When Will China Become a Global Superpower?

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Thair Shaikh, When will China become a global superpower?  CNN, June 10, 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/06/10/china.military.superpower/
("Lawrence Saez, senior lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, in London, says: 'When China decides to take over Taiwan, that is when it will be a superpower. Unquestionably that will be the day'")

Note:
(a) Dr Lawrence Sáez of School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London:

"BA(CALIFORNIA) MALD(FLETCHER) MA PHD(CHICAGO)

Department of Politics and International Studies
Senior Lecturer in Comparative and International Politics

Centre of South Asian Studies
Chair, Centre of South Asian Studies"
http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36948.php

* MALD. The Fletcher School, Tufts University: A Graduate School of International Affairs.
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/mald/default.shtml
("The largest degree program at The Fletcher School, the two-year Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) is the School’s keystone international affairs degree")
(b) Saez and Shaikh (variant of Sheikh) are Spanish and Muslim surname, respectively.


-----------------------------------Separately
(1) 越南计划在争议水域附近进行军演. VOA Chinese, June 10, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110610-SOUTH-CHINA-SEA-123632144.html
("河内说，演习将于星期一举行，并警告民用船只离开越南广南省附近的这一区域")

(2) 中共对外交往：淡化意识形态分歧. VOA Chinese, June 10, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110610-CPC-Downplays-Ideology-123606424.html
(中共中央联络部, or 中联部 for short)

(3) 法国将就拉法叶舰案赔偿台湾. VOA Chinese, June 10, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110610-TAIWAN-WON-LAFAYETTE-WARSHIPS-CASE-123607359.html
("针对拉法叶军舰采购案，法国巴黎上诉法院日前裁定，法国方面必须赔偿台湾5亿9千1百万美元的违约金" or roughly $17m)

(4) 中国调停利比亚交战各方. VOA Chinese, June 9, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110609-CHINA-LIBYA-123577174.html
("图罢黜卡扎菲，结束其40年执政的利比亚反对派武装，即将前往中国寻求支持。* * * 与此同时，利比亚领导人卡扎菲的一名特使刚刚结束了对中国为期两天的访问。访问期间，这名特使敦促中国帮助实现一项停火")

(5)
(a) 国军共军一家亲？台退役将领言论生波. VOA Chinese, June 9, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110609-taiwan-retired-generals-123575329.html
(b) 台湾政坛“中国军”争议风波未平. BBC Chinese, June 10, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_news/2011/06/110610_taiwan_general_military.shtml

(6) Charles Simmins, Navy Sailing in Troubled Waters. Yahoo News, June 7, 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110607/us_ac/8601003_navy_sailing_in_troubled_waters_1
("The USS Chung-Hoon, a guided-missile destroyer, has been sent on an independent deployment to the South China Sea and Sulu Sea. Among its missions are what is delicately termed 'freedom of navigation operations.' The ship will be sailing through waters that the U.S. considers international waters to assert right of free passage and to demonstrate that the international community does not accept national claims to the contrary")

My comment:
(a) This free-lance report is the ONLY report of this kind (about this dispatch, that is).
(b) Come on, you guys have heard of this warship before, haven't you?
USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chung-Hoon_(DDG-93)
(named in honor of Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon (1910–1979); On 12 March 2009, Fox News reported that Chung-Hoon was escorting USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS-23) after the latter had been harassed by Chinese vessels in waters 75 miles south of Hainan)

USNS Impeccable had been harassed by bare-chested sailors on small PRC boats, Remember?
(c) Sulu Sea is clearly marked in the map of
Palawan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palawan

Sulu Sea "is separated from the South China Sea in the northwest by Palawan, and from the Celebes Sea in the southeast by the Sulu Archipelago."
Sulu Sea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulu_Sea


(7) Robert Guy Matthews, Alcoa Unveils New Plane Materials to Compete With Composites. Wall Street Journal, Juen 10, 2011,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304392704576375541294029386.html

Quote:

"Alcoa Inc. said it has developed a lighter, crack- and corrosion-resistant aluminum that makes planes more fuel-efficient while requiring less maintenance.

"About 15%, or $2.9 billion, of Alcoa's 2010 revenue of $21 billion came from the aerospace industry.

"Alcoa said its new aluminum is mixed with other alloys, mainly titanium, to reduce weight and better withstand changes in air pressure that cause metal to contract and expand as planes land and take off.

"Hexcel Corp.[. headqaurtered at  in Stamford, Connecticut, is] one of the industry's largest carbon-fiber suppliers * * * About 55% of Hexcel's $1.2 billion in 2010 revenue came from the aerospace market.

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