the sea,” according to a 2013 paper in a journal called The Science of Military Strategy.

Lyle Morris, an analyst with the RAND Corporation, said that China’s deployment of missiles in the disputed Paracel and Spratly Islands “will dramatically change how the U.S. military operates” across Asia and the Pacific.

The best American response, he added, would be “to find new and innovative methods” of deploying ships outside their range. Given the longer range of the ballistic missiles, however, that is not possible “in most contingencies” the American Navy would be likely to face in Asia.

Blue-Water Ambitions

The aircraft carrier that put to sea in April for its first trials is China’s second, but the first built domestically. It is the most prominent manifestation of a modernization project meant to propel the country into the upper tier of military powers. Only the United States, with 11 nuclear-powered carriers, operates more than one.

A third Chinese carrier is under construction in a port near Shanghai. Analysts believe China will eventually build five or six.

The Chinese military, traditionally focused on repelling a land invasion, increasingly aims to project power into the “blue waters” of the world to protect China’s expanding economic and diplomatic interests, from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

The carriers attract the most attention but China’s naval expansion has been far broader. The Chinese Navy — officially the People’s Liberation Army Navy — has built more than 100 warships and submarines in the last decade alone, more than the entire naval fleets of all but a handful of nations.

Last year, China also introduced the first of a new class of a heavy cruisers — or “super destroyers” — that, according to the American Office of Naval Intelligence, “are comparable in many respects to most modern Western warships.” Two more were launched from dry dock in Dalian in July, the state media reported.

Last year, China counted 317 warships and submarines in active service, compared with 283 in the United States Navy, which has been essentially unrivaled in the open seas since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Unlike the Soviet Union, which drained its coffers during the Cold War arms race, military spending in China is a manageable percentage of a growing economy. Beijing’s defense budget now ranks second only to the United States: $228 billion to $610 billion, according to estimates by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

The roots of China’s focus on sea power and “area denial” can be traced to what many Chinese viewed as humiliation in 1995 and 1996. When Taiwan moved to hold its first democratic elections, China fired missiles near the island, prompting President Bill Clinton to dispatch two aircraft carriers to the region.

“We avoided the sea, took it as a moat and a joyful little pond to the Middle Kingdom,” a naval analyst, Chen Guoqiang, wrote recently in the official Navy newspaper. “So not only did we lose all the advantages of the sea but also our territories became the prey of the imperialist powers.”

China’s naval buildup since then has been remarkable. In 1995, China had only three submarines. It now has nearly 60 and plans to expand to nearly 80, according to a report last month by the United States Congressional Research Service.

As it has in its civilian economy, China has bought or absorbed technologies from the rest of the world, in some cases illicitly. Much of its military hardware is of Soviet origin or modeled on antiquated Soviet designs, but with each new wave of production, analysts say, China is deploying more advanced capabilities.

China’s first aircraft carrier was originally launched by the Soviet Union in 1988 and left to rust when the nation collapsed three years later. Newly independent Ukraine sold it for $20 million to a Chinese investor who claimed it would become a floating casino, though he was really acting on behalf of Beijing, which refurbished the vessel and named it the Liaoning.

The second aircraft carrier — as yet unnamed — is largely based on the Liaoning’s designs, but is reported to have enhanced technology. In February, the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation disclosed that it has plans to build nuclear-powered carriers, which have far greater endurance than ones that require refueling stops.

China’s military has encountered some growing pains. It is hampered by corruption, which Mr. Xi has vowed to wipe out, and a lack of combat experience. As a fighting force, it remains untested by combat.

In January, it was embarrassed when one of its most advanced submarines was detected as it neared disputed islands known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China. The attack submarine should never have been spotted.

The second aircraft carrier also appears to have experienced hiccups. Its first sea trials were announced in April and then inexplicably delayed. Not long after the trials went ahead in May, the general manager of China Shipbuilding was placed under investigation for “serious violation of laws and discipline,” the official Xinhua news agency reported, without elaborating.

Defending Its Claims
China’s military advances have nonetheless emboldened the country’s leadership.

The state media declared the carrier Liaoning “combat ready” in the summer after it moved with six other warships through the Miyako Strait that splits Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and conducted its first flight operations in the Pacific.

The Liaoning’s battle group now routinely circles Taiwan. So do Chinese fighter jets and bombers.

China’s new J-20 stealth fighter conducted its first training mission at sea in May, while its strategic bomber, the H-6, landed for the first time on Woody Island in the Paracels. From the airfield there or from those in the Spratly Islands, the bombers could strike all of Southeast Asia.

The recent Pentagon report noted that H-6 flights in the Pacific were intended to demonstrate the ability to strike American bases in Japan and South Korea, and as far away as Guam.

“Competition is the American way of seeing it,” said Li Jie, an analyst with the Chinese Naval Research Institute in Beijing. “China is simply protecting its rights and its interests in the Pacific.”

And China’s interests are expanding.

In 2017, it opened its first overseas military base in Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, saying that it will be used to support its participation in multinational antipiracy patrols off Somalia.

It now appears to be planning to acquire access to a network of ports and bases throughout the Indian Ocean. Though ostensibly commercial, these projects have laid the groundwork for a necklace of refueling and resupply arrangements that will “facilitate Beijing’s long-range naval operations,” according to a new report by C4ADS, a research organization in Washington.

“They soon will be able, for example, to send a squadron of ships to somewhere, say in Africa, and have all the capabilities to make a landing in force to protect Chinese assets,” said Vassily Kashin, an expert with the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

The need was driven home in 2015 when Chinese warships evacuated 629 Chinese and 279 foreigners from Yemen when the country’s civil war raged in Aden, a southern port city.

One of the frigates involved in the rescue, the Linyi, was featured in a patriotic blockbuster film, “Operation Red Sea.”

“The Chinese are going to be more present,” Mr. Kashin added, “and everyone has to get used to it.”

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