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This is the force that needs to be reckoned with and undoubtedly it is the emerging superpower.  With so many losses in human lives during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, but China today is determined to emulate the United State and the West militarily and economically. Some ASEAN members who have territorial dispute with China especially Vietnam may not be able to feel at ease and the moment for the Viets to dread most is approaching. Our Laos, if plays the card right, will gain tremendously.
 


China aims for military might
China is rapidly developing a highly modern military that will be the equal of Western armies with the ability to operate anywhere in the world.
By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
Last Updated: 3:08AM BST 29 Sep 2008
Senior defence analysts said that within the next decade the country will have an army that will be second only to America's military might which could "embolden" it to military action.
The rapid growth of China's navy is matched by its desire to expand into the Indian Ocean and South China Sea to feed resources into its voracious economy.
The analysts, from Jane's Information Group, believe that the Chinese Communist Party can only continue to rule the country if it maintains economic growth at more than 10 per cent. It is already investing heavily in Africa for food and natural resources but this could lead to conflict with India with the trade route that crosses the Indian Ocean.
 
Within the next year the first navy pilots will begin training for aircraft carrier operations that are expected to be operational early in the next decade.
A London conference attended by defence business leaders was told that new air-to-air refuelling planes are being delivered that will double the range of the Chinese air force's increasingly modernised fighters.
The army has been substantially slimmed down into a leaner fighting force with new tanks and armoured vehicles coming off the production line.
"China is developing a modern highly manoeuvrable
 force able to operate anywhere as good if not better than Western armies," said Christopher Foss, editor of Jane's Armour and Artillery.
In the last 10 years China had made "dramatic progress, make no doubt about that," he warned.
But it is China's growing naval might that poses the greatest threat. By 2015 it is expected to have six Jin-class submarines capable of firing the JL2 ballistic nuclear missile that could threaten both the western and eastern American seaboards acting as deterrent to any US intervention if Taiwan or other areas erupted in conflict.
 
China's nuclear attack submarine force is expanding "quite considerably" with six T93 hunter killers and more than a dozen Kilo class boats.
Fast attack craft, each carrying eight anti-ship missiles, are to increase from 40 to 100 giving the navy "a considerable capability", the conference heard.
Christian Le Miere, editor of Jane's Intelligence Review, said China would fear America less if it had the threat of nuclear weapons off US waters with a "very capable military to back up diplomatic moves".
"People will keep an eye on China but there is no reason to think that conflict is inevitable," he said.
He added that the "greatest threat of violence" would come when China's military was fully revamped by 2020 and when it was "emboldened by military growth".
While there has been a "step change in capabilities" the Chinese navy is a considerable distance from US Navy which spends ten time China's budget building twice the number of vessels.
China, with an estimated defence budget of £35 billion, is currently on one of three countries developing a "fifth generation" advanced fighter called the J-XX that could be on a par with American planes although the project is highly secret.
 
Increasingly technology from European countries is being seen in Chinese equipment, the conference heard.
 
A major programme is in place to build 6,000 armoured vehicles at a cost of £7 billion that will include a "very advanced armoured package" of T99 tanks and the eight-wheeled VN1 armed with a 100mm gun, 30mm canon and 7.62mm machine gun.
As one of the "most significant vehicles" on the battlefield for the People's Liberation Army the 2,500 VN1 will be air transportable.
In recent years China has spent considerable sums on improving capability, new landing craft and special harbours. There had been a major build up of assault ships including 30 large tank landing craft that would allow long range operations.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3096464/China-aims-for-military-might.html

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ils semblent mignons et effrayants en même temps. je pense que les Etats-Unis sont souci au sujet du Chinois.

yes, they're to be reckon with like it or not.

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Laos prefers cooperative more than devisive and based on state to state relations. Laos and China are imediatly  and very closed relations and alway we help each other to prevent the anemy and invaders from outside.


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ta ma de, shei dong fu yu




China will become the most powerful military affair in the world---now china is secretly manufacturing the mother ship ( A mother ship is a vessel or aircraft that carries a smaller vessel or aircraft that operates independently from it)!!!!!!!!and then kick the chinese Guoming dang ass in Taiwan if necessary and kick the US ass if the US tries to invade the china sea...



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It's nice, but I just pray for peace. No more of these killings.

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take care your people first



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Seau Chom Doil wrote:

 

take care your people first

 



 Thanks for posting this.



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china still can't be a superpower. a lots of supper poverties there still.blehblehbleh

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Anonymous wrote:

Laos prefers cooperative more than devisive and based on state to state relations. Laos and China are imediatly  and very closed relations and alway we help each other to prevent the anemy and invaders from outside.


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First of all, I don’t think it matters much how I view the leadership in Laos. What matters though, is how people in Laos think of their government and if majority of them are satisfied then I respect their voices. Besides, they are the ones who live there.
 
As far as the Chinese is concerned, I don’t think they will ever want to return back to the era of Mao Ze Dong when everybody was equally poor. If you think the videos posted by anonymous are worse, then you have not seen the video about India. We all know corruption is a very serious problem in our society; I don’t know if you read my other post in which I had strongly encouraged the greater freedom of the press; private- owned media is highly recommended in order to bring down corruption to a minimum level. In China for example, every news and media are owned by state, so all the news from local to provincial level are well kept under their control. The Chinese government tends to believe that by having harsh punishment within the constitution, they could deter corruption to the extent.
 
