来自台湾，郭台生为北京刺探军情被判刑

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VOA Chinese, May 31, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110531-uncut-news-122862174.html
("星岛日报曾报导，郭台生是抗日名将薛岳的女婿")

Note: The report is based on
Pauline Arrillaga, How a Networking Immigrant Became a Spy. Associated P5ress, May 9, 2011.
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/Article_2011-05-08-Stealing%20for%20China-The%20Networker/id-pd5c92aa7b2604340a1d9a80609b5b79f


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(1) Jens Kastner, Taiwan Subs Plan Tests the Waters. Asia Times, June 1, 2011 (available now).
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/MF01Ad01.html

Quote:

"Yet building diesel-electric subs is not a small matter, and countries that have the expertise to do so are few. South Korea, certainly ahead of Taiwan in terms of mechanical engineering, had three brand-new boats out of service for much of 2010 because its engineers didn't get some bolts right.

"'After Taiwan has lost air and sea control, it's the subs that will still be able to attack groups of amphibious landing craft,' said Wang [Jyh-perng, a Taiwanese researcher].

"If Taiwan were to get subs, they could become an annoyance to Japanese and US armed forces in their daily routine. In January, Tokyo Shimbun reported that the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's most prominent mission had become stepping up surveillance in waters labelled as the 'TGT triangle,' a maritime area that covers Tokyo, Guam and Taiwan, to track intrusions of China's submarine fleet, already consisting of not fewer than 65 vessels. 'What the US and Japan really aren't short of is a few Taiwanese subs bobbing up and down there, making surveillance even more complicated,' a US defense expert told Asia Times Online on condition of anonymity.

My comment:
(a) Regarding quotation 2. Imagine China destroys all military infrastructure of Taiwan, how can a  submarine fleet, if Taiwan does has one, be supplied or repaired?
(b) Reagrding quotation 3. I have thought Japan will get involved as a supplier or, at most, a rearguard.

(2) Katie Johnston Chase, Dreamliner is the plane to thank. Boston Globe, May 28, 2011.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2011/05/28/new_787_dreamliner_to_connect_hub_asia/

Quote:

"Japan Airlines will be the first carrier to fly the 787 out of Logan International Airport when service starts here in April [next year].

"Other planes can’t make the 13 1/2-hour flight efficiently from Logan because its 10,000-foot runways aren’t long enough to allow those aircraft to take off fully loaded with passengers, cargo, and enough fuel to make the journey nonstop. 'We don’t have the mega runways that Kennedy offers. They can launch nonstops out of Kennedy to just about any destination in the world, fully loaded,’ said Edward Freni, director of aviation for the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Logan.

Boeing 787 "is expected to be delivered to its first airline, All Nippon Airways Co., in August or September.

Note:
(a) Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is a state agency that operates seaports and airports.
(b) How Logan Operates. Massport, undated.
http://www.massport.com/environment/environmental_reporting/Noise%20Abatement/HowLoganOperates.aspx
("Logan's airfield layout, illustrated in Figure 1, consists of six runways, which vary in length from 2,557 feet to 10,081 feet")
(c) John F. Kennedy International Airport
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport
(2 Runways and operational infrastructure: No 13R-31L, with length 14,572 feet (4,442 m), is the "econd-longest commercial runway in North America (the longest is a 16,000 feet (4,900 m) runway at Denver International Airport))


(3) Brian MacQuarrie, The End Game l  Winding Down an Almost Forgotten War; Casualties are much rarer now, but the risks remain real for the US forces charged with preparing Iraq to stand on its own. Boston Globe, May 29, 2011.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2011/05/29/winding_down_an_almost_forgotten_war_in_iraq/

My comment:
(a) This article is the first of a series.
(b) See the graphic, which shows fewer and fewer American deaths as a result of improvised explosive device (IED).
(c) Go to web page 4 and read the section with the heading "Humble and eager to learn" to see how the embryonic form of Iraq Air Force is whipped into shap.

* whip or lick something into shape. Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears. 4th ed, 2007.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whip+sth+into+shape
("to put something into good condition, possibly with considerable effort")

(4) 中国军队新规定禁止军人上网交友. BBC Chinese, May 31, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2011/05/110531_china_soldier_internet.shtml
("以防范泄密和其他违纪违法行为")

My comment: Just a few weeks ago, it was reported that US Department of Defense decided not to be in the way as GIs love it.

(5) 中国反对安理会谴责叙利亚. VOA Chinese, May 31, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110531-CHINA-SAYS-UN-RESOLUTION-ON-SYRIA-UNHELPFUL-122892289.html
("中国5月31日(星期二)表示支持叙利亚镇压拥护民主的抗议者")

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