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LONDON — After nearly two decades of double-digit increases in its military budget, China announced a mere 7.5 percent jump in its defense budget this year. It was the first time since the 1980s that China’s defense spending had increased by a single-digit percentage. The Chinese government maintained that while this increase will be used to enhance China’s ability to meet various threats, the …
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Why Is China Slowing its Military Spending? from china-defense-mashup.com
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Mar.11 (China Military News cited from Time.com and written by Austin Ramzy) — For the past two decades, China’s rapid economic growth has been twinned with an even more rapid increase in military spending. While GDP has expanded by an annual average of 9.6% over the past 10 years, the reported budget for the People’s Liberation Army has grown by an average of 16%. So it was an unexpected surprise when Li Zhaoxing, a former foreign minister who is now spokesman for the National People’s Congress, announced on March 4 that China’s defense budget would increase by 7.5% for 2010, just over half of last year’s 14.9% rise.
The slowdown was partly attributed the difficult economic climate. While China was able to grow at 8.7% last year, that healthy rate came at the expense of $586 billion in stimulus spending. Last week Premier Wen Jiabao said that government spending would grow more slowly this year as Beijing seeks to control inflation while maintaining stable growth.
Amid those economic demands, another double-digit increase in military spending might be seen as excessive. But perhaps the most compelling reason for the slowdown in spending is that Chinese officials have become more cautious of the way the development of the People’s Liberation Army is perceived abroad. Last year China marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic with an Oct. 1 military parade in front of Tiananmen Square. While generally a cause for celebration in China, the parade of soldiers, tanks and missile carriers was seen as intimidating by many foreign observers.
Chinese military analysts have explained the rapid spending increase as normal for a large nation climbing out of decades of poverty. “Although China now has a growing military demand, it has always upheld the principle of peaceful development. The double-digit increases in the past should be interpreted as compensational growth,” says Zhao Zongjiu, deputy secretary-in-general at Shanghai Institute for International Strategic Studies, a government-backed think tank. “I predict that, given the current policy environment, the growth rate of military expenses will remain roughly on the same level as China’s GDP growth in the next few years.”
China’s 2010 military budget, which is awaiting legislative approval, will be $78 billion. That would make it second only to the United States, which for 2010 has a total budget of $663.8 billion. U.S. spending is equivalent to 4.7% of the nation’s GDP, while China’s defense outlay equals about 1.5% of its estimated 2010 GDP.
But military observers have long cautioned that China’s official defense budget figures shouldn’t be taken at face value, and that actual spending could be two or three times higher than what is reported. China is engaged in a significant number of expensive military equipment development programs, including likely efforts to develop its first aircraft carrier. Those all make it difficult to curtail spending, says Andrei Chang, Hong Kong-based editor-in-chief of Kanwa Defense Review Monthly. “There are very ambitious military plans for the Chinese,” he says. “This is the reason it’s impossible to have an increase of 7.5%.”
Improving ties with Taiwan have also lessened some of the military tension along China’s periphery. Beijing considers the self-ruled island a breakaway province that should ultimately be reunited with the mainland, by force if necessary. A more China-friendly leadership in Taipei has helped eased some of the fear of armed conflict. But the region still has the potential to be a flash point. Taiwan says China has some 1,500 missiles stationed along the Taiwan Strait. And a decision by U.S. President Obama in January to approve the sale of more than $6 billion in military equipment to Taiwan has angered the Chinese government, which has postponed some military exchanges with the U.S. in protest.
Chang also notes that China is just two years away from an expected reconfiguration of its leadership. President Hu Jintao is expected to step down, and will want to secure high positions for his political allies. Drastically curtailing defense spending could alienate the military, whose support he needs to ensure top spots for his proteges. “The new round of political power struggle is continuing,” Chang says. “You have to give souvenirs to the armed forces.”
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China’s defense spending to increase 7.5% in 2010 from chinesemil.blogspot.com
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BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) — China plans to increase its national defense spending by 7.5 percent to 519.082 billion yuan (about 76.3 billion U.S. dollars) in 2010, according to a draft budget report.
The figure, about 36 billion yuan more than that of last year, consists of 518.577 billion yuan of central government spending and 505 million yuan of transfer payments to local governments.
These funds will be used mainly to modernize the army, according to the draft submitted to the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, which started its annual session Friday morning.
Ding Jiye, deputy head of the General Logistics Department of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), offered a more specific breakdown of the defense spending.
