标题: Taiwan May Prove Undefendable [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 6-12-2011 09:06 标题: Taiwan May Prove Undefendable 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Oliver Lee, Guest Editorial: Taiwan May Prove Undefendable; China's growing military power will challenge U.S. fleet. Honolulu Star-Advertiser, June 11, 2011
http://www.staradvertiser.com/editorials/guesteditorials/20110611__Taiwan_may_prove_undefendable.html
(refuting Sen Daniel Inouye's remark that "war is nearly unavoidable" with China)
Note: Senator Inouye (D-Hawaii) is not a member of arms service committee of US senate.
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(1)
(a) 美众议院外交委员会主席：应加强与台湾关系. VOA Chinese, June 12, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110612-Why-Taiwan-Matter-123706759.html
(b) William Lowther, US lawmaker warns China on Taiwan; Tilting at Windmills: The head of the Formosa Foundation described Ros-Lehtinen’s speech as the most pro-Taiwan given by any major Washington politician in a decade. Taipei Times, June 13 (available now).
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2011/06/13/2003505643
(2) 盖茨: 美国担负北约开支大头日子结束. VOA Chinese, June 11, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110610-gates-nato-123661399.html
(3) 以色列国防部长巴拉克出访中国. BBC Chinese, June 11, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2011/06/110611_israel_china_barak.shtml
Note:
(a) '费尔康'预警飞机 (actually not an airplane but a system):
Phalcon airborne early warning (AEW) system, developed by the ELTA division of Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd (IAI; Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd since 2006)
(b) 哈比'无人机 IAI Harpy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Harpy
(Sold to China in 1994 for around $US 55 million, the UAVs were returned to Israel in 2004 under contract to be upgraded. The United States demanded that Israel seize the UAVs and nullify the contract. * * * In 2005, the UAVs were returned to China without being upgraded)
* harpy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpy
(c) Ariel Sharon (1928-2006; prime minister 2001-2006; died of complications from a stroke)