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(1) Malcolm Moore, Google Earth Spots Huge, Unidentified Structures in Gobi Desert. Daily Telegraph, Nov 14, 2011.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ ... in-Gobi-desert.html

(2) News release: Northrop Grumman-Built STSS Demonstration Satellites Participate in THAAD Weapon System Multiple Missile Test. Northrop Grumman, Nov 14, 2011
http://www.irconnect.com/noc/pre ... eases.html?d=238105
(Oct 5; at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii, where MDA launched two different missile targets; The THAAD weapon system intercepted both the MRT [medium-range target] and the SRT [short-range target] outside the Earth's atmosphere in a near-simultaneous engagement)

Note:  Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) is land-based, whereas Aegis, sea-based.

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(a) State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner told reporters that Ms Hsien-Hsien Liu, director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City, will be prosecuted becasue diplomatic immunity only applies to "acts performed within the scope of her authorized functions." Department of State has not published today's daily briefing, so it is unclear where and how he made the remarks.
(b) 台湾促美国释放台驻美官员刘姗姗. VOA Chinese, Nov 14, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... shan-133796518.html

(4)
(a) 美众院资深议员：弃台论过于天真. VOA Chinese, Nov 14, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... IWAN-133767098.html

Note: 艾德.罗伊斯  Ed Royce (R-CA)
(b) 美国会议员：应重启签署美台自由贸易协定程序. VOA Chinese, Nov 14, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... iwan-133765808.html

(5) 台独团体在APEC会场外游行抗议. VOA Chinese, Nov 14, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... test-133765413.html

(6) James Lamont, India and Russia Form Groundbreaking Partnership but US Rival Tries to Muscle in; Stealth fighters; Fighter pilots who train alongside their peers in the Indian Air Force (IAF) are left in little doubt of their tactical pedigree. Financial Times, Nov 14, 2011.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c23778 ... 6-00144feabdc0.html

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"So far, prototypes of the T50 have completed 100 test flights. The aircraft has a range of 2,000km and a cruising speed of Mach 1.8. It will cost less than $100m – far cheaper than US rivals such as the F-22 Raptor and the F-35, according to its Russian makers Sukhoi and United Aircraft Corporation.

"But the US may still fight back on the current tender to supply fourth-generation fighters to India. The Pentagon recently told the US Congress that it was prepared to provide information to India about the F-35 Lightning II, produced by Lockheed Martin and viewed as a heavy, cheaper version of the F-22. * * * [Meanwhile] 'Lockheed Martin has signalled in multiple ways it would supply the fighter [to India?] at a fly-away cost of $65m per aircraft with deliveries beginning by 2015,' he [Ajay Shukla, the defence correspondent for India’s Business Standard newspaper] says.