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China’s national defense capability not to challenge any country: Chinese military official from china-defense-mashup.com
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June.04 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) — The development of China’s national defense capabilities is not aimed at challenging, threatening or invading any other country, but to maintain its own security, a senior Chinese military official said here on Saturday.
Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army pointed out at the 9th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asian Security Summit that some people still view China’s development with suspicion, worrying that China will seek expansion and hegemony when it becomes strong, as some western countries did.
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“The development of China’s national defense capabilities is not aimed at challenging, threatening or invading any other country, but at, first and foremost, maintaining its own security, ” Ma said.
Ma noted that every country should combine its own interests of its own people with shared interests of people around the world, and its own national security with the common security with the international community.
Only common development can guarantee sustainable development for all, and only common security is truly sustainable security, which has been implemented by China in the practice of foreign strategy, Ma said.
“We believe maintaining security in the Asia-Pacific region serves China’s interest, and it is also China’s responsibility,” Ma said, adding that China has the responsibility to make greater contribution to regional peace and prosperity and it is willing to do so.
The 9th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Asian Security Summit, the Shangri-La Dialogue, is held in Singapore from June 4-6. Delegations from 28 countries and regions, with more than 300 delegates including defense ministers, chiefs of defense staff, and other senior security policy-makers, attended the summit.
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US admiral critiques military ties with China from china-defense-mashup.com
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May.25 (China Military News cited from Reuters) — The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said Tuesday that military ties with China are lagging behind the two countries’ other dealings in maturity and sophistication.
Admiral Robert Willard told People’s Liberation Army deputy chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Ma Xiaotian, that it was regretful that military ties were so far behind the “other very mature engagements that occur between our two countries.”
Willard made the comment during the first high-level military talks between the sides since Beijing suspended military exchanges earlier this year in anger over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island China claims as its own territory.
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Ma voiced his own frustration, saying Chinese plans for military exchanges with the United States in 2010 had been “seriously disrupted” by the Obama administration’s announcement in January. Washington said Jan. 30 that it would go ahead with a sale of $6.4 billion in military hardware to Taiwan — including helicopters, missiles and other weapons.
Willard is in Beijing as part of a second round of strategic talks, termed the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, that began last year in Washington. The gathering brings together dozens of Cabinet officials from both sides, the chiefs of both central banks and military officers.
“It has been a great pleasure to attend the Strategic Economic Dialogue. I’ve been struck by the maturity and sophistication in the level of exchange between the United States in China in a wide variety of areas,” Willard told Ma. “Regretfully, the military to military relationship, we think, lags far behind these other very mature engagements that occur between our two countries.”
Reporters were ushered out of the room shortly after Willard’s comments and the U.S. Embassy in Beijing was not immediately able to confirm what else was discussed.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949. Beijing continues to claim the island as part of its territory and has threatened to invade if Taiwan moves to make its de facto independence permanent.
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China may have F-22 rival by 2018 from china-defense-mashup.com
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May.21 (China Military News cited from Reuters) — China is building an advanced combat jet that may rival within eight years Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-22 Raptor, the premier US fighter, a US intelligence official said.
The date cited for the expected deployment is years ahead of previous Pentagon public forecasts and may be a sign that China’s rapid military build-up is topping many experts’ expectations.
“We’re anticipating China to have a fifth-generation fighter … operational right around 2018,” Wayne Ulman of the National Air and Space Intelligence Centre testified yesterday to a congressionally mandated group that studies national security implications of US-China economic ties.
“Fifth-generation” fighters feature cutting-edge capabilities, including shapes, materials and propulsion systems designed to make them look as small as a swallow on enemy radar screens.
Defence Secretary Robert Gates had said last year that China “is projected to have no fifth-generation aircraft by 2020″ and only a “handful” by 2025.
He made the comments on July 16 to the Economic Club of Chicago while pushing Congress to cap F-22 production at 187 planes in an effort to save billions of dollars in the next decade.
Ulman is China “issues manager” at the centre that is the US military’s prime intelligence producer on foreign air and space forces, weapons and systems. He said China’s military was eyeing options for possible use of force against Taiwan, which Beijing deems a rogue province.
The People’s Liberation Army, as part of its Taiwan planning, also is preparing to counter “expected US intervention in support of Taiwan,” he told the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
He said the PLA’s strategy included weakening US air power by striking air bases, aircraft carrier strike groups and support elements if the US stepped in.
