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Jul.30 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) — China’s first high resolution, stereoscopic mapping satellite for civilian use will be launched during the second half of 2011, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping said Thursday.

The bureau said the ZY-3 will be sent into space by the Long March-4B carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China.

The satellite is expected to “provide steady and reliable data sources for surveying and mapping on the scale of 1:50,000.”

ZY-3 is to provide mapping to be used in wide-ranging sectors such as disaster prevention and reduction, water conservancy, agriculture, forestry, environmental protection, urban construction and planning, communications and national defense.

The bureau is also working with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation on the research and development of the next generation of satellites after the ZY-3.

The ZY-3 project was kicked off in March 2008. Three ground stations in Beijing, Kashgar in far west Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Sanya in the southernmost island province of Hainan, will receive and transmit satellite data.

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Jul.28 (China Military News cited from Postmedia News and written By Aileen McCabe) — Opposition is gathering in China to Washington’s renewed “national interest” in the territorial disputes over more than 200 tiny islands in the South China Sea.

In an editorial Tuesday, the official China Daily accused the U.S. of trying to “rekindle the feud” over ownership of the islands and warned its neighbours in Southeast Asia that Washington’s policy is “directed against China and intended to stir up trouble in those countries that have territorial disputes with the nation.”

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apparently took China by surprise when she told a forum of Southeast Asian nations in Hanoi last Friday that the U.S. considered it to be in its own interest to help settle the myriad of claims over the island territories.

Her statement was good news for many of the nations embroiled in disputes that are sometimes over little more than specks of rocky land. China’s rise as economic giant in the region and its increasing military might have countries like Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines worried about their longtime claims.

Now China is, too, it seems.

“It is crystal clear that the United States is attempting to coerce Southeast Asian nations into blowing out of proportion the South China Sea issue. This is a dangerous move,” the China Daily wrote.

In its editorial, the Global Times was even more blunt.

“With growing economic power China and the U.S. may encounter more clashes in China’s adjacent sea. Few Southeast Asian countries would like to get in the middle of Sino-U.S. tensions, but like many other regions they are caught in a dilemma: economically close to China, yet militarily guarded against China.

“Southeast Asian countries need to understand any attempt to maximize gains by playing a balancing game between China and the U.S. is risky,” it said.

While often not much more than rocky outcrops, the islands and islets are rich fishing grounds and on important shipping lanes for much of the merchandise and energy that comes in and out of the region. As well, there are growing expectations about oil and gas deposits in the sea under and around them.

China seized the Paracel Islands from Vietnam in the mid-1970s and now calls them the Xisha Islands and includes them on maps as part of Hainan island province. This year it announced plans to begin developing them for tourism.

Vietnam has never given up its claim, however, and the Philippines also dispute ownership of several of them.

The long string of Spratly Islands are claimed in their entirety by Vietnam, China and Taiwan and partially by several of their neighbours. China and Vietnam fought a brief naval battle over them in 1988 which claimed the lives of 70 Vietnamese sailors, but nothing was resolved.

In a statement Sunday, the Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi warned the U.S. against “internationalizing” the neighbourhood dispute. “It will only make matters worse and the resolution more difficult,” he said.

This war of words is playing out just as the U.S. and South Korea wrap-up the first phase of their controversial naval exercise in the Sea of Japan (or East Sea). The massive war games which involve about 20 ships, 200 aircraft and 8,000 personnel are a show of strength in response to the sinking of a South Korean warship this spring, apparently by the North Koreans.

China, which has yet to accept the international report blaming its ally, North Korea, for the attack, opposed the exercises vigorously earlier this month, but toned down its criticism when it became apparent the manoeuvres would go ahead regardless.

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Jul.28 (China Military News cited from AFP) — China has staged a large-scale military exercise on its east coast, state media reported, just as South Korea and the United States conduct their own major naval drill opposed by Beijing.

Artillery troops of the Nanjing Military Region, responsible for defending the nation’s eastern seaboard, conducted live ammunition exercises near the Yellow Sea, the official China News Service said.

The exercises included long-range rocket fire drills, it said in a report late on Tuesday.

Advertisement: Story continues belowThe primary aim was to conduct battlefield intelligence and reconnaissance exercises using equipment such as unmanned drone aircraft and radar, it said.

The military also tested a new type of rocket-fired artillery during the exercise, other media reports said.

