How many has China lost over the US? Oh yeah I forgot, they don’t even have any aircraft that can make it here :diablo:

(SOC looks like you’ve taken a 2nd job as a secretary with all the typing you’ve been doing.)

China never had to make a U-2 look a like. Since they already proved the concept to be flawed. What’s the point of wasting the lives of pilots?

Oh did we forget that those were Taiwanese lives and hence not on the forethought of the pentagon?
Btw these planes never had to fly from the continental US but rather from Korea and Taiwan.

Another report from Taipei Times about China’s J-10 ?!

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/01/23/2003345957

Typical blabber about the low quality of PLAAF pilots but really is due to an increasing infuriority complex.
note just recently an ROC mirage 2000 pilot provinding escort to president Chen’s airforce one swayed too close to the plane that could have resulted in a mid air crash. If ROC ace pilots can not even manage to provide a safe escort for their own president then it speaks volumes on their quality rather than some nationalistic chest thumping.

if they are talking about the 3rd division regiment, then there are far more than 12 J-10s facing them.

It was a rehashed report from Taipei Times. What do you expect?
Shoddy journalism is a commonality in all their pieces.

The only useful information you can deduce is that 3rd division is transforming to J-10 but nothing more…

Hey, it would be great if Israel gave up their nukes too.

But since they already have nukes, it would be very difficult to force Israel to do this. Prevention is better than cure.

What a whole load of cr*p that is… Try economic sanctions that the west have so eagerly applied to muslim states.
The fact of the matters is the west feel more confortable turning a blind eye when Isreal has nukes. Why do the chest thumping when you can have the Isreali do it for you?

It is apparent that China regard ASAT warfare as being of very significant importance- who remembers last years reports of a high powered laser being used to ‘dazzle’ a US intelligence satellite?:eek:

Why not? The U.S. has had this capability for years. It is really nothing new. But current view of criticizing The Chinese after one launch is just hypocritical. The US government has been perusing a policy of militarizing space for a long time. They have yet to be credible partners to anyone wanting to keep space peaceful. The Chinese tests only prove there may be a future response to such attitude.

I’d be surprised if China didn’t actually challenge the US. US have already inked out on paper that she has no intensions to sacrifice her interests in space for the interests of any other nation. The only choice China faces is to accept that the benevolent space protector US will look out for Chinese interests or take necessary steps to ensure self protection.

A closed ended lease of F-22’s would be of course very appealing to the USAF. Yet, would Australia even consider such arrangement? As it would be basically trading in F-22’s for F-35’s!:confused:

Also, you do bring up an excellent point of Australia being invaded proper! Extremely unlikely…………………sounds like the F-35 is ideally suited for Australia after all?

Why would Australia want a new plane be gap filler? Isn’t it rather counter productive as when the F-22 are combat ready they must then switch to a different airframe with different logistics standards? Buying more F-18s until the planned F35 arrives would make much more sense.

Yeah its fanstasy. ur hong kong is a small village in area. Saintspetersburg is right there where NewYork.

LOL maybe they should have shot MI3 with Tom flying in and between building in St. Petersburg instead of Shanghai?

Come to think of it hollywood is more realistic than you are! LOL

Hong kong is not big in size but wholly developed. Until St. Petersburg’s realestate price rises to roughly the same level of HK, Taipei, Tokyo, NY, Shanghai, it is in no way comparable.

China has recived western and japanese investement via Taiwan, in fact great part of the western investment in China was via Taiwan and Hong Kong, the Myth of Taiwan and south Korea directly investing in China is a half truth, the US and Japan have been investing through that way for many years throught out taiwanese companies to cite an example because the US have been working transfering technology to asian companies and throught them investing in China but they still recieve royalties from the Asian companies and the Chinese2007/01/10/al31/

Complete BS. Truely show how much you know…

Maybe you should check up on how VW, GM, lucent invested in China. It was all direct investment. There really isn’t any need to go to Taiwan to trasfer fund and be at the rejection of Taiwanese legislative yuan.

I’ve seen the developers in China from Taiwan and HK but never have I seen
many from the west simply because mainland economy are more open to ethnic chinese than western firms. Taiwanese firm may benefit from policies that are restricted to the average western based firm. Call it unfair competition or what not but this is the trend.