That is a common misconception:

There is more salt in the butter and bread of a slice of toast than the marmite you spread on it, wisdom courtesy of the marmite website.

What is marmite :confused: :confused: ….seccond cousin to marmelade?? 😎 :confused:

Check the link I put in post 13, it should give you some insight!

I wonder what the Chinese Navy will be planning to do with a Carrier and wing of Rafales/Su-33s if they get them?

Surely the modern carrier is for power projection, but where do China’s strategic interests lay?

For a start, Taiwan and Japan are going to feel more threatened, so a buildup in these nations is possible, especially now that the new Japanese PM is more right wing than the last. But where else would the Chinese send a carrier, to the middle east? What for?

Any power projection by china is bound to step on the toes of someone else, so I would probably be inclined to say they currently just want to gain some carrier experience so that in the future they will be able to build a vast bluewater fleet like the USN. But still, the idea of a massively powerful China trying to spread its influence worries me deeply. Cue arms race with India and Japan?

You mean like in Iraq when when little girls are stalked and then followed to their homes and raped and murdered along with their families to eliminate witnesses.

What does this have to do with the thread?

And in any case, I think that you will find that the maority of the violence in Iraq is caused by Iraqi factions ( Suni, Shia or Kurd) killing each other, and that coalition troops are trying to stop the insurgency. If you are going to make claims like this, back it up with some evidence. Here is mine:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/145806.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1411247.stm
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/hr_facts.html