“These funds would be used for the PLA’s mechanization and informationization, to support the reform of army and improve its capability to deal with varied threats and complete diversified tasks,” Ding told Xinhua Friday.
Part of the money would also be spent to improve the servicemen’s living standards, as well as basic military facilities, Ding said.
Although China’s defense expenditure had been on rise over the past years, “its growth was still limited and the defense spending still fell short,” he said.
The PLA would make more efficient use of the defense expenditure to further improve its capabilities, Ding said.
Friday’s draft budget report added that China’s national defense spending in 2009 came to 482.985 billion yuan, 102.1 percent of the budgeted figure and a year-on-year increase of 72.844 billion yuan or 17.8 percent.
These funds were also used to improve the living conditions and benefits of army officers and enlisted personnel, intensify the development of informationization, increase the army’s equipment and supporting facilities by an appropriate amount, and improve its ability to respond to emergencies and disasters.
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China circled by chain of US anti-missile systems from china-defense-mashup.com
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Feb.21 (China Military News cited from Chinadaily and written by Qin Jize and Li Xiaokun) — washington appears determined to surround China with US-built anti-missile systems, military scholars have observed.
According to US-based Defense News, Taiwan became the fifth global buyer of the Patriot missile defense system last year following Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Arab Emirates and Germany.
Quite a few military experts have noted that Washington’s latest proposed weapon deal with Taiwan is the key part of a US strategic encirclement of China in the East Asian region, and that the missiles could soon have a footprint that extends from Japan to the Republic of Korea and Taiwan.
Air force colonel Dai Xu, a renowned military strategist, wrote in an article released this month that “China is in a crescent-shaped ring of encirclement. The ring begins in Japan, stretches through nations in the South China Sea to India, and ends in Afghanistan. Washington’s deployment of anti-missile systems around China’s periphery forms a crescent-shaped encirclement”.
Ni Lexiong, an expert on military affairs with the Shanghai Institute of Political Science and Law, told the Guanghzou Daily yesterday, “The US anti-missile system in China’s neighborhood is a replica of its strategy in Eastern Europe against Russia. The Obama administration began to plan for such a system around China after its project in Eastern Europe got suspended”.
Tang Xiaosong, director of the Center of International Security and Strategy Studies with Guangdong University of Foreign Studies noted that the ring encircling China can also be expanded at any time in other directions. He said that Washington is hoping to sell India and other Southeast Asian countries the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 missile defense system.
Analysts say that China is closely monitoring US-India missile defense cooperation since any integration of India into the US global missile defense system, would profoundly affect China’s security.
However, according to former Chinese Ambassador to India Pei Yuanying, India is unlikely to be part of any such US scheme against China.
“New Delhi needs to develop relations with the US, but it wants to be an independent international power on the international arena,” he said.
Pei said it was necessary to take multiple aspects of China-US relations into consideration. “The US has followed the policy of engagement plus containment with China for a long time and that overall policy will not change during Obama’s term,” he said.
Defense News quoted John Holly, Lockheed’s vice president of Missile Defense Systems as saying the outlook for the missile defense market remains sound.
Pointing to missile programs in Pyongyang, Teheran, Moscow and Beijing, Holly said “the world is not a very safe world and it is incumbent upon us in the industry to provide (the Pentagon) with the best capabilities.”
Beijing has frequently criticized US missile-defense development and has been making efforts to restrict missile defenses through the United Nations forums.
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told a UN disarmament conference in August in Geneva that “countries should neither seek for absolute strategic predominance nor develop missile-defense systems that undermine global strategic stability.”
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Sino-Russian first joint patrol conducted along boundary river from china-defense-mashup.com
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Feb.02 (China Military News cited from PLAdaily and written by Guo Jianyue and Gao Pengfei) — The Chinese and Russian frontier defense troops accomplished the first joint patrol along the Argun River, an iced Sino-Russian boundary river in the east of Inner Mongolia of People’s Republic of China (PRC), between January 25 and 26.
According to the commander of the Hulun Buir Military Sub-Command of the Inner Mongolia Military Command, the Sino-Russian joint patrol this time not only enhanced mutual trust and understanding between the Chinese and Russian border representative organs, but also laid a more solid foundation for the Chinese and Russian frontier defense troops to construct a peaceful and stable frontier environment through concerted efforts.
Offciers of Chinese and Russian boundary defense troops
In spite of that the temperature in the Greater Khingan Mountains in the east of Inner Mongolia was as low as 30 degrees Centigrade below zero at 8:30 a.m. on January 25, the Sino-Russian frontier defense troops carried out their joint-patrol along the iced border river as planned.
