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On March 2009, the PRC Administration of Fishery and Fishing Harbor Supervision (AFFHS) confirmed (here) that five “heavier than 3000-ton” class patrol ships with helicopter support platform were ordered to augment its law enforcement capabilities.This recently revealed mini-Type054 could be one of the five ordered by the AFFHS. Together with the transferred Type R22T Fuchi class AOR Fuxianhu
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Chinese missile frigate makes port call at Djibouti(Source: Xinhua) 2010-01-26　　DJIBOUTI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) — A Chinese guided missile frigate has made a port call to Djibouti for re-supply after escort missions in the nearby Gulf of Eden and in the international waters off Somalia.　　It was the first time for Chinese naval vessels to have made port calls to the Horn of Africa country.　　The
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Here is a bit of news that might calm the PRC leadership’s “anger” (here) over the US planned arms sales to ROC. The Sino-US military relations will likely return to “normal” in six months when the current theatrical-work ends.(here) U.S. May Lift Export Controls for Some Warfare Items (Update1)January 28, 2010, 06:28 PM ESThttp://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-28/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/world/asia/30arms.html?hp

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has approved an arms sales package to Taiwan worth more than $6 billion, a move that has enraged China and may complicate President Obama’s effort to enlist Beijing’s cooperation on Iran.

The administration deferred a decision on selling F-16 fighter planes to Taiwan, administration officials said, but they pointedly added that they were not shutting the door to future F-16 sales.

The last time the United States sold F-16s to Taiwan was in 1992 under President George H. W. Bush. In response, China threatened to withdraw from international arms control talks and retaliated, many China experts contend, by selling medium-range missiles to Pakistan.

“We continue to study it,” a senior administration official said of the possible F-16 sales. “We will look at it from the perspective of what its impact would be on Taiwan’s air defense capability.”

The arms package announced Friday is primarily defensive, and includes 114 Patriot missiles worth $2.82 billion, 60 Black Hawk helicopters worth $3.1 billion and communications equipment for Taiwan’s F-16 fleet. The package also includes Harpoon missiles and mine-hunting ships, the Defense Cooperation Security Agency said in a statement.

The Chinese reaction was swift, and negative. China’s vice foreign minister, He Yafei, issued a diplomatic message to the State Department expressing his “indignation” over the pending sale, said Wang Baoding, the spokesman at the Chinese Embassy in Washington.

“We believe this move endangers China’s national security and harms China’s peaceful reunification efforts,” Mr. Wang said in an interview. “It will harm China-U.S. relations and bring about a serious and active impact on bilateral communication and cooperation.”

China experts said that Beijing was likely to cut off military-to-military cooperation with the United States in retaliation, and that President Hu Jintao might boycott Mr. Obama’s planned nuclear security summit meeting in April.

The relationship between the two countries may deteriorate more if Mr. Obama meets, as he is expected to, with the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Mr. Obama put off meeting with the Dalai Lama last year to avoid angering Beijing before his visit to China in November, a decision that received strong criticism from human rights activists.

Gen. James L. Jones, the national security adviser, said Friday that the announcement should not “come as a surprise to our Chinese friends,” adding that the Obama administration was “bent on a new relationship with China that goes beyond arms sales to Taiwan.” Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, General Jones sought to play down the escalating tensions between the United States and China.

Those tensions have been on full display since Mr. Obama traveled to Beijing in November. While Mr. Obama and Mr. Hu promised to conduct regular exchanges and to work together on a number of issues, they did not reach an agreement on how to move forward on Western efforts to rein in Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Obama administration officials now say that they view China, not Russia, as the main stumbling block on efforts to get a Security Council resolution that would impose additional sanctions on Iran.

A month after Mr. Obama went to Beijing, China blocked his efforts to reach a meaningful climate change agreement in Copenhagen. China announced this month that it had tested the country’s first land-based missile defense system, a test that Chinese and Western analysts said was timed to convey Beijing’s annoyance over the expected American arms sales to Taiwan. Throughout January, Chinese state news media have produced a torrent of articles condemning the expected sale.

China views Taiwan as a breakaway province, separated since the civil war of the 1940s, and sees arms sales as interference in an internal matter. The American relationship with Taiwan is one of the most delicate diplomatic issues between Beijing and Washington.