It was unclear whether the exercise had been pre-planned or was in response to the joint naval drill currently underway between the United States and South Korea. Nor did the reports say exactly when the Chinese exercises took place.

China has expressed concern over the July 25-28 drill, which was initially supposed to be held in the Yellow Sea separating China and the Korean peninsula, but was later relocated to the Sea of Japan following Beijing’s protests.

The US-South Korean exercise is being conducted as a warning to North Korea – China’s ally – following the sinking of a South Korean warship blamed by Seoul and its allies on a North Korean submarine.

China is North Korea’s closest ally and trade partner and has refused to join international condemnation of Pyongyang for the incident.

It has warned against further actions, such as the US-South Korean military drills, that it fears could raise tensions in the region.

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Jul.24 (China Military News cited from Washington Post and written by John Pomfret) — The Obama administration’s announcement Thursday that it will resume relations with Indonesia’s special forces, despite the unit’s history of alleged atrocities and assassinations, is the most significant move yet by the United States to strengthen ties in East Asia as a hedge against China’s rise.

The push comes at the same time that the administration’s tone with China has turned tougher, especially on the nettlesome issue of human rights. In recent speeches and interactions with Chinese authorities, the administration has abandoned an earlier approach of patience and quiet engagement.

The decision to resume relations with Kopassus, the elite special forces of the Indonesian military, prompted strong criticism from advocates for human rights.

“In the Bush administration, we saw them seek military allies regardless of human rights abuses in pursuit of the war on terror,” said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director for Human Rights Watch. This administration, she said, “will seek military alliances regardless of human rights abuses — in response to China.”

Yang Jiechi meets Hillary Clinton in Vietnam’s capital

Other analysts said that given Indonesia’s transition toward democratic governance, it makes sense to reengage with powerful elements of its military, in part to build up counterweights to China’s increasing power in the region. China’s rise is also a significant factor in the Obama administration’s moves to strengthen ties with traditional allies, such as South Korea and Japan, as well as with Malaysia and Laos and even with Vietnam, a former foe. It also was a factor in the recent opening to Burma.

“Indonesia is the anchor country of ASEAN,” said Ernie Bower, an expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, on the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. “And there’s a recognition that you need to have a strong foundation in ASEAN to deal with China over time.”

In some cases, China’s diplomatic missteps have helped the administration improve ties with Asian nations. China’s decision not to criticize North Korea directly for allegedly sinking a South Korean warship and killing 46 South Korean sailors on March 26 is believed to have contributed to a significant warming of relations between Washington and Seoul. China’s continued opposition to planned U.S.-South Korean military exercises has only further helped bolster U.S. strategic ties with Seoul.

The buzzing of two Japanese warships by Chinese military helicopters in April was used by Japanese officials as political cover to support more fully Tokyo’s alliance with the United States. That event, coupled with the sinking of the South Korean warship, dampened talk, at least for the time being, within the ruling Democratic Party of Japan about refashioning the alliance with the United States and forging better relations with China.

But as Thursday’s move with Indonesia illustrates, it is not just traditional allies that have felt the Obama administration’s embrace.

Relations with Malaysia, for instance, have improved significantly despite concerns about the upcoming trial of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who is facing sodomy charges that many Malaysians and Western observe believe were trumped up to damage him politically.

In April, Malaysia’s prime minister, Najib Razak, met with President Obama on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington. The country earlier had passed an export control act that U.S. officials hope will make Malaysia less of a transshipment point for military-related technology to Iran. On Thursday, Malaysia deployed its first military unit to Afghanistan, to provide medical and dental services to Afghans.

Laos, considered by some in Washington to be all but a client state of Beijing, dispatched this month its highest-level delegation to the United States since 1975 with the visit of Foreign Minister Thongloun Sisoulith.

The Obama administration also ended eight years of Bush administration policy on Burma, also known as Myanmar, by reaching out to that nation — in part because of a concern that it was becoming a vassal to China. So far, that policy has yielded few gains, and the administration is considering whether to slap tougher sanctions on Burma and whether to back a U.N. war- crimes or genocide investigation against that country’s leaders.

Analysts noted that as the Obama administration has moved to strengthen its ties to the rest of Asia, it has adopted a tougher tone with China on human rights.

The administration entered office with a new approach on China over human rights.

