And successfully operating a 93,000-ton atomic-powered aircraft carrier and its air wing in combat...
Are two entirely different things!
Even if they do it...
the Chicago Way!Gee, I wonder where they stole that technology.
The world is going to be a very interesting place in about 20 years.
A Navy Cross waiting to happen.
Sure it will.
.....to be completed in 2020, according to a Chinese Communist Party's dossier.
A decade and a half to build, a blink of an eye to sink. ......and they'll only have one.
Do your share, free traders! Double that FDI and technology flow.
I don't know much about aircraft carriers, but I doubt
that the ChiCom's carrier will match the Ronald Reagan.
But it will be threat to Taiwan, Japan and the western Pacific.
Make a great coral reef.
I 'am sure that projects "085" and "089" will be 86th in no time at all..(old computer geek humor)
Well,they've got plenty of US money, actually more then we've got,so I suppose they've got to spend it somewhere. Barring some kind of weird future occurance,they're going to be the worlds next super power not us !!!
heh. I can't wait until they start landing practice; especially at night.
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the Chicago Way! And don't give me this "military training only bs". As if that Varyag would sit in the harbor if a war broke out. Please.
China will prove once again what it and Russia have proven before. Commies are effective at copying a current generation war machine but they have no foresight.
The weapons systems they bring on line in 2020 will be 15+ years behind what the U.S. is bringing on line in 2020.
I flew in some Tupolov's in Viet Nam in the 1990's and they were disasters but they were relatively true copies of 707's. However, Boeing didn't plan for the cockroaches crawling across the interior walls (true) nor did they equip the planes with overpowered engines which made the plane vibrate and give the sensation of an overpowered lawn mower. Thankfully, I made it from Hai Phong to Da Nang. I wasn't actually sure we'd make it.
What's everyone worried about. With the new Deomcratic Majority in both Houses, they'll cut our military budget to the bone. That is unless there is a big change in majority come the next election.
If we play are cards correctly, this is a positive thing for us. The Chinese have even more of an interest than we do in keeping the oil moving through the Persian Gulf and the ME. Manufacturing is the reason their economy is booming & they need oil to keep production going. We need their cheap manufactured goods and they need our markets so yes we are dependent on each other. Like it or not, we need to partner with them against the islamonuts and we have a common interest. Say what you want, but good things are happening in China and I like the idea of having 1.5 billion muslim hating Chinese on our side.
thanks to Clinton.
What's everyone worried about. With the new Democratic majority in both Houses, they'll cut our military budget to the bone. That is unless there is a big change in majority come the next election. The left has placed us in a very tenuous position. They previously cut our military budgets so that our military and intelligence gathering suffered. Now they're playing politics to the hilt so nothing can be done in a positive manner in halls of both houses.
From May 2001, FR threadClinton engineered oil crisis last May, post 35, posted by freedomnews.
As Americans Await Blackouts, Export-Import Bank Finances Nuclear Power for PRC U.S. Funding Nuclear Plant in China By Timothy P. Carney The week of May 21, 2001The United States may be facing a national energy crisis—one that will be punctuated by blackouts in California and probably many other states this summer—but across the Pacific Ocean in Shanghai, the Jiangnan Shipyards will be running at full power building warships for the Communist Chinese regime, thanks to funding provided by the U.S. government. The Export-Import Bank of the United States has provided funding to help two U.S. corporations—Westinghouse Electric and Bechtel Power—to help the People’s Republic of China (PRC) build the Qinshan nuclear power plant near Shanghai [snip]
As the law stands, it takes only the President’s signature plus the votes of three out of the five board members of the Export-Import Bank to approve a loan to China. At the time of the Bechtel and Westinghouse-related loans, there were two vacancies on the board, and the three remaining members voted unanimously to send the money to China. The three were Board Chairman Martin A. Kamarck and members Maria Haley and Julie Belaga. Kamarck is the husband of former Gore aide Elaine Kamarck.
On Feb. 14, 1997, a month after she voted to approve the Bechtel-related loan, the New York Times reported that "Ms. Haley’s first job in Washington was in the White House personnel office, where she helped John Huang, the Riady family’s senior American executive, get a job at the Commerce Department." Huang, Human Events readers will recall, helped funnel tens of thousands of dollars in illegal foreign contributions to President Clinton and the Democrats.