The deal announced Friday is the second big arms sale to Taiwan in two years. When the Pentagon announced in October 2008, under the Bush administration, that it was selling Taiwan $6.6 billion worth of weapons, China froze military ties with the United States and did not resume the contacts until after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Beijing last February.

On Wednesday, the Pentagon spokesman, Geoff Morrell, urged China not to take that tack again. Responding to a question from a reporter before the sale was announced, Mr. Morrell said that “this relationship is too important to go through the fits and starts that we have over the years, where every little bump in the road results in a breaking of communication and a suspension of dialogue.”

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are both expected to travel to Beijing this year for high-level talks. Administration officials said Friday that they hoped China did not retract those two invitations.

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China to contribute 32 Type 05P (ZSL05) APC to the African Union-UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID). They are being shipped to Sudan from the Anhui Hubin Machinery Factory on January 28th (here).China-defense blog’s entry on the Type05p/ZSL93/ZSL05WZ523 6×6 Armored Personnel Carrier.Monday, October 26, 2009ZSL93/WZ523 6×6 Armored Personnel Carrier.http://china-defense.blogspot.com/2009/
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DATE:29/01/10SOURCE:Flight InternationalShaanxi’s Y9 still waiting on Chinese military to commitBy Leithen Francishttp://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/01/29/337807/shaanxis-y9-still-waiting-on-chinese-military-to-commit.htmlChina’s state-owned Shaanxi Aircraft has frozen the design of its Y9 transport, but has yet to start building the aircraft due to a lack of orders.A source familiar with
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In November 2009, China expressed interest in playing a “lead role” in the fight against Somali pirates. (here) They requested to co-chair SHADE (Shared Awareness and Deconfliction) jointly with the EU and US-led Combined Maritime Force, headquartered in Bahrain.After receiving support from the EU delegation, China is now approved to lead SHADE’s anti-piracy patrols off Somalia. This effort
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A good follow up article from the PLAdaily to Stephen Miles’ “PLA Experimentation with Armed Cargo Ships”http://www.china-defense.com/oped/armed_cargo_ships/armed_cargo_ships01.htmlContainer vessel modification injects vigor into maritime military transportability(Source: PLA Daily) 2010-01-28http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/news-channels/china-military-news/2010-01/28/content_4127965.htm　　Since
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In case you were wondering what that Light Sport aircraft is from the “engine-less J-11B” post (here), it is a Cessna 162 Skycatcher. The aircraft will be shipped from the Shenyang Aircraft Company back to the U.S. where they will be reassembled.http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/cessna_skycatcher_first_flight_production_china_201174-1.html September 17, 2009Production Cessna Skycatcher Flies
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The consistent US arms sales to the ROC and the EU’s perpetual “consideration” to lift the arms embargo to China have almost become ritualized. At the end of the day, despite all the diplomatic protest by the PRC, the US will sell most of the non-head line items to the ROC (here). And as a gesture to the PRC, the US will leave the big ticket items out, such as F-16s. The EU will continue to
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First, we have some updated photos of Varyag. You can see that they are getting ready to install the AESA radar panels that you see on 052C. You can also see that they are setting up a mast to install the Sea Eagle Volume Search radar that you see on 054A.

Here are some other photos we see from a recent magazine.

We also got some news recently. It was said that 998, China’s only 071 LPD, will be in the next flotilla sent to Gulf of Aden. It looks like PLAN is intent on testing out all of its new goodies in an extended deployment.

We also got some news regarding to HQ-16 SAM that is found on 054A. The original article is as follows:

中国海军某新型舰空导弹－－绝对新型。
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1999年7月，某新型舰空导弹项目正式立项，明确采用新的发射技术。有趣的是，新型导弹的命名，是把当年 周总理命名的那型导弹后面的两个阿拉伯数字颠倒了。
2007年底，某试验海区。该新型舰空导弹首次进行舰上实导射击试验。2008年某月，定型试验，7天打7 发，全部命中。创造了中国海军舰空导弹第一次成功拦掠海飞行小目标，第一次成功拦截多目标，第一次成功拦截 超音速火箭靶弹的记录。
2009年10月－11月，570舰搭载该型导弹到海上靶场，发射多枚导弹。这是该型导弹首次在海军作战舰 艇由舰员操作进行实弹射击。

If we ignore some of the exaggerations about first, we can get the following:

• Project started in July of 1999
• Started conducting shipborne live firing testing for the first time at end of 2007
• In 2008, they conducted 7 tests in 7 days and hit all the targets
• Successfully intercepted small sea-skimming target. Successfully intercepted multiple targets at the same time and intercepted supersonic target
• From October to November of 2009, 570 carrying HQ-16 returned to the test ground to fire off more missiles.