Their mayors, governors, police headquarters including the department of housing ministry are corrupted. They all colluded with private enterprises. Local police are acting like thugs; the developer strikes the best deals with them, the court issues order then the police would give the locals to move out if not they would start demolishing your homes. Some would get reasonable compensation, but many are not that lucky. Thousands of corrupted officials are put behind bars and some are put to death. Despite all of these, the development will go on; there is no stopping for sure. Majority of their people are proud of their country’s direction even the oversea Chinese share the pride. The People’s Republic of China, every year, produces hundreds and thousands of new millionaires, the stunning success in space, and the fourth largest economy in the world are just some of the few reasons for their people to feel undaunted by any Anti-China bashing. The counter demonstration during the Olympic Torch Relay around the world had also made their government felt with confidence.
 
Whether or not we like the Chinese is not the issue here. But they are the force that needs to be reckoned with in the future. I hope a rising China is also a peaceful China. US may still be the most powerful country in the world, but China is undeniably the most influential country in the world. Just click on the link below if you care to know the truth.




-- Edited by BruceLaoMan at 05:31, 2008-10-02

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Even the US congress has increasingly concerned about the Chinese’s overall modernization in their military’s capability. The concern to my belief is not so much about the threat that the Chinese would pose to our national security, but a potential challenge to American’s hegemony around the globe. China just like the Soviet Union would use their beautiful women to seduce our CIAs to gain access to our advance weapon system. The Chinese’s espionage is very aggressive and US heavily depends on their counter intelligence. Frankly, if I were the CIA, I wouldn’t be able to resist the seduction from their cute China dolls. It won’t take long before I finally succumb to her sexual flirtation then I would probably tell her anything she wants to know. By the time I realize that I am being used, it might already be too late and even the Lord Buddha won’t be able to help me by then..
 
 Below is the transcript during testimony to US congress.
Updated September 12, 2008

135 pages in PDF format

Concern has grown in Congress and elsewhere since the 1990s about China’s military modernization. Several of the U.S. Navy’s most expensive acquisition programs, as well as Navy initiatives for home-porting ships and for training sailors, are for developing or maintaining capabilities that could be useful or critical in countering improved Chinese maritime military capabilities in coming years.
The issue for Congress addressed in this report is: How should China’s military modernization be factored into decisions about U.S. Navy programs?
Several elements of China’s military modernization have potential implications for future required U.S. Navy capabilities. These include theater-range ballistic missiles (TBMs), land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs), anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs), surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), land-based aircraft, naval mines, submarines, surface combatants, amphibious ships, nuclear weapons, and possibly high-power microwave (HPM) devices.
China’s naval limitations or weaknesses include capabilities for operating in waters more distant from China, joint operations, C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance), long-range surveillance and targeting systems, anti-air warfare (AAW), antisubmarine warfare (ASW), mine countermeasures (MCM), and shipbuilding dependence on foreign suppliers.
Observers believe a near-term focus of China’s military modernization is to field a force that can succeed in a short-duration conflict with Taiwan and act as an anti-access force to deter U.S. intervention or delay the arrival of U.S. forces, particularly naval and air forces, in such a conflict.
Some analysts speculate that China may attain (or believe that it has attained) a capable maritime anti-access force, or elements of it, by about 2010. Other observers believe this will happen later.
Potential broader or longer-term goals of China’s naval modernization include asserting China’s regional military leadership and protecting China’s maritime territorial, economic, and energy interests.
China’s naval modernization has potential implications for required U.S. Navy capabilities in terms of preparing for a conflict in the Taiwan Strait area, maintaining U.S. Navy presence and military influence in the Western Pacific, and countering Chinese ballistic missile submarines. Preparing for a conflict in the Taiwan Strait area could place a premium on the following: on-station or early-arriving Navy forces, capabilities for defeating China’s maritime anti-access forces, and capabilities for operating in an environment that could be characterized by information warfare and possibly electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and the use of nuclear weapons.
China’s naval modernization raises potential issues for Congress concerning the role of China in Department of Defense and Navy planning; the size of the Navy; the Pacific Fleet’s share of the Navy; forward home porting in the Western Pacific; the number of aircraft carriers, submarines, and ASW platforms; Navy missile defense, air-warfare, AAW, ASW, and mine warfare programs; Navy computer network security; and EMP hardening. This report will be updated as events warrant.
N.B.: As the CRS has no public website, this report is hosted by the State Department.
 


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BruceLao

What do you think about Fa Lun gong?

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khonthakek wrote:

BruceLao

What do you think about Fa Lun gong?

Falun Gong, to me is quite dangerous to our society based on their doctrine and the self-immolation that I had witnessed during the violent protest in 2001. I certainly don’t want to be part of it neither I want any of my family to join this cult. They would set themselves on fire according to their beliefs in transcending worldly life and death and to go beyond forbearance to attaining absolute completion.
To me every life is precious and to douse oneself with gasoline then set afire is beyond the scope of my understanding. They are pathetically fanatics indeed. Their leader whose name is Gongzhuling has been living comfortably in US and he was sued by thousands of his followers a few years ago for profiting millions of dollars selling his so-called “Holy Water” to his members. He found this religion in 1999, but it was outlawed by then the President Ziang Ze Min in 2001. Gongzhuling did not hesitate to advance his political gain in the expense of these people whom he had easily brainwashed. I also heard about sexual engagement with minors inside the cult. Majority of Chinese people despise them so much. I am sure there are many good Falun Gongers too, but when the bad outweighs the good, then it’s safer for society to eradicate this unhealthy practice.







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