It postponed a meeting with the Dalai Lama in an attempt to set a good tone with Beijing in the run-up to a summit between Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao in November. And it signaled that it would deal with human rights issues with Beijing generally behind closed doors because the United States needs China’s help on so many other issues, such as nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea, dealing with the global financial crisis and climate change.

But starting in January, with a strong speech on Internet freedom by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during which she criticized China five times, the administration has changed tactics. China has helped drive that change by handing out long sentences to dissidents whose cases were directly raised by Obama in his meeting with Hu and by sentencing an American, Xue Feng, to eight years in prison on apparently bogus charges of espionage. Clinton continued her criticism of China in a speech in Krakow on civil society on July 3.

“The President and Secretary Clinton have articulated a notion of principled engagement with China and around the world,” said Michael H. Posner, assistant secretary of state for human rights, democracy and labor, “and our task now is to continue putting meat on the bones.”

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Jul.28 (China Military News cited from The wall street journal) — Hillary Clinton had the temerity to offer a few anodyne suggestions about the South China Sea at the Asean Regional Forum meeting in Hanoi last week. Soon after, China’s Foreign Minister lashed out at the U.S. Secretary of State, and dyspeptic editorials from the state media are coming fast. Hear, hear: The U.S. is finally pushing back against China’s bullying in Southeast Asia.

Mrs. Clinton urged the creation of a binding code of conduct for the six states claiming disputed islands in the South China Sea, including China, as well as an institutional process for resolving those claims. “The United States has a national interest in freedom of navigation, open access to Asia’s maritime commons and respect for international law in the South China Sea,” Mrs. Clinton said.

This seems reasonable enough, since one-third of the world’s shipping transits through the South China Sea, its waters are rich fishing grounds, and the seabed is believed to hold huge oil and gas reserves. But Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi took this as an “attack” on China, saying that “nobody believes there’s anything that is threatening the region’s peace and stability.”

That’s not how Southeast Asians see it. Vietnam sought to put the South China Sea code of conduct on the agenda at the ARF meeting, over China’s objections. China ejected Vietnam from one of the Spratly Islands in 1988 in a sea battle that claimed more than 70 Vietnamese lives, and there have been more recent skirmishes.

China has established a worrying M.O. in these waters, sometimes referred to as “talk and take.” In 1992, Beijing signed the Asean Declaration on the South China Sea, designed to protect the status quo. But three years later, it seized Mischief Reef from the Philippines and eventually built a military outpost there.

Chinese PLA Soldiers in Yongshu Dao, one island in South China sea

The islands dispute is heating up again because Chinese officials and scholars have begun to classify the country’s claims as part of its “core interests”—a category previously reserved for Tibet and Taiwan. On China’s maps, it draws a U-shaped line around almost the entire sea, encroaching on other nations’ continental shelves. Beijing’s historical claims to the islands are tenuous and probably wouldn’t withstand scrutiny under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which China is a signatory.

Of greater concern to maritime powers without a direct claim to the islands is the principle of free navigation. Last year, Chinese boats sought to drive a U.S. Navy surveillance vessel, the USNS Impeccable, out of international waters south of Hainan Island. This month, Beijing intimidated the U.S. into not sending the aircraft carrier USS George Washington into the Yellow Sea for exercises. Essentially China would like to extend its territorial waters, which usually run to 12 miles, to include the entire exclusive economic zone, which extends 200 miles.

Only U.S. involvement can give Asean enough confidence to insist that Beijing submit to international law. After years of Washington placating Beijing, the danger of allowing China to bully its neighbors seems to be sinking in. Undoubtedly more friction is to come, but Asean and its friends have an opportunity to unite to show Beijing that its claims are unacceptable.

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Jul.22 (China Military Newws cited from AFP) –  CHINA’S Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi called for restraint from all parties on Sunday, as the US and South Korea launched a major naval exercise despite threats of nuclear retaliation by North Korea.

‘All involved parties should commit to providing peace and security on the Korean peninsula,’ Mr Yang told a joint press conference in Vienna, after meeting with his Austrian counterpart Michael Spindelegger.

Washington and Seoul said the war games, which began on Sunday in the Sea of Japan, were meant as a message to Pyongyang to cease its aggressive behaviour, following allegations it torpedoed a South Korean warship in March.

But North Korea threatened to respond with nuclear weapons. Mr Yang told journalists that Pyongyang should return to so-called six-party talks, aimed at dismantling its nuclear programme but stalled since December 2008, the Austrian Press Agency reported.