The patrol personnel entered the iced boundary Argun River from the Chinese territory and then headed northward following the No. 111 border marker before finally arriving at the No. 124 border marker on the afternoon of January 26, covering a distance of 200 km in total.
The personnel participating in the joint patrol had determined on carrying out such tasks as jointly inspecting the order of the covered border section, checking the border markers and greeting the officers and men performing duty at the sentry posts.
Some officers and men from each of the Sino-Russian frontier sentries along the border river were also dispatched to join in the joint patrol in such forms as taking a vehicle and riding a motorcycle or a sled.
It is learned that in the coming summer the Sino-Russian joint patrol by boat will be staged along the boundary Argun River and a Sino-Russian joint military exercise will be carried out to crack down on the cross-border smuggling and sorts of other illegal activities in the Sino-Russian border area so as to guarantee the stability and prosperity in that area.
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China, Iran Prompt U.S. Air-Sea Battle Plan in Strategy Review from china-defense-mashup.com
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Feb.01 (China Military Newx cited from Bloomberg and written by Viola Gienger and Tony Capaccio) — The U.S. military is drawing up a new air-sea battle plan in response to threats such as China’s persistent military build-up and Iran’s possession of advanced weapons, according to the Pentagon’s latest strategy review.
The Air Force and Navy are seeking more effective ways of ensuring continued access to the western Pacific and countering potential threats to American bases and personnel, according to the Quadrennial Defense Review to be released later today.
The joint Air Force-Navy plan would combine the strengths of each service to conduct long-range strikes that could utilize a new generation of bombers, a new cruise missile and drones launched from aircraft carriers. The Navy also is increasing funding to develop an unmanned underwater vehicle, according to the report.
Z-9 Helicopter and anti-submarine torpedo
The battle plan is among a range of new initiatives outlined in the review, which is conducted every four years to revise U.S. military strategy for the coming decade or more. The new report places top priority on the fights in Afghanistan and Iraq and against terrorist threats elsewhere, while also preparing for future threats.
“This is truly a wartime QDR,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote in a cover letter for the report. “For the first time, it places the current conflicts at the top of our budgeting, policy and program priorities.”
Two-War Capability
The review deemphasizes but does not abandon the Pentagon’s doctrine that calls for the military to be able to fight two major wars nearly simultaneously. It acknowledges this mission but says planning should focus more closely on other scenarios, such as irregular warfare including conflicts involving insurgents or drug traffickers and even humanitarian disasters.
“In the mid- to long-term, U.S. military forces must plan and prepare to prevail in a broad range of operations that may occur in multiple theaters in overlapping time frames,” the Defense Department says in the review.
Air-defense missile of PLA Navy Type 052B Destroyer
“This includes maintaining the ability to prevail against two capable nation-state aggressors,” it states.
Alluding to China in his cover letter, Gates cites longer- term threats such as “the military modernization programs of other countries.” He also hints at dangers such as al-Qaeda in referring to “non-state groups developing more cunning and destructive means to attack the United States and our allies and partners.”
Tensions With China
U.S. officials have often called on their Chinese counterparts to provide explanations and assurances that their moves are purely defensive. The two countries resumed military talks last June, then China halted visits again over the Defense Department’s Jan. 29 announcement of a new arms sale to Taiwan.
China is developing and deploying “large numbers” of advanced missiles, new attack submarines, long-range air defense systems and capabilities to wage electronic warfare and target computer systems, according to the report, which echoes an assessment of China’s military power issued almost a year ago.
China’s refusal to provide adequate assurances of its intentions raises “a number of legitimate questions regarding its long-term intentions,” the Pentagon says in the review.
Citing “more complex” security conditions in the region, including North Korea and terrorist threats in Southeast Asia, the review calls for “a more widely distributed” and flexible U.S. presence in Asia that relies more on allies. Partners would include Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
Threat From Iran
In the Middle East, Iran is fielding small attack boats in the Persian Gulf, a development that U.S. officials have cited in the past. That compounds the threat to naval operations from the acquisition by Iran and other nations of weapons such as quiet submarines and advanced cruise missiles that can target ships, according to the report.
Iran also has provided drones and shoulder-fired missiles to the Islamic militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Russia and other nations have contributed to the spread of surface-to- air missiles, the department said.
Among the solutions proposed are more ways to deploy U.S. forces abroad, such as naval assets, “in regions facing new challenges.” Existing bases also need to be either hardened to protect against potential attacks or reinforced with back-up locations or by dispersing them in multiple places, the department concluded.