Attacks against US “basing infrastructure” in the western Pacific would be carried out by China’s air force along with an artillery corps’ conventional cruise missile and ballistic missile forces, he said outlining what he described as a likely scenario.
He described China as a “hard target” for intelligence-gathering and said there were a lot of unknowns about its next fighter, a follow-on to nearly 500 4th generation fighters “that can be considered at a technical parity” with older US fighters.
“It’s yet to be seen exactly how (the next generation) will compare one on one with say an F-22,” Ulman told the commission. “But it’ll certainly be in that ballpark.”
Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon’s No 1 supplier by sales, is in the early stages of producing another fifth-generation fighter, the F-35. Developed with eight partner countries in three models with an eye to achieving economies of scale and export sales, it will not fly as fast or as high as the F-22.
Gates has argued that the United States enjoys a lopsided advantage in fighters, warships and other big-ticket military hardware. Some US congressional decisions on arms programs amount to overkill, out of touch with “real-world” threats and today’s economic strains, he said in two speeches on the issue this month.
“For example, should we really be up in arms over a temporary projected shortfall of about 100 Navy and Marine strike fighters relative to the number of carrier wings, when America’s military possesses more than 3,200 tactical combat aircraft of all kinds?” Gates said on May 8.
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“Is it a dire threat that by 2020 the United States will have only 20 times more advanced stealth fighters than China?” he added at the Eisenhower presidential library in Abilene, Kansas.
Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, discounted the gap between the timelines cited by Gates and Ulman. He declined to comment on whether China had made enough progress since last July to change intelligence on the next fighter’s debut.
Richard Fisher, an expert on the Chinese military at the private International Assessment and Strategy Centre, said Gates’ decision to end F-22 production is proving to be “potentially very wrong.”
“We will need more F-22s if we are going to adequately defend our interests,” he said in an interview on Thursday at the hearing.
Bruce Lemkin, a US Air Force deputy undersecretary for ties to foreign air forces, told the commission he had visited Taiwan twice in his official capacity and that the capabilities of Taiwan’s aging F-16s, also built by Lockheed, were not “keeping up.”
Whether to meet Taiwan’s request for advanced F-16 fighters or upgrade the old ones was still under review by the Obama administration, he said before Ulman spoke.
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Wang Presses U.S. on Lifting Export Controls to China from china-defense-mashup.com
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May 24 (China Military News cited from Bloomberg) — China pressed the U.S. to provide a timetable for relaxing restraints on technology exports after Commerce Secretary Gary Locke pledged to scale back the number of products covered by the restrictions.
“China is pleased to note the U.S. initiative to relax U.S. export controls,” Wang Qishan, vice premier of China, said at the start of the Security and Economic Dialogue in Beijing today. “We hope to hear from the U.S. side in detail a timetable and road map on gradually removing barriers on high-tech exports to China.”
Chinese officials, business leaders, students and reporters have questioned U.S. restrictions requiring licenses for the export of civilian technology that could have military applications during Locke’s weeklong trade mission to China.
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Locke said a review of the controls, which would scale back the number of items covered by the measures and impose tighter restrictions on those items, would be completed this summer.
“We look forward to continuing to work with the Chinese government on non-proliferation and with Chinese companies on export control compliance practices that are consistent with international standards,” Kevin Griffis, a Commerce spokesman, said in an e-mail. Still “the impact of U.S. export controls on high-tech trade with China is extremely small.”
Of the $63.4 billion in U.S. Exports to China in 2009, only 0.3 percent required a commerce license, according to Commerce Department data. Less than 2 percent of all such license applications to China were denied, it said.
Wang also pressed the U.S. to grant China so-called market economy status, a designation that could limit the size of anti- dumping duties on Chinese products. That change requires China to meet legal barriers on labor and foreign exchange, Locke said May 19.
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Chinese delegation meets Pakistan top military leadership, discusses defense cooperation from china-defense-mashup.com
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May.23 (China Military News cited from onlinenews.com.pk) — A Chinese delegation headed by General Liang Guangile, Minister of Defence and State Councilor of China, called on Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at General Headquarters on Sunday.
Defense cooperation between the two countries and other matters of mutual interest came under discussion during the meeting.
