] Even if he had backup electric power, he doesn’t have backup hydraulics to move the control surfaces.

For comparison, on 11 September 2008, the JASDF lost a F-15J for a similar reason: electrical system trouble.
Its left electricity generator failed, its right generator couldn’t compensate, and the back-up also failed.
This caused the instruments to warn its driver that the engines were “overheating”. He shut down and restarted the actually flawless engines, but couldn’t “lower the engine temperatures”.
He bailed out at low altitude, and landed on the sea.

12 December 2008:
KC-767. #602.
JASDF, based at Komaki AB, Aichi Prefecture.
16:00, emergency landed at Gifu AB, Gifu Prefecture.

11:30, took off from Komaki AB.
Above Japan Sea, extended refuelling boom to refuel F-15.
12:56, could not retract or store refuelling boom.
During landing, boom contacted runway and sparked, but did not catch fire. Aircraft not damaged.
Nine crew not wounded.

Photos:
http://www.asahi.com/national/update/1212/NGY200812120009.html
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/disaster/081212/dst0812121940005-n1.htm

http://www.jiji.com/jc/c?g=soc_30&k=2008121200850
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/knews/t10015979611000.html

13 October 2008:
On 9 December 2008, the ROC MND confirmed: on 13 October 2008, 12:45, during simulated air-to-air gunnery training, ROCAF Mirage 2000-5 2016 pressed its trigger, and its two cannons actually fired six shots per cannon at the friendly 2015 that it was tracking.
The friendly saw the shots, and immediately evaded.

2016 was #2 of flight of four or six (?) Mirage 2000-5s, based at Hsin Chu AB, during training in an area northwest of Hsin Chu.

ROCAF command claimed the shooting pilot misplaced the master switch to “fire”. He was reprimanded, grounded for three months, and transferred on 1 December, for cool-down.

One article mentions in Min Guo ’50s = 1960s, a F-5 based at Tai Nan AB, also misfired its cannons, and shot down a friendly.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081209/60/1avgu.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081209/58/1avny.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081209/17/1auxt.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081209/17/1aus7.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081209/5/1auvc.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081209/1/1avbh.html

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081209-00000093-san-ent.view-000
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081209-00000093-san-ent

9 December 2008:
First Lieutenant Takagi Misa (28), JASDF. CH-47J pilot, based at Iruma AB, Dasaitama Prefecture.

JASDF has 10 female pilots, for ASW aircraft and transport helicopters.
2,200 of 45,000 JASDF personnel are women.

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2008/q4/081201a_nr.html

“Boeing Airborne Laser Team Fires High-Energy Laser Through Beam Control System”

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Dec. 01, 2008

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/ABL120208.xml&headline=Boeing%20Building%20Case%20For%20Multimission%20ABL&channel=defense

“Boeing Building Case For Multimission ABL”

Dec 2, 2008
By Graham Warwick

Other missions for the megawatt-class high-energy laser could include shooting down aircraft, surface-to-air missiles and cruise missiles, Boeing ABL Program Director Mike Rinn said during a teleconference Dec. 1. He emphasized multimission capability is “not part of the mainline design,” which is “optimized for boost-phase ballistic missile

http://www.asagumo-news.com/news/200811/081113/08111311.html

22 October 2008:
MU-2. #28.
JASDF.
Last flight from Hamamatsu AB to Nyuutabaru AB.
Retire ceremonies at both air bases.
Last flight pilot was Hamamatsu Kyuunantai commander Lieutenant Colonel Takao Yoshihiro.
#28 will display at Nyuutabaru AB.

http://www.boueinews.com/news/2008/20081115_5.html

15 October 2008:
S-61A. 8185.
Since March 2008, 21st Koukuutai, JMSDF, based at Tateyama JMSDF AB. Since August 2007, 101st Koukuutai, JMSDF, based at Tateyama JMSDF AB.
Last flight and retire ceremony of last S-61A of JMSDF.
5,500 flight hours for 18 years.
Last flight pilot was Lieutenant Commander Tahara Takanori.
8185 will display at Tateyama JMSDF AB.

] P.s. I am sorry about my confusion

No problemo, dude.
Now we know China (reportedly) built a naval base on Hai Nan Island, and will build a civilian rocket base and nuclear power plant there.

] It is obvious that like the North Vietnamese, during the Vietnam War,

IMO, China’s support for North Vietnam in the Vietnam War, and for North Korea in the Korean War, are lost causes.

Just a few years after the Vietnam War ended, China invaded northern Vietnam then withdrew, in a low-intensity conflict in 1979 (similar to the contemporary Israel’s Operation Litani into Lebanon in 1979), after Chairman Deng visited USA in 1978.
Although the Chinese air force convinced the Vietnamese air force that neither side would support its grunts with air power, the Vietnamese were better equipped with Soviet AFVs (the ZSU-23-4s were just as lethal against infantry hiding in forests and huts), and better trained with decades of fighting the French and the Yanks.

Besides, all the “market economy with Chinese or Vietnamese socialist characteristics” are all *MUNCH*.
China and USA began to normalise relations in early 1970s. Even Vietnam and USA began to normalise relations in 1990s.
Now in 2008, extremely few Chinese, if any, commemorate the Belgrade victims (1999) or Wang Wei (2001).

Elsewhere, 50 years after the Korean War, North Korea is still extorting food and fuel from China, and spoiling the neighbourhood with its nuclear programme.
Amongst the Chinese “volunteers” who “martyred” in North Korea, was Chairman Mao’s best son, Mao An Ying.
http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/?qid=7006060903338
Maybe just because China doesn’t want the Koreas to re-unite the way that the Germanies re-united.

] the Chinese ability to study world history and its lesson (both good and bad!).

Chinese written history and unwritten legends concentrate on the countless kingdoms and (after the rank of “Emperor” was invented) dynasties in the Zhong Yuan or “Central Plain” region of China. It has few records of the kingdoms that co-existed and surrounded China for centuries, such as Liao (northeast), Tu Lu Fan (northwest), Xi Xia (west), and Da Li (southwest, in modern Yun Nan Province); maybe except when some Chinese kingdoms conquered and assimilated some of these border kingdoms.

Worst, some of the dynasties were nomads from the north (even the Jin, Yuan, and Qing in the past 1,000 years), and weren’t “Central Plain” Chinese. The Cantonese dialect used in Guang Dong Province and Hong Kong is the proper ancient Chinese language and writing (traditional font), not the modern Pu Tong Hua (simplified font or not), because when the five Hu nomads occupied China, the Han population fled south to Guang Dong, Guang Xi, and beyond.

Even now, archeologists are digging up and studying gold staffs, masks, and figurines of the ancient Shu kingdom in Si Chuan Province.