The Pentagon has about 400,000 U.S. military personnel stationed overseas, either in war zones or elsewhere. The review emphasizes “taking care of our people” serving in multiple long deployments that take a “significant toll” on them and their families.
Other Concerns
In addition to supporting existing wars, the Quadrennial review emphasizes the need for more unmanned aircraft, intelligence, special forces, helicopters and long-range strike capabilities as well as skills such as foreign languages and training of foreign military forces.
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The U.S. military, especially the Navy and Air Force, also should find better and faster ways to strengthen the defense systems of foreign allies and partners as needed, the Pentagon said.
The Pentagon should continue to maintain a nuclear arsenal as a “core mission” until “such time as the administration’s goal of a world free of nuclear weapons is achieved,” according to the report.
The potential threat of cyber attacks and the need to conduct “high-tempo operations” will require more expertise in that field and centralized command of cyber operations, the department said.
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China suspends military visits with U.S. over planned arms sales to Taiwan from china-defense-mashup.com
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BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — China on Saturday decided to suspend scheduled visits between the Chinese and U.S. armed forces, in response to Washington’s plan to sell a package of arms worth about 6.4 billion U.S. dollars to Taiwan.
“We made the decision out of considerations on the severe harm of the U.S. arms sales to Taiwan,” said Defense Ministry spokesman Huang Xueping in a statement.
The U.S. government on Friday announced the plans to sell a package of arms to Taiwan, which include Patriot missiles, Black Hawk helicopters and minesweepers. China immediately expressed strong indignation about the sale after the U.S. government notified the U.S. Congress of the plans.
Qian Lihua, director of the Defense Ministry’s Foreign Affairs Office, on Saturday summoned the defense attache of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing to lodge a stern protest.
“The Chinese military expresses grave indignation and strongly condemns such a move to grossly interfere into China’s internal affairs and harm China’s national security interests,” Qian said in a press release of the office.
Taiwan issue is related to China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and concerns China’s core interests.
“The U.S. arms sales to Taiwan gravely violates the three joint communiques between China and the United States, and seriously endangers China’s national security and harms China’s reunification course,” Qian said.The U.S. such move also constitutes severe violation of the agreements reached by the top leaders of both sides on the China-U.S. relations in the new situation, he said.
Bayi-Building, the location of Chinese Defense Ministry
It runs counter to the principles of the joint statement issued during U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to China in November last year, said Qian.
The U.S. plan will definitely bring about serious negative impact on the relations between the two countries and militaries, and will to the end severely undermine the interests of the United States itself, he noted.
The United States have reiterated in many occasions that it will adhere to the one-China policy, abide by the three joint communiques and support the peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Straits.
“However, the United States now takes faithless action to sell arms to Taiwan again,” Qian said such plans severely poison the political foundation of the relations between the two militaries, and produce grave obstacles to military exchanges between the two sides.
Qian urged the United States to respect China’s core interests and concerns, take practical actions to abide by its solemn commitments on Taiwan issue, withdraw its arms sales items to Taiwan, and stop military links with Taiwan, in order not to create further damage to the relations between the two countries and the two militaries and to the peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits.
“We reserve the right of taking further actions,” he noted.
According to Huang, the spokesman, “such a move is gravely against especially the ‘Aug. 17′ communique signed in 1982.”
The U.S. side states in the Communique that “it does not seek to carry out a long-term policy of arms sales to Taiwan” and “intends to reduce gradually its sales of arms to Taiwan, leading over a period of time to a final resolution.”
“We will never give in or compromise in this issue,” the statement quoted Huang as saying, noting that the Chinese military will firmly fight against any move to destroy China’s national sovereignty security and territorial integrity.
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Military contractors targeted in Chinese attacks, says F-Secure from china-defense-mashup.com
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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.
The attack on Google — and more than 30 other technology companies — last week prompted the U.S. State Department to say it will be lodging a formal complaint seeking an explanation from the Chinese government.
China itself meanwhile has denied any involvement in the alleged cyberattacks and called itself a victim of such hackers.
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(RTTNews) – American lawmakers Wednesday expressed serious concern over Chinese military build-up–a view shared by senior defense officials of the Obama Administration–at a Congressional hearing, ahead of the Quadrennial Defense Review’s recommendations about the country’s security policy for Asia.
