US-China Military Relationship

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Michael Wines, Wary Rivals, US and China Try to Reach Truce on Military Strategy. New York Times, July 15, 2011 (title in print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/world/asia/15beijing.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=WINES%20MULLEN&st=cse

Quote:

"By the time Admiral Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, departed on Thursday morning, one might never have suspected that each side bases its military planning on the prospect that the other might be the enemy. They do, however, and that reality hung like a dark cloud over the visit

"And it has acknowledged the development of a seagoing missile that some experts say could strike ships as far as 1,025 miles away.

Note: Quotation alludes to DF-21D. See
(a) Bradley Perrett, China Details Anti-ship Missile Plans. Aviation Week, July 15, 2011
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/awst/2011/07/18/AW_07_18_2011_p24-347899.xml&headline=China%20Details%20Anti-ship%20Missile%20Plans
(b) J Michael Cole, Official Confirms ‘Carrier Killer’ Is Being Developed. GAME CHANGER:Reports claim the Dong Feng 21D anti-ship missile has a range of almost 3,000km, nearly twice as long as previously assessed by the US military. Taipei Times, July 14, 2011
http://www.taipeitimes.net/News/front/archives/2011/07/14/2003508170
("His [General Chen Bingde's] comments came as the English-language China Daily reported that the DF-21D had a range of 2,700km, well beyond assessments by the Office of Naval Intelligence last year, which put it at about 1,500km")
(c) Hu Yinan, Li Xiaokun and Cui Haipei, Official Confirms China Building Aircraft Carrier. China Daily, July 12, 2011
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-07/12/content_12881089.htm
("Chen did not disclose on Monday how many aircraft carriers China plans to build. He did acknowledge, though, that Beijing is developing the Dongfeng-21D, a ballistic missile with a maximum range of 2,700 kilometers and the ability to strike moving targets - including aircraft carriers - at sea.")


--------------------------Separately
(1) Thom Shanker and Elisabeth Bumiller, After Suffering Damaging Cyberattack, the Pentagon Takes Defensive Action. New York Times, July 15, 2011.

Quote:

"The Defense Department suffered one of its worst digital attacks in history in March, when a foreign intelligence service hacked into the computer system of a corporate contractor and obtained 24,000 Pentagon files during a single intrusion, senior officials said Thursday.  

"Officials declined to identify the military contractor whose data system was compromised in the March attack. They also refused to name the nation they suspected was the culprit, saying that any accusation was a matter of official, and perhaps confidential, diplomatic dialogue.

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

(2) Andrew Kohut, The World Says China Will Overtake America; But not many are cheering. Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303678704576442400450218990.html

Note: The articles is based on
U.S. Favorability Ratings Remain Positive; China Seen Overtaking U.S. as Global Superpower. Pew Global Attitudes Project, July 13, 2011.
http://pewglobal.org/2011/07/13/china-seen-overtaking-us-as-global-superpower/




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