The Chinese defense minister alongwith Ambassador Lou Zhaohui and other members of delegation also called on General Tariq Majid, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) at Joint Staff Headquarters and exchanged views on regional security situation, bilateral defence relations, measures to enhance military to military cooperation and other matters of mutual interest.
Admiring China’s spectacular economic growth, technological modernization and rapid national development, CJCSC said that China as a vibrant power in global politics and global economy is playing crucial stabilization role in many regions of the world, and especially thanked China for its proactive role in socio economic development and strategic stability of Pakistan.
Terming Pak – China relations as unique, he said that these are solidly anchored on convergence of strategic interests, high degree of mutual trust and are driven by an abiding interest in progress and prosperity of each other as well as promotion of peace and stability in the region. Tariq Majid said that Pakistan – China relations are a classic example of military diplomacy providing solid foundation and continued momentum to strong interstate relations.
The Chinese defense minister lauded the Pakistani people, government and the Armed Forces for their valiant struggle against terrorism and violent extremism. Assuring China’s continued support in diverse fields he reciprocated the desire to bolster bilateral defence collaboration and said that not only the defence ties have been effectively institutionalized, their scope and content have been progressively expanding to include regular defence and security dialogue, mutually beneficially training cooperation, exchange programmes, intelligence sharing, military hardware procurements and defence industrial joint ventures. He also discussed specific measures to give greater depth to this relationship.
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China, Cambodia seek to strengthen military ties from china-defense-mashup.com
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BEIJING, May 11 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) — China and Cambodia pledged to strengthen military ties when senior military officials from the two countries met here Tuesday.
Cambodia is China’ s good neighbor, friend and partner, China’ s Defense Minister Liang Guanglie told Pol Saroeun, commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces.
Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the People’ s Liberation Army (PLA) of China
Liang said recent years have witnessed high-level contacts, a deepening of economic and trade cooperation, productive exchanges in science and technology, and sound growth in military relations between China and Cambodia.
Both countries have also supported each other on major issues concerning their respective core interests, Liang added.
China hopes to make joint efforts with Cambodia to consolidate their traditional friendship, promote reciprocal cooperation, and constantly enrich their comprehensive cooperative partnership, Liang said.
Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the People’ s Liberation Army (PLA) of China, also had talks with Pol Saroeun Tuesday.
Chen said China-Cambodia military relations have smoothly developed with pragmatic and meaningful cooperation in personnel training and the building of military schools and hospitals.
China is ready to work with Cambodia to further boost their military relations, Chen said.
Pol Saroeun said the Cambodian government attaches great importance to its relationship with China and will continue to adhere to the one-China policy.
The Cambodian armed forces would like to work with China to enhance cooperation in various fields, he added.
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North Korea’s Kim seeking lifeline in China from china-defense-mashup.com
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May.04 (China Military News cited from Reuters and written by Jon Herskovitz) — Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il reportedly went to China seeking aid and protection from his only major ally after bungled policies at home and military grandstanding that has exasperated the region.
China has propped up the North’s leaders for decades. Analysts say even though Beijing is increasingly fed up with its provocative neighbor, it is willing to bankroll Kim to prevent chaos on its border.
Kim, aware of Beijing’s predicament, will demand sweeteners to rein in his military and return to international nuclear disarmament talks hosted by Beijing, analysts said.
He crossed into China in the predawn hours in his armored train and went to the thriving port city of Dalian, Yonhap news agency quoted South Korean officials as saying.
In his last trip in 2006, Kim toured China’s industrial centers for a first-hand look under the hood of the country’s quickly growing economy.
Dalian, a rebuilt rust-belt city that has attracted major foreign investment, is a symbol of development that Beijing’s leaders have advocated for years to Kim and his father, state founder Kim Il-sung, to revive the North’s moribund economy.
But Kim has painted himself into a corner.
Economic reforms would open his hermit state and could undermine his “military first” ideology, which justifies economic hardships at home to build a military strong enough to prevent an invasion.
A booking agent at the Furama Hotel in Dalian where Kim was thought to be staying told Reuters it was not accepting reservations for Monday because of “an event.”
A highway into Dalian has been blocked to normal traffic and there was a heavy police guard near a factory zone.
There has been no confirmation of the trip, and reporters, camping out along the line in Dandong that Kim’s special train would have to use to enter China, were hounded out of the area by Chinese security agents just before the suspected crossing.