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US official questions China space intentions from spacedaily.com
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Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2010 – A senior US defense official on Wednesday voiced doubts about China’s insistence that its use of space is for peaceful means as Washington appealed for steady military ties with the rising Asian power.
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Breaking News, China finishes its first Missile Defense Test!! from china-defense-mashup.com
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Jan.11 (China Military News reporting by Johnathan Weng) – Beijing local time PM 9:00 Januray 11 on 2010, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that China has successfully finished a ground-Based midcourse missile interception test in the territory of China.
The ministry says that the test has reached the technological purpose and this behavior is purely defensive and not directed at any third country or bloc of countries.
According to some Chinese resources, the designation number of Chinese ground-based interception missile is HQ-19, which has been finished the trial test in 2003. Chinese Government has made the ballistic missile defense technology as the part of “863 National Advanced Defense Project”. The initiation of HQ-19 project is believed to start in 1995. HQ-19’s warhead is a 35-kg Kinetic Kill Vehicle (KKV). In 1999, HQ-19’s KKV successfully passed its first “hovering test” and it let China become the second country except U.S., which realizes the milestone in Kinetic killing vehicle development.
The HQ-19’s warhead is a light KKV with Three-axial Stabilization. The interceptor has 4 orbital maneuver propulsion thrusters and 6 attitude control thrusters, controlled by DACS (Digital Attitude Control System).
Besides, some Chinese people believe that the HQ-19 is a variant of KT series rocket.
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Chinese Missile Defense Test Witness:
Time: a few minutes to PM 8:00
Location: Jiuquan, Gansu Province (GPS Position: 39.646411,98.347893)
Witness Description: From the elevation of about 45 degrees in the north-west sky, I found a positive white circular Clumps about the size of dozens of moons. My first judge was the moon created a very personalized style halo. My colleagues and I immediately look for the moon, while preparing the camera and prepared to dial a news hotline.
But soon we discovered there is no moon on that position, while the white Clumps is rapidly expanding. In the tens of seconds of time, it quickly expanded to a half of the sky, and gradually fades. I suddenly think if it will be some nuclear explosions. Subsequently, the flashes appeared in the center of white Clumps. The flashes were not very strong, when it felt as if a mass of white fog.
My colleagues and I have guessed that it maybe a alien trip from another planet. But the flash and fog-like clumps have quickly dimmed. We do not have warned others, nor photograph the whole progress by the camera. We even didn’t have time to report to news media. This odd scene just lasted 2-3 minutes.
I analyzed that the whole process looks more like an explosion. But it is rather strange is that why there have no even the slightest sound before and after. Because here is a military zone, so I have heard the voices of a variety of artillery shells exploded. And it is is really puzzling that the strong shock wave in the sky did not bring any sounds.
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One picture of this missile defense test, photoed by one Chinese people’s cellphone
Time: UTC+8 PM 7:45, Jan.11, 2010 Location: some place near the Urumqi City, the captial city of Xinjiang
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China, India hold 3rd round of defense consultation from china-defense-mashup.com
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Jan.08 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) — China and India held the third round of defense consultation here Wednesday, according to a press release from the Information Office of China’s Defense Ministry Friday.
Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Ma Xiaotian and visiting Indian Defense Secretary Pradeep Kumar jointly presided over the consultation, during which they exchanged views and reached some consensus on bilateral ties, regional security, national defense policies and military exchanges and cooperation.
Soldiers in “Joint Hands-2008″ Sino-India Joint Exercise
During the consultations, the Chinese side expressed its concern to the Indian side over the irresponsible remarks made by a few Indian leaders and some Indian media’s untrue reports.
The Chinese side stressed that both China and India should do more work, which will be favorable for boosting healthy bilateral ties, so as to facilitate the good environment and conditions for China-India relations.
The Indian side said that India’s high-level officials endeavored to clarify the related remarks and those untrue reports and hoped to develop the friendly relations between India and China.
The year 2010, when China will celebrate its “India Year” and India its “China Year”, marked the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
Both sides agreed that the two countries should take this opportunity to strengthen mutual trust, promote cooperation and work together for a better development environment as well as the regional and international peace and stability.
The first consultation was held in 2008.
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Chinese General Warning sanction the US firms behind the arm sales to Taiwan from china-defense-mashup.com
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December.08 ( China Military News cited from China Daily ) — China yesterday urged the United States to cancel a massive arms deal to Taiwan, warning of severe consequences if it does not heed the call.
The US defense department announced the contract late on Wednesday, allowing US company Lockheed Martin Corp to sell an unspecified number of Patriot air defense missiles to the island.
