Chinese President Urges Navy to Prepare for War

[Bruce_T_Laney]

No problem people....just keep right on buying Chinese products from Wal-Mart.
It is the other guys fault - not you.

That is why I shop at Target and check the damn tag before buying!

 

[frigidweirdo]

Uncle Ferd says it looks like it's big enough to carry dat 200 million man army...

Taiwan says Chinese aircraft carrier passes south of island
Sun Dec 25, 2016 | A group of Chinese warships led by the country's sole aircraft carrier has passed through waters south of Taiwan and is heading southwest, Taiwan's defense ministry said on Monday of what China has termed a routine exercise.

The ministry said the aircraft carrier the Liaoning, accompanied by five other vessels, had passed 90 nautical miles south of Taiwan's southernmost point on Monday morning via the Bashi Channel, between Taiwan and the Philippines. "Staying vigilant and flexible has always been the normal method of maintaining airspace security," said ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi, declining to say whether Taiwanese fighter jets were scrambled or if submarines had been deployed. Chen said the ministry was continuing to "monitor and grasp the situation". The exercise comes amid renewed tension over self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's telephone call with the island's president that upset Beijing.

Senior Taiwan opposition Nationalist lawmaker Johnny Chiang said the Liaoning exercise was China's signal to the United States that it has broken through the "first island chain", an area that includes Japan's Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan. In Beijing, influential state-run tabloid the Global Times said the exercise showed how the carrier was improving its combat capabilities and that it should now sail even further afield. "The Chinese fleet will cruise to the Eastern Pacific sooner or later. When China's aircraft carrier fleet appears in offshore areas of the U.S. one day, it will trigger intense thinking about maritime rules," the newspaper said in an editorial.

China has been angered recently by U.S. naval patrols near islands that China claims in the South China Sea. This month, a Chinese navy ship seized a U.S. underwater drone in the South China Sea. China later returned it. Japan said late on Sunday it had spotted six Chinese naval vessels including the Liaoning traveling through the passage between Miyako and Okinawa and into the Pacific. Japan's top government spokesman said on Monday the voyage showed China's expanding military capability and Japan was closely monitoring it.

China's Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier Liaoning sails the water in East China Sea

China's air force conducted long-range drills this month above the East and South China Seas that rattled Japan and Taiwan. China said those exercises were also routine. China's Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier has taken part in previous exercises, including some in the South China Sea, but China is years away from perfecting carrier operations similar to those the United States has practiced for decades. Last December, the defense ministry confirmed China was building a second aircraft carrier but its launch date is unclear. The aircraft carrier program is a state secret. Beijing could build multiple aircraft carriers over the next 15 years, the Pentagon said in a report last year.

Taiwan says Chinese aircraft carrier passes south of island

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More Chinese Missiles Bound for Disputed Islands
Dec 23, 2016 | China has sent more surface-to-air missiles from the mainland to the South China Sea.

China has sent more surface-to-air missiles from the mainland to the South China Sea, and the U.S. intelligence community anticipates these new missiles will eventually go to some of China's disputed territories for the first time, two U.S. officials tell Fox News. The new missiles have been seen by American intelligence satellites on China's provincial island province of Hainan. While Hainan is not part the disputed islands, officials say this location is "only temporary" and anticipate the missiles will be deployed soon to the contested Spratly Islands or Woody Island.

The two missile systems seen on Hainan island are known as the CSA-6b and HQ-9. The CSA-6b is a combined close in missile system with a range of 10 miles also contains anti-aircraft guns. The longer range HQ-9 system has a range of 125 miles. This latest deployment of Chinese military equipment comes days after the Chinese returned an unclassified underwater research drone in the South China Sea. The Pentagon accused a Chinese Navy ship of stealing the drone, over the objections of the American crew operating it in international waters to collect oceanographic data.

Alleged on-going reclamation is conducted by China on Mischief Reef in the Spratly group of islands in the disputed South China Sea

The escalation comes weeks after President elect-Donald Trump received a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan's president breaking decades long "one-China" protocol and angering Beijing. China has deployed surface-to-air missiles to Woody Island in the South China Sea before, as Fox News first reported in February. It has yet to deploy missiles to its seven man-made islands in the Spratly chain of islands. Weeks ago civilian satellite imagery obtained by a Washington, DC based think-tank showed gun emplacement on all the disputed islands, but not missiles.

Earlier this month, Fox News first reported China getting ready to deploy another missile defense system from a port in southeast China. China also flew a long-range bomber around the South China Sea for the first time since March 2015 and days after Mr. Trump's phone call with his Taiwan counterpart. Days before President Trump's call, a pair of long-range H-6K bombers flew around the island of Taiwan for the first time.

More Chinese Missiles Bound for Disputed Islands | Military.com

China is increasing military spending and power. Right now they're learning how to use aircraft carriers, give them 10 years and they'll have 5 of the things and will be proficient in their use.

No, not really,Naval experience cannot be learned any other way except through trial and error, it takes a century of naval experience just to become proficient, China's greatest advantage will be the vast number of lives they have at their disposal for disposal in leaning how to militarily navigate the high seas, and that's just to stay afloat.

Perhaps. But then when you have a massive navy, it makes up for that lack of experience.

The other issues is that the US has released so much information about its navy and practices, the Chinese are quite good at that sort of thing. But they don't need war, they just need projection of power, and they'll get that.

 

[Silhouette]

They're trying to provoke our new infant-leader into economic doom. That's what this whole thing is about. They've ditched proxies and are now rattling the sword themselves. They heard him talk about CHIN-NAH in the campaign and then his prompt and idiotic insult to them by talking to the president of Taiwan. So they figure he's a shoo-in for the Chinese to provoke. Whatever works.

That allegiance is infinitely flexible towards their ultimate goal.