He also insisted that world powers should intensify diplomatic talks on Iran’s nuclear programme, APA said. The UN Security Council imposed a new set of sanctions on Teheran in early June, and EU ministers were due to approve further sanctions on Monday in a bid to lure Iran back to the negotiating table over its disputed nuclear programme.

Mr Yang and Mr Spindelegger met briefly on Sunday afternoon to discuss bilateral relations and their cooperation at the UN Security Council, where Austria currently holds a non-permanent seat. The Chinese foreign minister was due to attend the opening of the Salzburg Festival Sunday evening before meeting with Austrian President Heinz Fischer on Monday.

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Jul.22 (China Military News cited from guardian.co.uk) — The People’s Liberation Army has unveiled its first department dedicated to tackling cyber war threats and protecting information security, Chinese media reported today.

The move comes just over a year after the United States created a cyber command.

The PLA Daily said the military announced the creation of the Information Security Base on Monday, giving few more details in its brief report.

But an officer in the General Staff headquarters, which directly oversees the new department, told the Global Times: “It is a ‘defensive’ base for information security, not an offensive headquarters for cyber war.”

He said the base would be used to gather online information and “build up walls” to safeguard confidential military information.

Ni Lexiong, a Shanghai-based military analyst, told the South China Morning Post: “The USCYBERCOM aims at coping with hacker attacks as well as other cyber attacks, which means the internet will become another key battlefield in tomorrow’s world.

“It’s a very important message to the PLA because the army did not have a united and centralised management system to command its information technology centres in different forces.”

Christian Le Miere, senior Asia analyst for Jane’s Country Risk, said: “Every major military has to be concerned about cyberwar.

“There was maybe some form of taboo [about setting up a dedicated centre], but as soon as the US does it, everyone says ‘we can have one too’.”

Le Miere said such security issues had gained attention after Estonia suffered cyberattacks which some blamed on Russia and Chinese faced allegations of state complicity in attacks on US sites.

“It is seen as an increasingly useful arena for competition and quasi-military espionage,” he said.

A recent report warned that Nato was increasingly vulnerable to cyberwarfare and US deputy defence secretary William Lynn said in a speech last year: “We know … that both Russia and China have the capability to disrupt elements of other nations’ information infrastructure.”

Discussing attacks on American governmental, military and private networks, he said the Pentagon had traced some back to China but “[could] not attribute whether it’s a private, public, whether it’s military, intelligence, industry or criminal.”

But China also feels vulnerable. Earlier this year, Professor Fang Binxing, president of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, said the US was “without question the world’s foremost power in cyber-based attacks and defence”, amd that Chinese capabilities remained very backward.

An official with the National Computer Network Emergency Response Team accused foreign countries of “rumour mongering and overstating the cyber threat from Chinese hackers … covering up their political purpose of building up a cyber army”.

Officials have denied any state involvement in hacking and said China is one of the biggest victims.

The Chinese military recently banned its soldiers from blogging or setting up their own websites – even when on leave – with Wan Long, the political commissar of a regiment telling the PLA Daily: “The internet is complicated and we should guard against online traps.”

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Jul.23 (China Military News cited from AFP) – Resolving disputes over the South China Sea is “pivotal” to regional stability, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at security talks on Friday.

Her comments came as China increasingly asserts its power in the region, causing concern to nearby countries as well as the United States.

US commanders have made it clear they are watching China’s military buildup, particularly its naval reach into the South China Sea.

Beijing’s claims over potentially resource-rich archipelagos in the South China Sea conflict with those of some members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

One South China Sea Island held in PLA Army

ASEAN favours a united front on the South China Sea issue but Beijing prefers to deal with the matter bilaterally with individual claimants, and was not happy that Clinton and 11 other delegates raised the matter in Friday’s talks, diplomats said.

In Vietnam, which hosted the 27-member ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) security dialogue, the maritime sovereignty dispute evokes strong public emotions.

Hanoi periodically reports cases of Vietnamese fishing boats and equipment being seized by Chinese vessels.

“The United States has a national interest in freedom of navigation, open access to Asia’s maritime commons, and respect for international law in the South China Sea,” Clinton said in remarks prepared for the ARF, Asia’s largest security dialogue.

“We oppose the use or threat of force by any claimant,” she said.

