I just don’t see the “leap”, as other posters stated, most UAVs are basically RC-aircraft with a camera on it.

The article was written by a Westerner, as are all other articles, and no one here has told the tale of China having super-duper invisible UAVs. So who are these wet-dream fanboys you speak ill of? Yeah China has their enthusiatics fanboys but at least they’re age appropriate unlike the opposition, who indistinguisably think alike ranging from children to those already making their own funeral arrangements, believing they have flawless perfect technology and 100% professional honorable personnel that would never do any wrong like lie.

So what’s this all about? The typical sino-hype we see here every other day. When an aircraft flies somewhere in China it is assumed to be some kind of stealthy superdesign, helped by the Photoshop-afin fanboy community with Internet access.

And what UAV pictures have been photoshopped? So far I see a lot concept models. Unless you’re angling that China is so inferior at model building that those are the ones photoshopped. Really this is about insecure little girls peeing in their pants trying to scare their governments into giving more money to their militaries. Well at least this actually regarded something that could be seen as threat unlike lying about painted rocks so they scream that invasion was near.

‘China bashing’ in the Indian media

By Amit Baruah
Editor, BBC Hindi

It’s the silly season in India-China relations. If you’ve tuned into one of the more hawkish Indian television channels or are reading the views of the many experts on India and China, it might seem like the two countries are at each other’s throats.

There has been a spate of denials from the Indian foreign ministry, the border guards and even the Indian air force. All insist that there have been no clashes and no violations of Indian air space.

“A media report about two ITBP [Indo-Tibetan Border Police] jawans [soldiers] having been injured due to firing from across the Line of Actual Control has come to notice. It is factually incorrect,” the Indian foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

And here is what the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman had to say about the same incident: “I have not heard of the scenario you mentioned… I have noticed, however, that Indian media has been releasing some groundless information recently. I wonder what their intention is.”

‘Without pause’

But China’s concerns about accuracy do not seem to bother a large chunk of the Indian media, which is engaged in a rather serious bout of “China-bashing” these days.

Such China “stories” continue without pause.

Facts do not seem to matter as some Indian media organisations believe that this is the best way to grab a larger market share.

“Nothing has changed on the ground between the two countries,” a senior Indian official, who preferred anonymity, told the BBC.

“I just can’t understand the reasons for this hysteria,” the official said.

China is India’s largest trading partner, with two-way trade volumes crossing $50bn in 2008.

The two countries have been trying to negotiate a solution to their decades-old boundary dispute, a process which shows few signs of reaching fruition anytime soon.

There hasn’t been a single fatality in skirmishes along the undefined India-China boundary since 1967, but the memories of the crushing defeat inflicted by the Chinese on India in the 1962 war have not faded from the minds of some Indians.

In a sense, the ghost of 1962 also has not been exorcised from the memories of a certain narrow, but influential, category of retired generals and diplomats, who still harbour ambitions of “giving it back to the Chinese”.

Media war

In the last two decades – ever since a path-breaking visit by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to Beijing in 1988 – there has been a visible effort on the part of the two governments to try to narrow their differences.

A code was agreed on how patrol parties were to act in case they encountered each other.

These encounters do take place and the two sides have a specified drill in such cases, which appears to have worked well over the years.

But now, the threat to a stable India-China relationship is coming not from the governments, but from sections within the media.

If the largely private Indian media is belligerent about China, a response is beginning to emerge from the Chinese side as well.

“India likes to brag about its sustainable development, but worries that it is being left behind by China. China is seen in India as both a potential threat and a competitor to surpass,” the state-run Global Times wrote in June this year.

In essence, a media war, initiated by a few Indian television channels and newspapers, has now been joined from the Chinese side as the Global Times opinion piece indicates.

Briefing editors of national dailies, a senior Indian official suggested that there was no point in the press showing any “hysteria”.

Not many journalists, it would appear, want to listen to such suggestions.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8258715.stm

Old plot failed and exposed. Time to raise the ante. I guess next we’ll hear is a US soldier was shot on Guam by a passing Chinese ship.

Eh? :confused:

Paul

What? You don’t get environment is the new religion and god and the liberal who criticizes religion is doing the same thing bringing questions like these. Who has the answers? They do. Who has to live life the way they say in order to correct it? You do.

The irony is to ask such a question itself suggests there’s an importance in humans. What has any other species done for the world? So to think that humans have to have contributed to the world while every other species gets a pass must mean humans are special. Simply enough humans are no different from animals. Humans eat and procreate just like any other animal. And just like any other animal that over populates and eats all the food they die off until there’s a balance again. If there were no humans, would the animal world live in peace? Animals can be and are cruel to one another. So why ask such a question in the first place?

The bigger irony is that this is one of many questions liberals ponder. What’s the purpose? Guess who holds all the answers for everyone to live by and follow or else something dire will happen? Sound familiar? In the end activist liberals are no different from right-wing religious types.

You mean just like how there are threads about every aspect, political and technical, about the F-22, F-35, Typhoon, Gripen, etc.? If a F-22’s stealth RAM coating gets a scratch, someone starts a thread about that.

Those comments sound like some of the people in this forum. I wonder how long it will take for the mainstream media to report this. They’ve done it before.