The visit would be Kim’s first trip abroad since a suspected stroke in 2008. Analysts are also wondering whether Kim’s youngest son Jong-un may be joining him so that he could introduce him as the heir to the family throne in Beijing.
ECONOMIC PRESSURES
Kim’s trip comes at an even more precarious time for the North’s already struggling economy, hit by U.N. sanctions to punish it for a nuclear test a year ago and a botched currency reform late last year that worsened inflation and sparked almost unheard of civil unrest.
South Korea suspects the North of attacking one of its naval ships in late March, killing 46 of its sailors in what could be one of the deadliest strikes between the rivals since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.
Fearful a revenge strike could lead to armed conflict that could damage its rapidly recovering economy, Seoul is looking to punish Pyongyang by cutting into its already meager international finances and sending it deeper into isolation.
This, in turn, could drive Pyongyang even closer to Beijing.
“Beijing has shown great reluctance to forsake pariahs. If anything, it will reinforce the importance of Chinese investment because they will really be the only game in town,” said Peter Beck, a Korean affairs researcher at Stanford University.
In 2009, bilateral trade between China and North Korea, with an estimated GDP of $17 billion, was worth $2.7 billion. As the North’s economy has grown weaker since Kim took over power in 1994, China has supplied more food, oil and goods that serve as a lifeline for his broken state.
Kim’s previous trips to China have led to steps that decreased the security risk the North poses to the region.
Analysts expect a visit to add new life to now dormant international nuclear disarmament talks hosted by Beijing that have been boycotted by Pyongyang for over a year.
The North’s official media has not mentioned the trip and did not announce his 2006 visit until after Kim’s armored train crossed the border and he was safely back in North Korea.
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China promises trucks for Cambodian military after US rap from china-defense-mashup.com
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May.03 (China Military News cited from Asia World News) — China is to donate more than 250 trucks to Cambodia just weeks after the United States withheld a shipment of military vehicles in response to Phnom Penh’s recent expulsion of 20 Uighur refugees, local media reported Monday.
The donation was announced by Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on his return from Shanghai, the Phnom Penh Post newspaper reported.
Hor Namhong said China would donate 257 military trucks and 50,000 military uniforms.
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He said the gesture was made by Beijing of its own accord during a meeting in Shanghai between China’s President Hu Jintao and Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen.
“[Hun Sen] did not ask them, but they know our requirements, and [Hu Jintao] promised to provide further military assistance in the future,” he said.
The US embassy in Phnom Penh declined to comment Monday.
China has growing business and strategic interests in Cambodia, and is Phnom Penh’s most important investor.
In the past four years Cambodia has approved more than 6 billion dollars of Chinese investment. Much of that is in infrastructure, particularly hydropower dams.
The investment figure excludes 880 million dollars in Chinese grant and aid during that period.
It also excludes 1.2 billion dollars in economic assistance awarded by China immediately after Cambodia expelled the 20 Uighur asylum-seekers in December at Beijing’s request.
Both countries denied any link between the two events, though that denial was not widely believed.
The expulsion of the Uighurs drew strong criticism from Washington, which promised penalties for Cambodia’s failure to meet its international obligations. Cancelling the shipment of US trucks was the first of those punishments.
Human rights workers have expressed rising concern at growing ties between private business and the military in Cambodia after Hun Sen encouraged business leaders to “adopt” military units.
Cambodian military regularly guard huge private land concessions across the country, and have been used in the past to evict the rural poor.
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US biggest ‘threat’ to China, says top Chinese military expert from china-defense-mashup.com
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Apr.26 (China Military News cited from IANS) — The US is the greatest “perceived threat” to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and cross-Straits relationship was the most likely subject to provoke a China-US war, a top Chinese military strategist has said.
“The US is the only country capable of threatening China’s national security interests in an all-round way,” Rear Admiral Yang Yi, former head of strategic studies at the PLA’s National Defence University, said last week to a group of visiting senior US officials.
“Japan has no such ability, while Russia has no such motivation and India is more worried about China,” Yang said while addressing delegates at the weeklong US-China Government Executive Global Leadership Course that concluded last Friday.
Yang said Beijing was hoping to maintain and develop a stable and healthy relationship with Washington but it also needed to make necessary preparations for any possible threat.
“Fortunately, the risk of a Sino-US confrontation is decreasing due to the relaxation of the Taiwan question,” China Daily reported Sunday quoting Yang.
