美国国防大学教授点评中国海军实力

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VOA Chinese, Nov. 5, 2010.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/origination/20101105-CHINA-NAVAL-106796373.html

My comment:
(a) It turns out that Dr. Cole is plugging his book:

Bernard D Cole, The Great Wall at Sea (2nd ed); China's Navy in the Twenty-First Century. United States Naval Institute Press (to be published on Dec. 15, 2010).

See
Author Events - November 2010
http://www.usni.org/news-and-features/author-events
("Friday, November 5, 2010  
Bernard D. Cole THE GREAT WALL AT SEA, Second Edition 9781591141426

Speaking Engagement  The Center for National Policy, One Massachusetts Ave., N.W., #333, Washington, D.C.")
(b) United States Naval Institute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Institute
(based at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is a private, non-profit, professional military association that seeks to offer independent, nonpartisan forums for debate of national defense issues. Established in 1873, it claims 65,000 members, mostly active and retired members of the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.)
(c) Anotehr report on this topic, but at a different location (Heritage Foundation) of the same city the night before (nov. 4, 2010).

William Lowther, China navy focused on Taiwan: forum. Taipei Times, Nov. 6, 2010.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2010/11/06/2003487845
("The [China's military] planners were concerned, he [Cole] said, that it might become difficult to justify a continuing increase in military budgets. And this in turn could lead to 'a harder attitude towards Taiwan'”)


------------------------Separately
(1) Christopher Drew, To Capitalize on Low Bids, Navy Hopes to Name 2 Winners for Ship Contract; Two companies could each receive orders for 10 ships intended for near shore operation. New York Times, Nov. 6, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/business/06ship.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=littoral&st=cse

Note:
(a) trimaran (n; tri- + cataMARAN)

catamaran (n; Tamil kaṭṭumaram, from kaṭṭu to tie + maram tree, wood): "a vessel (as a sailboat) with twin hulls and usually a deck or superstructure connecting the hulls"

Both definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(b) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimaran
(a boat consisting of a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls, attached to the main hull with lateral struts)

(2)
(a) 港专家分析指“日舰高速超船致相撞.” BBC Chinese, Nov. 6, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2010/11/101106_china_japan_boatvideo_reax.shtml
(香港文汇报引述 [香港职训局海事训练学院经理] 杨沛强)
(b) 东京本周六反华示威行动参与者倍增. BBC Chinese, Nov. 6, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2010/11/101106_japan_china_protest.shtml

Note: 田母神 俊雄, 航空幕僚長 (the last position)
TAMOGAMI Toshio, Chief of Staff, Air Self Defense Force

(3) 中国成为IMF第三大投票国. BBC Chinese, Nov. 6, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/business/2010/11/101106_us_imf_china.shtml
("中国的 * * * 投票权也将从目前的3.65%升至6.07%。中国将成为拥有第三大投票权的国家，超越德国、法国和英国，只在美国和日本之后")

My comment: Whether China will acknowledge it or not, the fact is US pushed for it (developing nations having more say); Europe resisted but finally yielded.

(4) Press release: Address by Senator John McCain to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Office of Sen. McCain, Nov. 5, 2010.
http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=1caf150d-ecaa-1de3-5ce8-26b6e7fec609

Quote:

"And there is no reason why we cannot work to facilitate India’s deployment of advanced defense capabilities, such as nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, missile defense architecture, as well as India’s inclusion in the development of the Joint Strike Fighter.

"From undermining the multilateral effort to pressure North Korea and Iran to give up their illicit nuclear weapons programs, to resisting entreaties to revalue its currency, to provocatively contesting territorial disputes with several Asian nations, there appears to be, to quote Prime Minister Singh, a ‘new assertiveness’ on the part of China, and that is very troubling.


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