马英九晤美国州务卿访华团 促美对台免签证

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VOA Chinese, Oct 3, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20111002-Taiwan-President-Met-Delegation-from-US-Association-of-Secretaries-of-State-Pushing-for-Inclusion-in-US-visa-waiver-program-130946033.html
("*美国给36国免签待遇*  这36国大多是欧洲国家，亚洲国家有日本、韩国和新加坡")  

Note: 美国州务卿协会访华团  US National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS)


--------------------Separately
(1) 今年第五名西藏喇嘛自焚. VOA Chinese, Oct 3, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20111003-Tibet-China-Monk-130992903.html

My comment: This VOA report does not say clearly. but the latest self-immolation occurs on Monday (today). Whether he "tried" to burn himself or did is unclear for now.

(2) 分析：孙中山、辛亥革命与越南. BBC Chinese, Sept 30, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chinese_analysis/2011/09/110930_sun_yatsen_vietnam.shtml

(3) AK-74 Dies Of Overproduction. Sttrategy Page, Oct 3, 2011
http://strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/articles/20111003.aspx
("The company (Izhmash) that manufactures the AK-74 still has export sales,
which actually kept the firm in business for the last two decades. Orders
from the Russian military declined steeply with the end of the Cold War and
dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and export sales were pursued
aggressively. It was a matter of economic survival for Izhmash, which has
been manufacturing weapons since 1807. Izhmash has also tried to shut down
all the unlicensed manufacturers of AK-47/74 weapons. This has not been very
successful, as during the communist period, things like patents and
trademarks were regarded as capitalist degeneracy")

Note: For AK-200 and -74, see AK-47
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47
(section 3 Variants)

(4) Iran And The Ultimate Insult. Sttrategy Page, Oct 3, 2011
http://strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20111003.aspx
(Shia v Sunni; Iranians v Arabs)

(5) Grandchild of Topol Stumbles. Sttrategy Page, Oct 3, 2011.
http://strategypage.com/htmw/hticbm/articles/20111003.aspx

Quote:

"Unable to create an army or navy capable of defending their vast borders,
Russia is building up the one weapon, nuclear armed ballistic missiles, that
will be most likely to keep potential invaders out.

"The original Topol (RS-12M) was the first mobile ICBM, and entered service
in the late 1980s. It was also Russia's first solid fuel ICBM. The U.S.
introduced solid fuel rockets for ICBMs in the early 1960s, but it took
Russia two more decades to master this technology.

"A naval version of the Topol M (the RSM-56 Bulava), for use on SSBN
submarines, was supposed to enter mass production in 2008, but technical
problems caused that to be delayed for another three years. Too many of
Bulava test launches failed.


Note:
(a) RT-2PM Topol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-2PM_Topol
(other designations: RS-12M Topol; topol is Russian for poplar; mobile on
truck; In service  1988–present; The United States considered developing
their own road-mobile ICBM called the Midgetman, but the program was
canceled with the end of the Cold War [US had SLBMs alread])
(b) RT-2UTTKh Topol-M
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-2UTTKh_Topol-M
(mobile on truck; In service 1997- present)
(c) Regarding quotation 2. Intercontinental ballistic missile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_ballistic_missile  

(i) Quote from Wiki:

"As of 2009, all five of the nations with permanent seats on the United
Nations Security Council have operational ICBM systems: all have submarine-
launched missiles, and Russia, the United States and China also have land-
based missiles. In addition, Russia and China have mobile land-based
missiles.

section 3 Modern ICBMs: "ICBMs can be deployed from multiple platforms:
* in missile silos,
* on submarines,
* on heavy trucks,
* mobile launchers on rails.
The last three kinds are mobile and therefore hard to find."

(ii) My comment: We know China's submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)--JL-2 is the name--does not work. In addition, China's land-based mobile ICBM is on rails.


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