He said the Taiwan question would be solved politically rather than militarily, adding the cross-Straits relationship would become even more stable and secure if it continued to develop positively over the next five to 10 years.
Talking about US arms sales to Taiwan, Yang said: “Those weapons will be ours sooner or later.”
The 17-member US group included directors of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Defence Department and Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
This is the first time that Washington has sent senior government officials to Beijing to engage their Chinese counterparts in a comparative educational dialogue.
Sun Zhe, director of Tsinghua University’s Centre for US-China Relations who planned the course two years ago, said Yang had answered the questions in a frank manner.
“A US navy official in charge of intelligence asked the question and he quickly responded that it was the same case for China about the US,” Sun said, adding it is very unique for naval officials from the two sides to exchange thoughts so honestly.
According to Sun, the frank communication was not intended as a threat, but that it would help the two powers to avoid strategically misjudging the other.
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US, India discuss China’s military power from china-defense-mashup.com
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Apr.13 (China Military News cuted from press TV) — India and the US have engaged in talks over China’s upgraded 2.25-million-strong armed forces and its strategic maneuvers in the Asia-Pacific region.
Wary of China’s long-term intentions, India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama shared their own assessments of what has been described as China’s trans-border military capabilities and its growing presence in the Indian Ocean Region.
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China has also forged extensive maritime links with regional countries such as Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar, The Times of India reported Monday.
China’s ambitious aircraft-carrier-building program was of particular interest in the talks, since it is one area in which the country actually lags even behind India, the daily reported, quoting sources.
Currently, China’s fleet comprises of about 62 submarines, with 10 nuclear-powered ones and three armed with long-range ballistic missiles, and 75 major warships.
The two leaders held a one-on-one meeting on the sidelines of this week’s 47-nation Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC.
There has been no official Chinese reaction to such discussions by two of Beijing’s arch rivals in terms of military and economic assertiveness.
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China’s military highlights information security from china-defense-mashup.com
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April.05 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) — China’s Central Military Commission has issued a set of guidelines aimed at developing a comprehensive system upgrading military information security, a statement from the commission said Monday.
Approved by Hu Jintao, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, the Guidelines on Enhancing Military Information Security under New Situations set out an overall arrangement to advance military information security work by “tackling critical issues” facing China’s armed forces.
Improvement of military information security is a requirement for the modernization of China’s national defense and military buildup, said the guidelines.
The document stressed the importance of enhancing organizational bodies, working mechanisms, specialized personnel and technical safety to realize improved information security in the ranks. It gave priority to network security and electromagnetic safety as two major working areas, among others.
Military officers and solders should receive proper education to get prepared for military information security against the new backdrop, said the guidelines.
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US military warns of increasingly active cyberthreat from China from china-defense-mashup.com
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Mar.29 (China Military News cited from computerworld.com and written by Patrick Thibodeau) — On the same day that Google Inc. and the GoDaddy Group Inc. complained about China to a congressional committee, U.S. Navy Admiral Robert Willard appeared before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee with an even stronger warning about cyber-threats posed by China.
Willard’s comments about China received little press attention but were stronger than anything said by either company.
“U.S. military and government networks and computer systems continue to be the target of intrusions that appear to have originated from within the PRC (People’s Republic of China),” said Willard.
He said that most of the intrusions are focused on acquiring data “but the skills being demonstrated would also apply to network attacks.”
Willard testified on the military’s operations in its Pacific command, which he said “faces increasingly active and sophisticated threats to our information and computer infrastructure.”
“These threats challenge our ability to operate freely in the cyber commons, which in turn challenges our ability to conduct operations during peacetime and in times of crisis,” Willard said in prepared remarks (PDF document). He said the military was responding in near real-time to threats.
It’s not just the military saying that the cyber-threats coming from China are on the rise. Appearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China Thursday, Christine Jones, an executive vice president and general counsel at domain registration giant GoDaddy, said that “in the first three months of this year, we have repelled dozens of extremely serious DDoS attacks that appear to have originated in China.”
Although GoDaddy and Google cited China as a source of cyber-attacks, they didn’t blame the government. But these firms are taking action to limit their dealings with China because of other government policies concerning privacy and censorship.
But will the experiences of GoDaddy, Google and for that matter, the U.S. military, prompt other companies to act similarly and take steps to limit their business in China?
