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You know Vietnam seldom gain fully independence against China during its past 2300 years recorded civilization history, and not to be mention being directly ruled by China for at least 1100+ years.

"Though the exact reason behind interceptor missile's failure to take off was yet to be ascertained, preliminary analysis suggested that the target missile might have deviated from its stipulated trajectory, leading to lack of proper coordination, the sources said." ===== Why I am not even surprised...

The last one in the world you can count on is some braggadocio:

Just a few days before this failed test, they bragged their Anti-missile techinques (which is at an amatuerish terminal interoption level) are better than the Chinese ones (which is at an top-notch ground-based middle-course KKV level):

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“Indian defense research organizations are smiling with ease as Pravda announces that Americans are now scared of recent Chinese ABM test. Pakistan wants Chinese missile defense by 2012. But Islamabad does not know what waits its fate.

According to Pravda, China performed a successful launch of an ABM interceptor missile. The test became an important link in the creation of the nation’s missile defense system, news agencies reported January 11. Pravda further says, it was a Chinese act to scare the Americans and the Government of Taiwan.

Interestingly, according to souurces close to Indian military defense reserach institute (it is no longer DRDO at Pune, the secret advanced organization is fully classified), India is ahead of Chinese missile technologies in stealth, target precision management, and algorithmic evasion.

The recent ABM test in China was closely followed by Indian top military space scientists. It actually exposed China’s weakness and vulnerability. It also brought smiles among the Indian scientists and engineers because if this is what Chinese could perform to scare the Americans, then China has really to worry about Indian capabilities. India has two sets of program. One is open and the other is secret. The open specs are far behind the real specs. The open program boasts Prithvi Air Defense anti-ballistic missile interceptor. Last year, India showed the world how Prithvi Air Defense anti-ballistic missile interceptor achieved all the mission objectives. The two-stage interceptor missile fitted with advanced systems hit the target enemy missile at 75 kilometers (47 miles) altitude. But India does not talk about its secret program that far exceeds Prthvi’s capabilities.”

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More details about their most recent brags:

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/21315.asp

You know can understand how reliable and capable an alliance they could be.

2.7% for a YoY inflation rate is nothing for a economy grows at more than 10+%.

For a economy like US who grows very slow, its inflation rate always tend to be 3%+ since 1980.

We know the media are biased, actuall 2.7% for such a fast expanding economy is very health, and it should be the lowest inflation rate among the economies in the world expanding at similar growth rate.

For instance, India, which grow slower than China, get a 10% inflation rate last year, its national debt rate is more than the US and to make it even worse, its budget deficit account for 12% of its GDP, comparing to US’s 9%, not to mention its pathetic unfavorable trade-balance, all indicate a bubble waiting for break.

Yet no one talk anything about it.

Ironically, China, with a non-existing foreign debt (actually negative), a budget deficts accont for less than 3% of its GDP and sit on the world largest reserve, every now and then they feel no hesition to spelling doom about China whenever they can grab even the a slightest piece of negative information from China.

Its almost as ironic as a boy who barely passed a test laugh at a guy who fail to get a perfect score for the same test.

Having been consistently failed to predict anything about China for the past few decades, I guess now we should learn to give China the credits: their economy have been supervisored by some extremely skillful guys, so we should not “worry” about their doom, worry something about ourselves now instead.

Growth rate is 214%, and this year the total auto sales is possibly to be exceed 20 million cars totally according to market analysts.

And your source, don't tell me its also from Liberity time or Epoch time. I tell you something: the first stage of lanuch pop-up were shot through compressed air if you don't know, and this article openly claimed its failure were due to the failure of power-up stage of the rocket engine, so the first stage to get out of the water is succeed. More funny fact is, for such compressed-air powered VLS system, If its first stage failed it wont get out of the tube of the submarine, hence can not sink the submarine, as simple as that. Ironically, if its the second stage (power phase of the engine) failed like the aritcle suggested, the only scenario it can come right down the submarine is that:The engine powered up succesufully but the direct-control system failed, like American failed Trident-SLBM launch: Btw, the most recent Chinese JL-2 test conducted in 2008, which is 1.5 years ago, so how about you admit the Liberty aritcle is a joke. But I guess you just want to believe whatever you want to believe, which means, self-delusion.

Yes, plenty of them

However most of these made-up news are about the taiwan’s own politics, thus you may not understand them unless you know taiwan’s politics reasonable well.

However an example you may know is, during Taiwan’s election, Liberity Times and thier gangs spreading ridiulus rumors like how the then candidate Mr. Ma get a US permant residency card, or how Ma’s wife, during her college days, have stolen some newspapers.

You know, they just like making up pathetic rumors to promote the low morale of the native taiwanese.

They have even gone as pathetic as use photo-shopped pictures in their news during the election.

When they are the primary source of any big news, and they refused to cite any creditable source, then 99% of the chance it is a totally-made-up, note: they are the third-rate “news agency”, never afforded to have alot of connections. Let along has any connection with the US intelligence etc.

This news is laughable if you know a little bit about the VLS system and JL-2 system.

Futhermore, the golf submarine was used to be a launch platform during JL’s early stage development, but the only modified golf for such purpose has retired and scrapped in 2005, this is confirmed by IISS’s world military balance.

So first, even if JL-2 failured, it wont hit the ship due to the design of the VLS system there, secondly, the golf-class launch test platform has already retired 4 years ago, so you can not use a golf to launch JL-2 several months ago, must be a ghost ship which did that J/K.

They said this is from USA/Japan source yet there is not a single USA/Japan source to confirm it

Note JL-2 is not some small tool, its the SLBM targetting USA so the USA news agency covers EVERY SINGLE JL-2 launch tests, failure or not, yet nobody in the US report this wierd failure, only this third rate Epoch-time like “news agency” get this?

Let me tell you something:

The JL-2, just like the majority VLS systems in the world, lunched to a angel that not vertical to the ship, so even if it fail to power up, it wont come right down on the ship, it will travels a parabola, VLS launch system has already designed to avoid such failure, the “news reporter” has zero knowledge about a VLS system like JL-2 to make such amatuerish mistake when he write this science-fiction.

Taiwan’s Liberity Time has as much as a credit of notorious Epoch Times, which means they won’t feel ashamed of making up news.

According to the Liberity Time, it is the US/Japan founded the launch failure, yet the first one to report this failure is this Taiwan news agency, aint it smell fishy?

Just take a huge grain of salt to any of the news come out of the mouths of this news source since it is notorious at making things up.