Posted on 09/28/2005 6:13:38 PM PDT by Flavius
Quid pro Quo China. You back us at the UN on Iraq, we will think about it.
Opps meant to say on IRAN.
anyone ever hear WHAT diesel boats we're supposed to crap? We haven't had a diesel boat in, gad, years (way before I was a gleam in my pappy's eye!)
Its pretty funny. China is building its 1960's army with broken russian scrap, and paying top dollar for it.
Taiwan gets 2 boats and the chicoms have to build more scrap metal...
Gots to love high tech...
I believe we're planning to have them built just for this purpose.
Hey, whatever works. Taiwanese ADRs go down everytime China buys another junker. Maybe this sale will keep the timid from worrying so much
"To assure that a free country stays that way."
Well said.
The PRC has painted itself into a corner on this issue and could probably merge with Taiwan in 20 or 30 years and no one would know the difference.
Yeah, I recall reading that too. My question is, how far has that gone? I think it was a Dutch firm, FWIW.
>The Nationalists support eventual unification with mainland
>China ...
We have some of those here also!
China has the same personality defect that Jung-Il has.
If the sh*t must hit the fan between China and the USA, it's in our favor that it happen sooner rather than later.
The newer diesel boats are much quieter than the nukes and are more difficult to detect. Since they would be used only to patrol the Taiwan Strait and aren't for long patrols, they are just what are needed.
Agree. I was just wondering where these phantom boats were coming from; unless the Dutch (or whomever) got their panties out of a wad and started actually building them.
good excuse to get back into the game... diesel pigboats are
*really* quiet and are great if they don't have to roam too far...
Unfortunately, the Chinese know this too.
There were a lot of Chinese Generals kicking themselves in the rear the last couple of weeks(Katrina-Rita) because they were not in a position/ready to take Taiwan.
True enough ;) Anything to scary the willies outta the CHICOMS is alright in my book.
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