Robert Vambery, a professor of international business at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business in New York, said this kind of behavior has been going on for a while and it’s naive not to expect it. While he sees the possibility of action by Google and other firms having some short- to intermediate-term impacts on other businesses in their dealings with China, they won’t be major, he said.
“Unless there is some serious military encounter between China and the United States, then this is not likely to change significantly in the near future,” Vambery said.
University of Notre Dame professor John D’Arcy, who conducts research on information security and computer ethics, says Google decisions puts a little pressure on China, and said if U.S. firms feel any pause at all in dealing with that country, it is because more and more cyber attacks are being linked back to China.
“Companies would be a little bit suspicious because in general the Chinese government has not done anything to curb this activity,” he said.
But China’s importance to U.S. firms is huge, and Dell Inc. is only the most recent company to illustrate why.
There was a brief eye-opening moment this week when it appeared as if the Google’s exodus from China was about to escalate in a big way.
India’s Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, was reported to have said in speech that Dell was planning to shift some production out of China because it wanted safer environment. CEO Michael Dell had recently met with Singh.
The statement came from account distributed by the India Press Information Bureau, according to various press reports. But David Frink, a Dell spokesman said in an interview, that was a “misinterpretation of his remarks.”
Dell has 5,000 employees in China and two manufacturing facilities. In a statement released by Dell, the company said in that in its meeting with Singh, they discussed “ways of building India’s hardware manufacturing eco-system.”
In this context, Mr. Dell said that the company spends about $25 billion annually on sourcing components from its suppliers in China. With the right kind of progress, Mr. Dell said that he believes India also has an “opportunity to become a hardware manufacturing hub, generating employment and adding to that country’s impressive growth.”
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China says still wants military talks with Taiwan from china-defense-mashup.com
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Mar.17 (China Military News cited from reuters and Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Additional reporting by Ralph Jennings in Taipei) — 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 Taiwan tries to declare independence.
Following the election of China-friendly Ma Ying-jeou as Taiwan president in 2008, the two sides have signed a series of landmark trade and tourism deals. But military suspicions on both sides remain deep and there has been no progress on political talks.
Relations have strained of late following a U.S. decision earlier this year to sell a new batch of weapons to Taiwan, though China’s anger has been directed more at Washington than Taipei.
“We agree with looking at the issue of setting up a military and security mutual trust mechanism for both sides at an appropriate time,” Yang Yi, spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, told a regular news briefing.
“This process should progress step by step and in proper order, dealing with the easy first and the hard later.
“For example, it could begin with exchanges between retired military officers and related academics,” Yang said, without elaborating.
China has made similar suggestions in the past, but had not repeated them recently.
The island’s deputy defence minister, Andrew Yang, told Reuters, though, that Taiwan would not pursue military talks any time soon, since it is focussed on a free trade-style deal and building more overall trust with Beijing.
Military talks are unlikely next year as the island ramps up for the 2012 presidential race, he added.
“There’s no policy at the moment, and in the foreseeable future I don’t see a chance to go ahead with that,” Yang said. “It’s not feasible to discuss now. It’s too complex.”
Premier Wen Jiabao offered last year at the annual meeting of parliament to hold political and military talks with democratic Taiwan and sign a peace agreement with the island. Wen did not repeat the offer at this year’s session.
Taiwan says China aims more than 1,000 missiles at it and there has been no sign these are starting to be pulled back, despite a warming of relations.
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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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Feb.03 (China Military News cited from Reuters and written by Adrian Croft) – China and India sharply raised defence spending in 2009 despite the economic crisis but most European NATO members face a squeeze on defence budgets as they rein in gaping deficits, a report said on Wednesday.
The impact of the global financial crisis on defence and security spending varied across regions and countries, the International Institute for Strategic Studies thinktank said in its annual report “The Military Balance”.
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U.S. defence spending almost doubled under former President George W. Bush but President Barack Obama had signalled that the need to tackle a big budget deficit would require “a dramatic reprioritisation within defence spending”, it said.
Obama asked Congress this week to approve a record $708 billion in defense spending for fiscal 2011 — including a 3.4 percent increase in the Pentagon’s base budget — but said he would continue his drive to eliminate wasteful programmes.
A sharp recession had led the Russian government effectively to abandon a comprehensive military re-equipment plan due to run from 2007-15 and to replace it with a new 10-year plan starting in 2011, the report said.
