Lockheed Lobbies Anew for New Taiwan F-16s

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Jim Wolf, Exclusive: Lockheed Lobbies Anew for New Taiwan F-16s. Sept 29, 2011
‎http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lockheed-lobbies-anew-taiwan-f-16s-023628570.html
(Lockheed's memo to lawmakers, dated September 22, a day after the administration announced an upgrade, said "Taiwan has some of the best-protected, hardened aircraft shelters in the region, the memo argued. In addition, the self-ruled island is advancing the 'state-of-the-art in rapid runway repair technology'")

My comment:
(a) The memo might have aimed at senate vote, which failed on Sept 22.
(b) A summary of this report can be founbd in
美国军火商敦促对台出售新战机.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2011/09/110929_lochheed_taiwan_us.shtml


-----------------------Separately
(1) 日再报中国调查船进入未通告海域. BBC Chinese, Sept 29, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2011/09/110929_japan_china_dispute.shtml
("2001年两国达成任何一方进入有争议的海域实施海洋调查时，必须提前两个月事先通告对方的协议")

(2) China Expands. Strategy Page, Sept 29, 2011. BBC Chinese, Sept 29, 2011.
http://strategypage.com/htmw/htspace/articles/20110929.aspx

Quote:

The recent launch of a mi8litary communications satellite, Chinasat 1A, "is the tenth satellite launch for China this year, and nine of them were successful.

"China has launched seven reconnaissance satellites in the last five years. That's more than China launched in the three previous decades.

(3) The Great Russian Fade. Strategy Page, Sept 29, 2011.
http://strategypage.com/htmw/htsub/articles/20110929.aspx

Quote:

"twenty years ago, Russia (then the Soviet Union) had a nuclear sub fleet larger (at 180 boats) than that of the United States (150 subs).

"Russia has never been a great naval power.

My comment: The report says "most of Russians warship building capability has disappeared since 1991."  This is because Soviet shipyards around Baltic and Black Seas were gone, when USSR disintegrated.
List of shipyards of the Soviet Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipyards_of_the_Soviet_Union

(4) Controversy Over Dam Fuels Rare Public Outcry in Myanmar. New York Times, Sept 29, 2011 (date in print)
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/world/asia/controversy-over-dam-fuels-rare-public-outcry-in-myanmar.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=myanmar&st=cse
(China "plans to import 90 percent of the electricity the project generates, under financial conditions that have not been fully explained to the public")

Note:
(a) Myitsone Dam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myitsone_Dam
(literally the Confluence Dam; It is estimated that it will provide between 3,600 to 6,000 megawatts of electricity for Yunnan, China; The dam site is located 3.2 km (2.0 mi) mile below the confluence of the Mali River and the N'Mai River about 42 kilometres (26.1 mi) north of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, in northern Burma)
(b) Irrawaddy River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrawaddy_River
(Myanmar's largest river and most important commercial waterway; Originating from the confluence of the N'mai and Mali rivers; section 1 Etymology; cities along teh river: Mandalay and Yangon (capital))
(c) mythic (adj): "having qualities suitable to myth : LEGENDARY <the twilight of a mythic professional career — Clayton Riley>"
www.m-w.com
(d) The "choppy" in "choppy English"
(adj): "DISCONNECTED <choppy writing>"

(5) 俄法院开庭审理涉华间谍案. VOA Chinese, Sept 29, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110929-Chinese-Spy-Case-130772483.html
(圣彼得堡城市法院开始审理两名俄国教授; 哈尔滨讲学期间提供情报)

(6) 美国指控领馆保安人员涉嫌间谍罪. VOA Chinese, Sept 28, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110928-US-China-Espionage-130738498.html

Note: Former Guard Charged with Attempting to Communicate National Defense Information to People’s Republic of China. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Sept 28, 2011
http://www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-releases/2011/former-guard-charged-with-attempting-to-communicate-national-defense-information-to-peoples-republic-of-china
(A former contract guard working at a US Consulate in China, from about March 1, 2011 to about Aug. 5, 2011, Bryan Underwood, 31, "knowingly and unlawfully attempted to communicate photographs and other information relating to the national defense to representatives of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)")

(7) 美国之音举办首次中国记者讲习班. VOA Chinese, Sept 27, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110927-HK-VOA-Journalists-Seminar-130644053.html

(8) Bill Gertz, Chinese Think Tank Also Serves as Spy Arm. Washington Times, Sept 28, 2011.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/28/chinese-think-tank-also-serves-as-spy-arm/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

Note: CUI Liru/ China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)
崔 立如/ 中国现代国际关系研究院
www.cicir.ac.cn/

(9) John R Bolton and Dan Blumenthal, Time to Kill the Law of the Sea Treaty--Again; If the Senate ratifies it, China will have its best weapon yet to limit US action in Asia.  Wall Street Journal, Sept 29, 2011.
http://www.aei.org/article/104208

Note: "The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) [is] also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea treaty."
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea
(10) Kathrin Hille, China WarnsAgainst Curbing Its Rise. Financial Times, Sept 29, 2011
(The report quotes People's Dailyas saying, "Certain countries think as long as they can balance China with the help of US military power, they are free to do whatever they want")

Note: The report is based on
钟声, 用合作的智慧构建亚洲安全新格局. 人民日报, Sept 28, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2011-09/28/c_122097366.htm

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