US Navy Needs More Long-Range Strike

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Michael Fabey, Experts: Navy Needs More Long-Range Strike. Aviation Week, Oct 18, 2011.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/g ... Long-Range%20Strike

Note:
(a) For amphibs, see amphibious warfare ship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_warfare_ship
(often shortened to amphibs or phibs; denotes a range of classes of warship employed to land and support ground forces, such as marines, on enemy territory during an amphibious assault)
(b) The article quotes Mr Roughead as saying, "There is great fixation on aircraft carriers, with little discussion on fixed land-based systems, whose GPS coordinates will never change. The GPS coordinates of an aircraft carrier at this minute will be different than it will be an hour from now.”
From the context, it seems to me that he could have referred to either China's or America's--or both.
(c) The article mentions just one expert. (Retired Admiral Roughead is a former offcial.) I do not know what the title uses plural form: experts. Then again, Aviation Week always a different title in print compared with the one online.
(d) The article lists the problem but provides no answer.


--------------------Separately
(1) Jaime Laude and Marichu Villanueva, Navy Ship Scares off Chinese Towing Boat. The Philippine Star, Oct 19, 2011.
http://www.philstar.com/Article. ... ionSubCategoryId=63

Note:
(a) ship prefix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix
(BRP [is Filipino for] Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas; in use since 1 July 1980; meaning "Ship of the Republic of the Philippines")

* Filipino language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipino_language
(Tagalog)
(b) José Rizal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Rizal
(1861-1896; a 5th-generation patrilineal descendant of Domingo Lam-co 柯 儀南, a Chinese immigrant entrepreneur who sailed to the Philippines from Jinjiang, Quanzhou in the mid-17th century; executed by Spain for association with armed Philippine Revolution)
(c)
(i) For Recto bank, see Spratly Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands
("In June 2011, the Philippines renamed the South China Sea and the Reed Bank as the West Philippine Sea and the Recto Bank")
(ii) For the location of Reed Bank, see the second map--in section 3.7 Oil exploration--of
Philippines and the Spratly Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_and_the_Spratly_Islands
(d) mother ship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_ship

(2) 华裔科学家承认窃取商业机密 经济间谍战升温. VOA Chinese, Oct 19, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... nage-132144188.html

Note:
(a) 黄 科学  Kexue HUANG
(b) Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Economic Espionage and Theft of Trade Secrets; First prosecution in Indiana for foreign economic espionage. Office of Public Affairs, US Department of Justice, Oct 18, 2011
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/October/11-crm-1372.html

(3) 达赖喇嘛和数千民众为自焚藏人祈福禁食. VOA Chinese, Oct 19, 2011.
美国务院：严重关切西藏尼姑自焚报道. VOA Chinese, Oct 18, 2011.

(4)
(a) 外甜内惧 莫斯科对华立场受质疑. VOA Chinese, Oct 19, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... case-132135268.html
(b) 普京：俄不同中国竞争世界领袖. VOA Chinese, Oct 18, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... ssia-132043893.html

(5) 台湾国际高球赛将升国旗 中国选手退出. VOA Chinese, Oct 19, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... aise-132128638.html

Note: The report cites
趙新天、葉士弘, LPGA台灣賽 體委會一度龜縮阻升國旗; 中國選手 臨時打包回中國. Liberty Times, Oct 19, 2011.
http://libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/oct/19/today-t1.htm

(6) 台、美、日首度举行三边安全对话. VOA Chinese, Oct 18, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... apan-132044173.html
(国会议员以及台美日安全问题专家)

(7) Brian Spegele, US National Security Adviser Flying into Beijing Amid Rising Tensions. China Real Time, Oct 19, 2011.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... of-taiwan-jet-deal/
Note: Tom Donilon to meet Wang Qishan and Dai Bingguo, "amid growing trade tensions between the world’s largest economies."

(8) Tom Wright, India Raises Its Game in Burma. India Real Time, Oct 19, 2011
(Myanmar President Thein Sein visited India last week with a large delegation of ministers

Note: Sittwe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sittwe
(capital of Rakhine State, Myanmar; section 1 Etymology)

(9) 中国逮捕17名中缅边境私贩枪支嫌犯. BBC Chinese, Oct 19, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... na_burma_arms.shtml
(偷运枪支进入西藏; 没有公布嫌疑人的国籍)

(10) Latest first.
(a) Gleb Stolyarov, Russia Talks Tough in Missile Shield Dispute. Reuters, Oct 19, 2011
http://www.reuters.com/article/2 ... USTRE79I5NI20111019
("A top Russian diplomat[, Moscow's NATO envoy, Dmitry Rogozin] said on Wednesday that talks with the United States on missile defense had hit a 'dead end,' and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded coolly to a gesture designed to allay the Kremlin's concerns about US plans")
(b) Susan Cornwell and Jim Wolf, US Invites Russia to Measure Missile-Defense Test. Reuters, Oct 18, 2011
http://www.reuters.com/article/2 ... USN1E79H18N20111018

Quote:

"Ellen Tauscher, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, told the forum that the United States was prepared to offer Moscow written assurances that the system being built is not directed against Moscow.

"But Tauscher, who held talks in Moscow last week on the issue with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, added: 'We cannot provide legally binding commitments, nor can we agree to limitations on missile defense, which must necessarily keep pace with the evolution of the threat.'