Red China's first aircraft carrier unveiled

AFPC China Reform Monitor ^ | 4/25/2011 | Joshua Eisenman, ed.

[bruinbirdman]

"That's the Military Education Center at the Orient Green Boat After-School Camp for Youngsters. "

It is, indeed, made out of concrete.

ChiComs cannot even manufacture the CPUs necessary for advanced military electronics.

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[reentry]

The Chinese have there their work cut out for them, and sailing around on a modified Russian carrier is not the achievement of the century. But they have made it a national priority to master all of the relevant technology, and they will. The purpose of this is to learn how to operate a carrier on the blue water. I think they are thinking way beyond Taiwan, the plan is to challenge the US Navy for control of the Pacific, and I think they will do so in the next decade or so.

I am not a huge fan of the Chinese Communist government, and I don’t subscribe to the unbeatable boogeyman d’jour hype. That being said, I think it would be a big mistake to assume that they will always be where they are now militarily. For those of you who think advanced CPU’s will be their bottleneck, they already are manufacturing world class chips for foreign companies, and one day they will design one of their own if they haven’t already.

Like I said, we need to get our act together pronto.