“In contrast to developments in advanced economies, both India and China have maintained their recent trend of double-digit increases in defence spending,” it said.
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India boosted defence spending by 21 percent in 2009 after the 2008 Mumbai attacks killed 166 people, it said.
China’s official 2009 budget included a 15 percent rise in defence spending to 480 billion yuan, equal to $70.3 billion at market exchange rates, the report said.
However, it said the official Chinese defence budget did not reflect the true level of resources devoted to the People’s Liberation Army. It was widely believed that the official budget took no account of weapons bought overseas or research and development funding, it said.
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Other Asian countries, such as Australia, Indonesia and Singapore, had also posted increases in defence spending, it said.
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In Europe, though, many countries had seen their budget deficits rise sharply as they pumped money into the economy to try to end the recession.
“When the time comes to redress these fiscal imbalances, discretionary spending will come under considerable pressure and defence is likely to suffer, particularly in those countries facing a looming demographic shift requiring greater expenditure on pensions and healthcare,” the editor of the Military Balance, James Hackett, wrote in the report.
Britain faced a challenge in reconciling its budget deficit with its large and growing future equipment plan, it said.
Among European members of NATO, only Norway and Denmark were likely to increase their defence budgets in 2010, and over the medium term most other countries would do well to increase defence spending in line with inflation or match existing budget levels, it said.
This would lead to pressure to step up pooling and multinational management of defence assets, to countries specialising in niche capabilities and to the collective procurement of critical defence equipment, it said.
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Jan.14 (China Military News cited from AXcess News and written by Erich Hiner) — Senior military and government officials assured members of Congress Wednesday that China does not pose a significant security threat to the U.S.
In a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, witnesses from the Navy, the State Department and the Defense Department said China’s armed forces are rapidly expanding, but the nation itself is not set to become a direct U.S. military rival.
Although troubled by China’s rapid increase in military-related spending and its positioning of missiles near the island of Taiwan, the witnesses said China’s increases do not necessarily come at the expense of U.S. security.
Wallace C. Gregson, assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, said the two nations can find common ground despite China’s ongoing buildup.
“China is not a strategic adversary,” Gregson said. “It is a partner is some respects and a competitor in others.”
Gregson and other witnesses said China has been cooperative in pressuring Iran and North Korea to abandon their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Despite those positive steps, witnesses said China competes with the U.S. for influence, economic gains and commercial opportunities. As the Chinese military grows, U.S. military and state officials foresee an unavoidable rise in tensions.
Members of the committee were hopeful for future U.S.-China negotiations on security issues, but said China must be willing to play a larger role if tensions are to decrease.
Rep. Howard P. McKeon, R-Calif., the committee’s senior Republican, said U.S.-led negotiations can go only so far.
“While I believe that coming to the table is vital to avoid misunderstanding and miscalculation, we must be mindful that it takes two to make a relationship work and that our priority focus must always be on protecting America’s national security interests,” McKeon said.
China has increased its military spending over the past two decades, boosting its defense budget by double-digit percentage increases every year. The most recent increase, from 2008 to 2009, was 14.9 percent, bringing the official amount of Chinese military spending to roughly $70.6 billion. U.S. military officials suspect the actual sum is many times greater.
China has also modernized its armed forces. According to witness statements, China is developing ballistic missile systems capable of striking U.S. aircraft carriers in the Pacific. The country is also developing a submarine-launched ballistic missile capable of reaching the continental U.S.
The witnesses expressed their most serious concern over China’s refusal to discuss the true extent of its military increases or its intentions. Beijing has not disclosed its plans for a larger, more-advanced People’s Liberation Army.
Adm. Robert F. Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, said China’s stated goal of a defensive military runs contrary to its actual combative capabilities. The PLA is becoming more capable of waging the type of fast, modern warfare needed to fight high-tech armies.
Willard said Beijing’s silence can be addressed with improved communication and cooperation. That would also improve military-to-military relations and help avoid international incidents, Willard said. The PLA and the U.S. military have no established communication channels.
“It is clearly in both nations’ interests, and the Asia-Pacific region’s interest, to manage these complexities and develop a relationship with China that is constructive in every way,” Willard said.
Some representatives were wary of China’s future capabilities, but witnesses said the country’s primary concern remains internal stability.
“I think the Chinese pay a lot of attention to internal security and internal social issues,” said David B. Shear, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. “That is the No. 1 goal for them.”
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