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   dr pepper

   10 December 2010

   What a War Between China and the United States Would Look Like

   popular mechanics este un site pe care am inceput sa il apreciez de cand a luat pozitie impotriva teoreticienilor conspirationisti insa scenariul conceput intr’un eventual conflict intre china si us pentru taiwan m’a dezamagit un pic.
   sau poate vrea doar sa traga un semnal de alarma.

   The man who would face the Chinese in battle, Adm. Patrick Walsh, the current commander of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet, sees preparation as a way to avoid a future fight. „When we look at these sorts of developments, such as the ASBM, they are technological developments that we respect, but do not necessarily fear,” Walsh says. „The key element in any sort of deterrent strategy is to make it clear to those who would use a given piece of technology that we have the means to counter it, and to maintain a technological edge.”

   Right now the Chinese seem to have taken the lead in this new arms race. When RAND released a report in 2000 describing the potential outcome of a Sino-­American conflict over Taiwan, the United States won the war handily. Nine years later, the nonpartisan think tank revised its analysis, accounting for Beijing’s updated air force, its focus on cyber warfare and its ability to use ballistic missiles to take out American satellites. RAND’s new conclusion: The United States would ultimately lose an air war, and an overall conflict would be more difficult and costly than many had imagined.

   insa cu siguranta china tatoneaza terenul cu aportul coreei de nord.

   „I get criticized often for saying this, but I think Beijing is capable of acting irrationally when it comes to Taiwan,” says retired Rear Adm. Eric McVadon, who served as a naval attaché in Beijing and is currently senior adviser of Asia-Pacific studies at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis in Cambridge, Mass. „They are obsessed with Taiwan. On some given day, it’s entirely possible for people to be standing around a table in the Politburo in Beijing, and someone gets the ball rolling. And when it stops, we’re at war.”

   nu stiam despre china ca este atat de obsedata de taiwan.

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   dr pepper

   10 December 2010

   Mai departe despre China:

   We underestimated China, US official says after reports of J-20 stealth fighter

   Another thing that’s been underestimated is the development of the new anti-ship ballistic missile. That weapon “has increased their probability of being able to employ a salvo of missiles to be able to hit a maneuvering target,” Dorsett said. This includes aircraft carriers, for example. But such moving targets are tough to hit, he emphasized. “The chances of hitting a carrier with a ballistic missile are pretty remote,” he said.

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