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Just your basic conversational Chinese, great for picking up girls!战略导弹武器系统生存能力 （survivability of strategic missile weapon system）zhanliie daodan wuqi xitong shengcun nengli战略导弹武器系统生存能力 （survivability of strategic missile weapon system）战略导弹武器系统遭核袭击后还具有的作战能力。通常用生存概率表示。它是衡量战略导弹武器系统作战能力的重要指标之一。战略导弹武器系统生存能力主要取决于导弹武器的反应时间和机动能力、伪装程度和被发现的概率、导弹数量和阵地配置密度、战略侦察和反导系统的防御能力，以及导弹武器和阵地加固水平等。提高生存能力的主要措施有：
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The current issue of Aviation News (HangKong Bao) displays a dozen manufactured J11Bs sitting at SAC without engines. This highlights the problem the PLAAF faces due to Shanyang Liming Aircraft Engine company’s inability to fulfill all FWS10A (Taihang) orders. As indicted by the SAC’s press release on its 2009 performance, it said it had fulfilled its PLAAF contracts “fairly” well. Which is
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The recently aired CCTV documentary has confirmed that the secretive Chinese underwater guns are based on the Russian designs*The Russian SPP-1 4.5mm underwater pistol can accommodate either a twin or quad-barrel arrangement with a cartridge in each which is inserted into the pistol’s breech. The Chinese QSS-05 5.8mm adoption (or 山寨) has a tri-barrel pistol arrangement.The Chinese also “山寨-ed”
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BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) — A 40-member Chinese medical care and epidemic prevention team left here for Haiti on Sunday afternoon on a chartered flight, which also carried 20 tonnes of medical supplies, said the Ministry of Commerce (MOC).

The MOC said earlier in the day that China had decided to provide medical supplies worth 18 million yuan (2.64 million U.S. dollars) in additional aid to quake-ravaged Haiti.

Members of Chinese medical care and epidemic prevention team wave before they board a plane to Haiti, in Beijing, capital of China, on Jan. 24, 2010. A 40-member Chinese medical care and epidemic prevention team left here for Haiti on Sunday afternoon on a chartered flight, which also carried 20 tonnes of medical supplies.

The 20-tonne medical supplies included medicines, hygiene equipment, medical devices and camping equipment, said the ministry in a statement.

Also onboard the plane would be four Chinese peace-keeping police officers, replacing the four who were killed in the earthquake. China maintains a 125-member peacekeeping force in Haiti.

The chartered flight was expected to arrive at Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince at 3 p.m. Monday local time.

The MOC statement also said the 40 medical personnel came from China’s military medical system and 70 percent of them had participated in previous UN peacekeeping missions.

Many of them had been involved in the massive rescue mission after the deadly 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008, which left about 87,000 people dead or missing, it said.

At the departure ceremony, Qian Lihua, director of the Ministry of Defense’s foreign affairs office, said China was carrying out its responsibility as a UN Security Council member to help the Haitian people with concrete actions.

Qian said he expected the Chinese medical team to accomplish the mission in a professional manner by helping the Haitian people ward off threat of post-quake epidemic and reconstruct their homeland.

According to the MOC, with the 18 million yuan of additional aid, China has so far provided humanitarian aid worth 48 million yuan in materials and other supplies to Haiti, in addition to 3.6 million U.S. dollars in cash to the Caribbean country.

Apart from Sunday’s delivery of medical aid, China had already provided several other major aids to Haiti, which was hit by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12 local time.

On Jan. 13, the Red Cross Society of China announced 1 million U.S. dollars in emergency aid to Haiti.

On Jan. 15, the Chinese government announced its decision to provide 30 million yuan worth of humanitarian emergency supplies to Haiti.

On Jan. 21, China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN Liu Zhenmin said China would contribute additional 2.6 million U.S. dollars in cash to Haiti.

