Cost Assessment for F-35 Fleet

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Nathan Hodge, The $1 Trillion Fighter-Jet Fleet; Sticker Shock Hits Washington as Pentagon Estimates Lifetime Cost of F-35sWall Street Journal, May 26, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303654804576345590857818106.html
("A new Pentagon forecast showing the total cost of owning and operating a fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters topping $1 trillion over more than 50 years has caused a case of sticker shock in Washington. And that price tag doesn't even include the $385 billion the Defense Department will spend to purchase 2,500 of the stealthy planes through 2035.")


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(1) 美国媒体评中国: 美中稀土贸易接近摊牌. VOA Chinese, May 26, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110526-US-Media-122674364.html

Note: The report cites
James Bacchus, A Rare-Earths Showdown Looms; WTO litigation over China's export limits is inevitable unless Beijing comes to its senses. Wall Street Journal Asia, May 20, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703509104576331010793763864.html

(2) 袁健生：美澄清陈炳德和马伦言论. VOA Chinese, May 26, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110526-US-TAIWAN-122675709.html
(Taiwan Representative to US "袁健生表示，[AIT Chairman] 薄瑞光向他表明，由于美、中、台关系错综复杂，即便在美国政府中，真正了解美国相关政策、说法其中细微差别的人也不多，因此发生口误的情况时有所闻。

(3) 学者：北京正思考如何看待中华民国. VOA Chinese, May 25, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110525-RICHARD-BUSH-TWO-CHINAS-122594519.html
(台湾国立政治大学教授刘复国)

(4) 达赖喇嘛拒绝担任流亡政府名誉首脑. VOA Chinese, May 25, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110525-INDIA-TIBET-EXILES-122609449.html  

(5) 曹郁芬, 駱家輝：美確保台自衛能力. Liberty Times, May 27, 2011 (available now).
http://libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/may/27/today-fo2.htm
("參院台灣連線主席馬南德茲質詢表示，台灣對中國的嚇阻能力正在喪失，他今天要送出四十位兩黨參議員聯名信函給歐巴馬總統，要求歐巴馬政府接受台灣採購F-16C/D型戰鬥機的採購意向書，並要求駱家輝表態")

Note: That is Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Menendez
(born to Cuban immigrants; In January 2006, he was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jon Corzine, who resigned upon being elected Governor of New Jersey. Menendez was elected to his own full six-year term in the 2006 U.S. Senate election)
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