My comment:
(a) I am totally clueless as to why certain Chinese in Mitbbs.com are so
afraid of Voice of America Chinese edition--when I cite it, a few become
very vocal and seek to penalize me one way or another. VOA Chinese replied
half a year ago to a Chinese within China, that for years it had not heard
of anyone inside China who was punished simply because he listened to VOA
radio. (Sure, China has jammed the radio and blocked the VOA web site. But
that is something else.)
There are so many channels to obtain information outside China, dude. Even
if somehow I cannot cite VOA, there are other media outlets which make
similar reports sooner or later.
(b) In my opinion:
(i) VOA has a knack of finding something related to Taiwan, Hong Kong or
China and report the swiftly.
(ii) Its report about China are limited, because its reporters are few there
, not allowed to report freely, and closely watched all the time.
(iii) But its reports about Taiwan are better than media outlets of Taiwan,
which I despise.
(c) Take the above report for example, it is almost entirely based on News
reports from Russia. I am certain VOA Russian bureaus can read Russian. Even
if they can not, they can read English. And the English version of relevent
report is as follows.
What the Russian papers say. RIA Novosti, JAn. 11, 2010.
http://en.rian.ru/papers/20100111/157512942.html
(translation of
China buys Russian engines for its fighter plane. Vedomosti, Jan. 11, 2010)
----------------Separately
(1) Christopher Bodeen, China says missile defense system test successful.
Associated Press, Jan. 11, 2010.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_CHINA_MISSILE_DEFENSE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-01-11-19-27-10
("'We did not receive prior notification of the launch,' Maj. Maureen
Schumann, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said. 'We detected two geographically
separated missile launch events with an exo-atmospheric collision also being
observed by space-based sensors.'")
(2) Charles Levinson, Israeli Robots Remake Battlefield; Natin Forges Ahead
in Deploying Unmanned Military Vehicles by Air, Sea and Land. Wall Street
Journal, Jan. 12, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126325146524725387.html
My comment: Ther eis no need to read except the paragraphs introducing
(a) Guardium: "essentially an armored off-road golf cart with a suite of
optical sensors and surveillance gear,"
and (b) "Protector SV, an unmanned, heavily armed speedboat."
SV stands for "surface vehicle."
A 9-minute clip from Discovery channel "10 months ago":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URyAhMdkWA4