At a security meeting in Singapore last June, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Washington objected to any effort to “intimidate” US energy firms in the region.

In a veiled warning to China, Gates alluded to Beijing’s alleged threats against some US oil and gas companies interested in off-shore exploration in waters claimed by Vietnam.

ASEAN hopes to ultimately agree with China a binding “regional code of conduct” that will govern actions in the South China Sea and replace a non-binding “declaration” by the claimants not to take destabilising actions in the area.

“We encourage the parties to reach agreement on a full Code of Conduct,” Clinton said.

In January, Beijing froze bilateral military ties with Washington over US weapons sales to Taiwan.

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Looks like the military exercise between Shanghai Cooperation Organization is becoming an annual occurrence instead of bi-annual.

According to rian, the next one will be this September. Previously, Peace Mission had taken place in 2005, 2007 and 2009. The article is as follows:

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will conduct a series of anti-terror drills from September 9 – 25 in Kazakhstan, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

The exercise, codenamed Peace Mission 2010, will be held at the Matybulak base near the town of Gvardeisky with each of the SCO member states (China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) contributing at least one operational-tactical group.

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The drills will test the interoperability of the SCO armed forces in rendering assistance to a member state involved in an internal armed conflict or subjected to a mass terrorist attack.

In many ways, these exercises have come full circle. In 2005, it involved 10,000 soldiers and was widely reported by different media circles. At that time, Russians were using the exercise as an opportunity to show off new hardware to export to China. Russians also showed themselves to be much better than PLA in all of the different missions. As time went on, PLA have improved a lot in the past 2 exercises, but there is a still a large gap between the operational capability of the two forces. Much of that is due to the less intensive and realistic training method of PLA. The Russians have had recent ground combats, so they have used those live combat experience to develop training procedure and ROE that is much more effective than that of PLA. Even as late as 2009, PLA commanders commented that they were impressed with Russian troops strictness in cleaning and maintaining equipments and their ability to fly and enter battle zones in their helicopter at much lower altitude.

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Pakistan Defense Minister Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar offers his Indonesian counterpart the latest jet fighter called the JF-17 during his visit to Jakarta on Wednesday.

Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro responded to the offer, saying that further discussion would be conducted in October.

Minister Mukhtar was here to sign the Defense Cooperation Agreement between the two countries at the Defense Ministry.

“We will see it first before we decide if we have an interest in purchasing the aircraft,” Purnomo said.

He said the JF-17 jet fighter was the product of a joint production between Pakistan and China. The manufacturers claimed the jet to be cheaper and stronger than the US F-16.

Purnomo said he learned there had been 500 JF-17 jet fighters produced; 350 are allocated for Pakistan and the remaining 150 are for China.

“I have been informed that Pakistan’s jet fighter’s level is above the US F-16 jet fighter, as well as Russia’s Sukhoi. But we need to see it first hand,” he said.

Minister Mukhtar said the jet fighter project was a result of years of engineering improvements that was made by the Pakistan defense industry back home.

“We have developed our defense industry properly, we have prepared for those who plan to disrupt our peace,” he said.

Pakistan Ambassador to Indonesia Sanaullah, who also attended the press conference, promoted the product, saying the aircraft had met the requirements to be used by the Indonesian military.

The Defense Ministry is currently developing its own jet fighter project with South Korea. Dubbed the KFX project, the project is aimed at providing both countries with five jet fighter prototypes before 2020.

Mass production of the KFX jet fighter is expected to take place after the project reaches its break-even point of 200 aircraft units.

Bhatara Ibnu Reza, Imparsial’s research coordinator, warned that the Indonesian military should prioritize the improvement of its own defense industry.

He said if offers like that from Pakistan contributed to the reinforcement of the country’s defense industry, then Imparsial suggested Indonesia take advantage of it.

“I strongly suggest that we pay serious attention to rebuilding our defense industry so it becomes a strong backbone for the future,” he told The Jakarta Post.

In addition to offering the jet fighter, the Pakistan defense minister also tightened cooperation in the field of education and sharing intelligence on counterterrorism.

Both countries have also planned to conduct a joint naval exercise in December this year.

“We face similar internal security problems here. Therefore cooperation will enable us to tackle these problems,” he said.

The Pakistani defense minister visit is the latest, after China’s Central Military Commissioner, Guo Boxiong, visited the country in May.

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