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The PLAN navy chased off four pirates on January 22nd in response to a distress callAfter a year of deployment to the Gulf of Aden, the PLAN has not resorted to the use of deadly force in its dealings with the pirates (here). Richard Weitz offers a possible explanation.Priorities and Challenges in China’s Naval Deployment in the Horn of AfricaBy: Richard Weitzhttp://www.jamestown.org/programs/
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Taiwan wins respect through cooperation with China and Haiti : MaTaiwan News, Staff WriterPage 22010-01-21 12:00 AM http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1160516&lang=eng_news&cate_img=49.jpg&cate_rss=news_Society_TAIWANTaiwan had gained international respect through its relief work in Haiti and its cooperation with China, President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday.His own aim was to turn
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Jan.21 (China Military News cited from telegraph.co.uk and written by Dean Nelson) — The US wants to open Cold War-style arms reduction talks with China to prevent future military confrontations, Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, said in New Delhi on Wednesday.

His comments appeared to confirm Washington’s acceptance of China as a military superpower amid growing regional concerns over its build-up in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

China is currently undergoing a major overhaul of its armed forces. Beijing’s increasing number of nuclear submarine deployments have caused alarm in India, which regards China as its main regional rival.

China has further antagonised India by increasing military co-operation with India’s rival Pakistan, which is developing a new deep sea port at Gwadar, and neighbouring Burma.

India’s relations with China have deteriorated following a series of incursions along its disputed Himalayan border and a cyber attack last month on computers used by its top intelligence officials.

Mr Gates said he had discussed cyber security and China’s military build-up with the Indian prime minister and voiced America’s hopes to deepen understanding between Washington and Beijing on the issue.

He had been involved in the United States’ Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with the former Soviet Union during the Cold War, which he believed had played an important role in avoiding armed conflict between the two countries. He said the same approach could help relations with China today.

“There was discussion about China’s military modernisation programme, what it meant, what the intentions of that military build-up and the desire on our part to engage China in a more routine and in depth dialogue about our strategic intentions and plans to avoid any miscalculations or misunderstandings down the road.

“I was involved in the strategic arms talks (with the USSR). I’m not sure they reduced any arms but the dialogue and candour about nuclear capabilities, how each side looked at nuclear weapons, played a significant role in preventing miscalculations and mistakes during the Cold War. That kind of dialogue with China would be most productive and in the interest of global security,” he said.

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Jan.20 (China Military News cited from Computerworld and written by Jaikumar Vijayan) — The targeted cyberattacks apparently originating in China that hit Google and more than 30 other companies late last year are now targeting some U.S. defense contractors, according to security vendor F-Secure.

In a blog post this week, F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen said the company has learned of instances where malicious PDF files were e-mailed to U.S. defense contractors last week. The PDF file was designed to look like an official Department of Defense document and contained information about a real Mission Planning User Conference to be held in Las Vegas in March, he aqdded.

A screen shot of the document pasted onto the F-Secure blog shows a very authentic-looking Air Force written Memorandum for Mission Planning International Community.

Opening the PDF document using Adobe Reader allows hackers to exploit a previously disclosed vulnerability in the doc.media.newPlayer function of the reader to install a backdoor on the user’s system, Hypponen said. The backdoor connects to an IP address located in Taiwan. “Anybody who controls that IP will gain access to the infected computer and the company network,” Hyponnen wrote.

The blog post did not say how many contractors were targeted with e-mails containing the poisoned PDF files, but noted that they were more recent than the attacks on Google and others. “While the ‘Aurora’ attacks against Google and others happened in December 2009, this happened just last week,” he wrote.

On the surface at least, the attacks described by F-Secure appear to be similar to attacks last month on Indian government agencies and the country’s National Security Advisor that were also said to originate in China. The Dec. 15 attacks also involved corrupted PDF files being e-mailed to targeted individuals within these organizations.

News of the attacks against the contractors comes in the wake of Google’s bombshell announcement last week that it had been victimized by targeted attacks that appeared to have originated in China.

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China-Defense is asking for donations to Haiti to help with the relief efforts, together we can make a different.http://www.unicefusa.org/?gclid=CLrZpuLmuZ8CFQcQagodnC2y0Qhttp://www.oxfam.org/http://www.mercycorps.org/http://www.icrc.org/
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