The hardware, some of the best in its class, could shoot down the Chinese mainland’s short-range and mid-range missiles, Reuters quoted defense analysts as saying.
“This is the last piece that Taiwan has been waiting on,” Wendell Minnick, Asia bureau chief of Defense Weekly, said.
The sale rounds out a broad $6.5-billion arms package approved under former US president George W. Bush in late 2008, he said.
The deal is currently pending notification to the US Congress.
The Foreign Ministry yesterday urged the US “to clearly recognize the severe consequences of arms sales to Taiwan” and protested to Washington, spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a news briefing.
The Ministry of National Defense told China Daily last night it was checking the information with the US.
Jin Canrong, deputy dean of the International Studies School at Renmin University of China, said Beijing is almost certain to retaliate against Washington if the deal is consummated.
“It is likely to freeze military exchanges. It will make the US very uncomfortable because of all the world’s strategic military powers, the US is most eager to learn about the PLA.”
Rear-Admiral Yang Yi, an expert at the Institute of Strategic Studies of the National Defense University, said it was time for China to sanction the US arms firms behind the deal.
Rear-Admiral Yang Yi
“When it comes to a question of principles, we should never make concessions,” he said.
Some US companies which sell weapons to Taiwan also want to sell aircraft and other goods to China, added Yang, without naming any firms.
“Why don’t we take defensive countermeasures against them? Apart from just protesting to the US government, why don’t we impose sanctions on these troublemakers?”
Sooner or later, Washington will recognize the arms sales “hurt both itself and others” as it will suffer from strained relations with China, Yang said.
He also rebuffed claims that the arms sales will not stop as they are stipulated in US law. “There is nothing in the world that can never be changed We should make continuous efforts to reshape the policy choices of the US”.
However, Niu Jun, a professor on US studies at Peking University, questioned the feasibility of sanctions as the US will, in turn, penalize Chinese companies.
But Chinese netizens have spontaneously called for a boycott of US companies behind the arms deal.
They launched a massive boycott of French retail chain Carrefour and luxury brand Louis Vuitton after the Beijing Olympics torch relay was interrupted in Paris in 2008. Since then, Internet users have become a powerful factor holding sway in diplomacy.
In a public letter last month targeting United Technologies, producer of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters supplied to Taiwan, a Chinese netizen named Dai Jianfen called for the boycott of all the firm’s products and deals. United Technologies is reported to be one of the largest foreign investors on the Chinese mainland.
A survey by a major Chinese website showed nearly 96 percent of the voters were supportive of such a boycott.
Business relations between Lockheed Martin and the Chinese mainland are unclear.
Wu Nengyuan, director of the Institute of Taiwan Studies at the Fujian Academy of Social Sciences, said the arms sale is casting a shadow over improving relations across the Taiwan Straits.
“To eradicate the problem, the Chinese mainland and Taiwan should reach a peace agreement,” he said.
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China successfully tests missile interception system from chinesemil.blogspot.com
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China’s HQ-9 medium and long-range air-defense system
China announced its first test of a ground-based mid-range missile interception system Monday within Chinese territory, a move that military experts claim is a breakthrough in the air defense capabilities of the nation’s military.
Details were sparse, but the official Xinhua News Agency said the test achieved the “expected objective” without elaborating further.
The missile is “defensive in nature” and did not “target any country,” Xinhua said.
Yang Chengjun, a senior military strategist of missile studies, told the Global Times that the test ushered China into a new phase in terms of missile interception technologies.
“China needs an improved capability and more means of military defense as the country faces increasing security threats,” Yang said, adding that it is China’s legitimate right to carry out such tests.
“Compared with a previous test of anti-satellite technologies, the missile interception system is more advanced as the targets are moving objects and the satellite was flying within a preplanned orbit,” Yang said.
China said it successfully tested its anti-satellite system in 2007.
The United States and Russia are the only two countries that have missile interception technologies.
Yang said China should display its determination and strength in national defense and the capability to safeguard its core interests on appropriate occasions.
Jin Canrong, a deputy director of the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China, said the development of missile interception technologies is a step further on the country’s course to military modernization.
“China has been pursuing a defense strategy. The missile interception system will not alter such a discipline, but strengthens the national defense strategy,” Jin said.
The report of the Chinese missile test followed the Obama administration’s approval last week to sell PAC-3, an upgraded Patriot air-defense missile system, to Taiwan. The PAC-3 can shoot down Chinese short-range missiles.
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