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China still wants talks on building military and security trust with Taiwan, a spokesman said on Wednesday, despite Beijing’s anger over recent U.S. arms sales to the island.
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BEIJING (AP) — Beijing needs to take seriously American concerns about the value of the Chinese currency, but bilateral disputes should not impede cooperation on global issues such as climate change and Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. ambassador to Beijing said Thursday. Washington and other trading partners are pressing China to ease currency controls that have kept its yuan steady against the …
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A 106-member team of Chinese soldiers left in Lanzhou Thursday for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for an eight-month UN peace-keeping operation there. They formed the first batch of China’s 11th peace-keeping team to DRC since 2003. They will be joined by a second batch of 114 soldiers who are scheduled to depart on March 28. The 11th team, all from the Lanzhou Military Area Command …
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The Chinese government responded March 12 to the release of a U.S. human rights report critical of China by issuing its own report criticizing the U.S. human rights record. The report covered issues relating to crime, racial discrimination and poverty and accused the U.S. of using its hegemonic power to continue “trampling” on the sovereignty of other countries while “posing as the world judge …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Tibetan high school students protested in the streets of at least two towns in western China this week to mark the anniversary of an uprising against Chinese rule, and some have been detained, residents said on Thursday.
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Beijing needs to take seriously American concerns about the value of the Chinese currency, but bilateral disputes should not impede cooperation on global issues such as climate change and Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. ambassador to Beijing said Thursday.
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China respected the universality of human rights and believed all human rights were “universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated,” He Yafei, China’s new ambassador to the UN Office in Geneva, said on Wednesday. “The principle of universality has been included in the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments,” He told Xinhua …
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A study on China’s system of securing its nuclear weapons was published last week. Mark Stokes’ study of Beijing’s nuclear weapons for the Project 2049 Institute, describes where the Chinese are storing their warheads and how they are protecting them.
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If there’s one area where the US maintains a decisive lead over other countries, it’s in its military.
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Iran has said it is ready for a one-shot nuclear fuel exchange on its own soil, edging closer to the conditions of a plan drawn up by the UN atomic watchdog last year as major powers mulled a new round of sanctions.
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BEIJING, March 17 — China still wants talks on building military and security trust with Taiwan, a spokesman said today, despite Beijing’s anger over recent US arms sales to the island. China has claimed sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan since 1949, when Mao Zedong’s forces won the Chinese civil war and Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to the island. Beijing has threatened to attack if …
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China still wants talks on building military and security trust with Taiwan, a spokesman said on Wednesday, despite Beijing’s anger over recent U.S. arms sales to the island.
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KIEV | Recent developments in Iran confirm that China is providing Tehran with critical defense technologies and weapons systems, including some that violate stated Chinese policies aimed at preventing nuclear proliferation. The disclosure of Chinese military aid comes as the Obama administration is trying to persuade Beijing to join other members of the U.N. Security Council, European Union …
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TAIPEI, Taiwan –The Ministry of National Defense (MND) said Wednesday that it is closely monitoring China’s deployment of missiles at a military airport in Fujian province and the Taiwan public has no need to worry.
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For the first time in well over a decade, China has limited rising spending on defense to a less than double-digit increase.
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In the recent times, SIPRI posted a new report regarding the military sales in the five year period from 2005-2009. There are some reports on it regarding to China’s affect on the military sales in this period.
I think this article from WPR pretty much summarized what all the other articles have been saying.
It is quite clear that a lot of the Southeastern Asian nations are building up their forces during the past 5 years. That is confirmed by the report. However, I can’t really definitively say that all of the countries are aiming at China. In the case of Vietnam, it’s quite obvious that the recent purchases for the Kilo submarines and Su-30 fighter jets were aimed at China. I have talked about those purchases before and have labeled them as basically a waste of money. In the case of Indonesia, their purchases have pretty much been to just replace American weapons after America stopped supplying parts for those weapon systems. In fact, one could argue that those purchases were made in response to Australia and Singapore rather than China. It also explains why China has no qualms about selling weapons to Indonesia. In the case of Malaysia and Singapore, I think their purchases are aimed at each other as well as China. In many cases, one would ask why Malaysia needs to spend so much money on its defense. One could say that they are fearful of Chinese rise, but one could also say that they are just fearful of the more modern arsenal of Singapore. In both countries’ cases, the rise in military import is also a cyclical issue. For example, Singapore only needs to buy fighter jets every x number of years. It just happens that it made a major purchase for F-15SGs during this 5 year period.
It did surprise me that China remained the largest importer of weapons during this period, because it seemed to have been so long since they actually bought anything meaningful. The report also acknowledged that China have only been buying some helicopters and engines for different platforms since 2007. Although, they did receive some S-300PMU2 from the Russians in 2008. Looking back, a large part of their purchases made in the wake of Bush’s approval for Taiwan military sales were delivered in 2005 and 2006. I would expect the figures to drop quite a bit in the next 5 years, which would cause China to loose the title of the world’s top importer of weapons. That would certainly be a good thing. However, they still do have quite a few items that would be considered foreign purchases like the Zubr deal, Ka-28/Mi-171 purchases, possibly another batch of AL-31FN for J-10, more RD-93s for JF-17s, D-30KP2 for H-6Ks, diesel engines for 054 series, engines for Z-8/Z-9/Z-10/Z-15. They could also potentially buy S-400 and Il-76/78s from the Russians, but we will have to wait and see.
I also read an article where the Russians complained that China is not buying more weapons from them. The truth is that they just need to get used to the fact that what they are selling is not all that appealing.
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