That’s a nice telescope, but there is more to the spectrum than visible light. When it comes down to that, the U.S. still has China beat. Besides how many telescopes does China have in orbit?

How about the world’s very first UV spectrum nuke powered Moon based telescope? 😎 Launch in T minus 2 months.

from last year http://www.space.com/17645-us-china-moon-lander-astronomy-deal.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_3

Again, says you!

China has the world’s most advanced manned deep sea exploration sub – I QUIVER WITH FEAR!!!

Oh wow Seawolf is so advanced it’s UFO. :rolleyes: Whatever the Americans can make, Chinese can make. Let’s not forget Chinese an an offshoot of the great Akkadian people. Where was Native American civilization when Chinese discovered Pascal’s triangle for binomial coefficients? :applause:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Hui

Back to the topic. Since Pakistan is the biggest Muslim country, and Pakistan is a big user of JF-17, methinks Iran should go for JF-17 at least in the near future. JF-17 is essentially a single engine counterpart of MiG-29, which Iran already uses.

Here we agree completely. The China I know is nothing but a huge manufacturing complex without signs of own invention.. Certainly there are exceptions but in my sector of work, we have found 99% of our products copied (often 1:1) but so far we have not found a single thing that was worth copying back. If you expect that this earns my respect, then you’re wrong.

Not so. Even today, China contributes to discoveries in modern science.

physics http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/aug/06/chinese-particle-collider-turns-up-the-charm

astronomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMOST

biology http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/717947.shtml

mathematics http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/111157-chinese-mathematician-discovers-groundbreaking-proof-on-prime-numbers/

I usually try to avoid generalizations like that but judging by the many Chinese I have encountered/worked with, I certainly was not impressed.

Hard to say. Russians and Americans were on the moon more than 40 years ago.

… and?

True that Archimedes discovered the volume of sphere hundreds of years before Zu Chongzhi did, but the latter had a more elegant solution. Chinese are an offshoot of the great Akkadian civilization, and thus are always late to the game, so to speak. Even though the Americans and the Russians explored the Moon decades before the Chinese did, the Chinese have more advanced technology, introducing for example, a capable X band AESA ground penetrating radar that can explore hundreds of meters below the Moon’s surface, which has never been accomplished till now. :applause:

Why are the masters importing Al-31s right now then, among numerous other foreign engines?

Chinese are rarely inventors. They often have to get a sample first. :rolleyes:

WS-10A is fully certified, which is why J-10B entered serial production this year. Now the Chinese are masters at jet engines. :applause: