This
Chinese aircraft carrier looks formidable. It is an ultra modern
design. There are reports this first Chinese aircraft carrier is
under construction and could enter service around 2015 or earlier.
It won't be long before we actually see the real thing. U.S. defense
analysts are waiting and watching anxiously.
The design of this carrier is a quantum leap beyond anything the
U.S. has on the drawing board as far as we know. The Chinese have
thought outside the box ... better speed, larger capacity, more
stable, etc. (It could be twice as fast as anything the U.S. has,
and the catamaran type hull will greatly reduce drag, pitching,
yawing and swaying, which is common in current aircraft carriers.)
It's definitely a 'blue-water' long range vessel. Plus it can service
their nuclear fleet in between the twin hulls unseen or even secretly
launch amphibious ops. It could be launched in half the time it
takes the U.S. at one-third the cost. Together with the Chinese
stealth fighter bomber (the naval version is already flight testing),
the Chinese have a formidable weapons system.
Check out the extra 'parking and readiness' station between both
hull structures and the launching and landing capabilities due to
the utilization of twin flight decks, all at the same time. -- (Note:
Photos are of an artist's depictions.)
Interesting Factoids
The Chinese are
drilling for oil off Cuba, Brazil and Venezuela;
The Chinese have
completed the world's biggest dam;
The Chinese built
the world's longest over-the-water bridge (65 times as much steel
as in the Eiffel Tower;
The Chinese built
a 15,000 feet high railroad through the Himalayas into Tibet;
The Chinese are
the only nation other than Russia now, that can launch man into
outer space (the U.S. has ended its program);
The Chinese have
shot down a surveillance satellite (their own) from the ground.
BUT
WAIT
There are other views.
Here are some of them.
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This
book maintains, among other things, that China will not become a
major threat to U.S. power soon, even though they are growing very
rapidly. There are too many fault lines within Chinese culture,
which will easily crack open when the government weakens its grip.
This is currently manifest in their tight control of information
on the Internet, which is intended to limit dissension by preventing
access to liberal ideas of self-determination. --
Technology Theft
China has mounted a full-court press to steal from us (USA govt and business) whatever intellectual property it can, picking our pockets of know-how and technology...The scope and intensity of economic espionage has assumed startling proportions...Corporate America lives in a glass house electronically, and is suffering massive theft of Western intellectual property...The brutal reality is, stealing information electronically is cheap, easy and low risk.
Joel Brenner, America the Vulnerable
--
Factoid
Personal
computers and Internet technology have empowered man.
Having emerged from the age of 'I believe' into the age of
'I know',
mankind has advanced into an age of transparency and full disclosure.
Mankind's institutions are undergoing serious transformations. Big
is no
longer better, and local with more humanized services has become the
rule.
See Here Comes China.
Now
you know!
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