Super Base on Guam

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Praveen Swami, US to build £8bn super base on Pacific island of Guam. Telegraph, Oct. 26, 2010.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/guam/8085749/US-to-build-8bn-super-base-on-Pacific-island-of-Guam.html
("Local residents' concerns, however, have been sidelined by the US-China strategic competition")


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(1) Jeremy Pelofsky, Fake chips from China sold to U.S. defense contractors. Reuters, Oct. 26, 2010.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69P3GH20101026
(Shannon Wren and his associate Shannon McCloskey in Clearwater, Florida)

Note: Clearwater, Florida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearwater,_Florida

(2) Chinese Nukes Move South. Strategy Page, Oct. 26, 2010.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsub/articles/20101026.aspx

My comment:
(a) Paragraph 1 has two typos.

"It was only a year ago that China confirmed, as many suspected, that the first Type 093 boar entered service in December, 2006. Officially, that was a secret, and Chinese nuclear subs don't go to sea at much

The "boar"should be "boat" and "at much" should be "that much."
(b) Victor class submarine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_class_submarine
(section 1.3 Victor III: 25 were produced until 1991)
(c) Ledong 乐东黎族自治县
Yulin 榆林湾 (next to 三亚湾)

(3)  不安的日本拟加速潜艇舰队建设. VOA Chinese, Oct. 26, 2010.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20101026-JAPAN-EXPAND-SUBMARINE-FLEET-105766903.html

My comment:
(a) The report mentions 简氏国际防务评论亚洲特派员平可夫. Mr. Chang has a new hat.
(b) Mr. Kan is a red guard? I cannot find it in the English- or Japanese-language web sites (红卫兵 is written the same way in Japan). But China-based Chinese-language web sites states Mr. Kan was  东京工业大学红卫兵的头子 (graduated from social sciences 社会工学科 in his alma mater).

(4) 美国否认迫于中国压力推迟军演. BBC Chinese, Oct. 25, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2010/10/101025_us_skorea_drill_postponed.shtml

Note:
(a) The report refers to
(i) S. Korea, U.S. cancel naval exercise due to G-20 summit: sources. Yonhap, Oct. 24, 2010.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2010/10/24/86/0301000000AEN20101024002200315F.HTML
(ii) Phil Stewart and Jeremy Laurence, U.S.-South Korea aircraft carrier drill delayed. Reyters, Oct. 25, 2010.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69O04T20101025
(b) See also

Josh Rogin, Pentagon: We didn't delay Yellow Sea exercises to placate China. Foreign Policy, Oct. 25, 2010 (blog).
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/10/25/pentagon_we_didn_t_delay_yellow_sea_exercises_to_placate_china_0

Note:
(i) The blog text mentions the Cable, which seems to be the name of this blog. See top of the blog.
(ii) The blog quotes Geoff Morrell, who is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs/ Pentagon Press Secretary. Mr. Dave Lapan (quoted in the preceding Reuters report) seems to be his subordinate.

(5) Todd Pitman, Corporal details Marines’ hard life in southern Afghanistan;
Troops face constant danger, culture shock in war zone. Associated Press, Oct. 25, 2010.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2010/10/25/corporal_details_marines_hard_life_in_southern_afghanistan/



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