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BBC Chinese, Mar 28, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2011/03/110328_uk_france_libya.shtml
(不要坐视弃暗投明的最后机会; 一份联合声明)


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(1) 菲律宾拟增强南中国海军力对抗中国. BBC Chinese, Mar 28, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2011/03/110328_philippines_arm_chiansea.shtml

Note: 帕加萨岛 (中国称中业岛）  Pag-Asa island, the biggest island occupied by forward Filipino troops in the Spratlys

(2) 分析：中国实力增长为何令许多人不安. BBC Chinese, Mar 28, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2011/03/110328_ana_china_power.shtml

Quote:

"同2005年的调查相比，对中国经济崛起持负面看法的人数在发达国家，尤其是在西方工业七国，有较大幅度的增加。认为中国经济实力增长不是一件好事的人在这些国家已经开始占据多数。

"这次调查另一个引人注目的现象是，发展中国家，特别是非洲国家普遍对中国经济实力的增长持正面看法。

Note: The poll can be found in the home page of Globe Scan
http://www.globescan.com/
(Rising Concern about China’s Increasing Power: Global Poll. Mar 27, 2011)

The poll asked, among other questions, views (positive or negative) on "China Becoming More Powerful Economically" and "China Becoming More Powerful Militarily."

(3) 英国网上拍卖“皇家方舟”号航空母舰. BBC Chinese, Mar 28, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/uk/2011/03/110328_uk_carrier_auction.shtml

Note:
(a) 皇家方舟 HMS Royal Ark; 无敌 HMS Invincible
(b) BBC (English) in addition says, "Also on sale currently are three Type-42 destroyers - HMS Exeter, HMS Southampton and HMS Nottingham."

(4) North Korea Builds A Bigger Little Shark. Strategy Page, Mar 28, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsub/articles/20110328.aspx
("building an improved version of its Song (Shark) class mini-sub")

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.

(5) Is There Anything This Turret Can't Do. Strategy Page, Mar 24, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htarm/articles/20110324.aspx

Note: Remote Weapon Stations: It’s all about safety. Kongsberg (headquarters Kongsberg
Norway), undated.
http://www.kongsberg.com/en/KPS/News/FeatureStories/KPS.aspx

Remote Weapon Stations
http://www.kongsberg.com/en/KPS/Products/RemoteWeaponStation.aspx

There is no need to read text of either. Just take a look at photo in each to see what RWS looks like close-up and where it is mounted in an armored vehicle.

(6) The Sharp End Of High Tech. Strategy Page, Mar 23, 2011.
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htinf/articles/20110323.aspx

Quote:

"compared to previous wars, U.S. infantry are now much harder to kill. An American infantryman in World War II or Vietnam were three times more likely to get killed in combat.

"GPS guided artillery shells and rockets gave the infantry even more of these precise firepower options.

(7) 美国：利比亚重要但不涉及美重大利益. VOA Chinese, Mar 27, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110327-US-Libya-118742659.html

My comment: My sense is that many Americans have different views about Libya, if they have a view at all. Even offcials in executive and legislative branches voice various opinions. Somtimes the same person changes stances within days. In this report, it is defense secretary Robert Gates who says 不涉及美重大利益. Paragraph 3.

(8) Bret Stephens, The Libya Mission Was 'Never About Regime Change' Defense Secretary Gates says Iran isn't winning in the Middle East and explains why he regrets a much-quoted line in his recent speech at West Point. Wall Street Journal, Mar 28, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704517404576224993450738166.html

Quote:

(a) "As our interview nears its end, I turn to a speech Mr. Gates gave last month to the cadets at West Point. In widely quoted remarks, he said that 'Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should "have his head examined," as Gen. MacArthur so delicately put it.' I ask him whether that line should be taken to suggest that the United States should never have entered the wars it is fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'To tell you the truth, I wish I hadn't even had that sentence in the speech,' he confesses. 'I should have taken it out because it was a distraction from the larger message in the speech, which was the importance of the flexibility of the American military to deal with a range of threats.'

"Mr. Gates clearly seems pained by the subject and eager to clear the record. 'I'm the guy who not only increased the end strength of the Army and the Marine Corps, but pressed for the increase in the number of troops in Afghanistan. I totally believe in the mission that we're in in Afghanistan. And so, you know, I was really dismayed to see that what I had said was interpreted as questioning the mission in Afghanistan, because I absolutely do not. I totally believe in it.' Again, Mr. Gates circles back to his point: 'I believe we have a winning strategy. So I am totally committed in that respect. And just to repeat, I was just really dismayed that what I said was misinterpreted that way.'

(b) "Then he comes to the second part: 'The thing that would mean the most to me when I leave this job is if those kids in uniform remember they had a secretary of defense who, from the first day, they knew had their back.'
   
My comment: There is no need to read the rest of this interview.

(9) Christian Wienberg and Chris Cooper, Shippers Stick With Tokyo as U.S. Says Radiation Easily Cleaned. Bloomberg, Mar 28, 2011.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-28/shippers-maintain-tokyo-route-as-u-s-says-radiation-is-easily-cleaned-off.html
(Five of the six biggest container shippers, including the No. 5 Evergreen Marine Corp. of Taipei,  are maintaining routes to Tokyo and Yokohama: Japan’s two busiest container ports. Only Hapag-Lloyd AG, the No. 4, is diverting vessels to docks in the south of the country)

Note: According to Alphaliner
http://www.alphaliner.com/top100/index.php
, OOCL is No. 14 among container shippers.
Orient Overseas Container Line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient_Overseas_Container_Line
(OOCL; founded by C. Y. Tung In 1947; Headquarters Hong Kong)

* Tung Chao Yung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tung_Chao_Yung
(董兆榮; better known as 董浩雲; also known as C. Y. Tung; 1912-1982; born at the present-day 舟山市, then under Ningbo) father of Tung Chee Hwa 董建華)


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