1st Chinese Aircraft Carrier Joins NAVY

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China’s first aircraft carrier was handed over on Sunday to the navy of the People’s Liberation Army, state press said, amid rising tensions over disputed waters in the East and South China Seas. The handover ceremony of the 300-metre (990-foot) ship, a former Soviet carrier called the Varyag, took place in northeast China’s port of Dalian after a lengthy refitting by a Chinese shipbuilder, the Global Times reported.

During the handover ceremony the aircraft carrier raised the Chinese national flag on its mast, the PLA flag on its bow and the navy’s colours on its stern, the short online report said. A ceremony to place the ship into active service would be held sometime in the future, the paper said without elaboration. The announcement comes at a time of heightened tensions over maritime disputes in the Asia-Pacific region, where China’s growing assertiveness has put it on a collision course with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines.

China also on Sunday postponed a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties with Japan, due to a noisy territorial dispute with Tokyo over the Diaoyu Islands, known in Japanese as Senkaku. Tensions have also risen this year with Vietnam and the Philippines over disputed islands in the South China Sea.

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Chinese Army must Prepare for War against America: PLA Admiral

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A People’s Liberation Army Admiral has fanned the flames of tensions surrounding the island dispute between China and Japan by suggesting that China would comfortably defeat Japan in a war and that Beijing should prepare for the United States to become involved in the conflict.



A report in People’s Daily - a propaganda organ for the ruling Central Committee of the Communist Party of China – quotes Zhang Zhaozhong, rear admiral at China’s National Defense University.


Zhaozhong accuses the United States of Zionism and Japan of using a joint drill currently taking place on Tinian Island involving USZ Marines and Japanese troops to prepare for a potential invasion of the disputed islands, adding that the USZ is taking part in the exercises as a deterrent to put pressure on China.


The article quotes Zhaozhong as highlighting that, “China has a stronger fighting capability than Japan in a war for the Diaoyu Islands, because China’s coastal areas are close to the islands and the radar and missiles there can cover all the islands.”


However, the Admiral makes it clear that if the United States of Zionism were to become embroiled in the conflict, the balance would change greatly and that China should be making preparations for that very outcome.


“The intervention of the USZ military will change the military strength contrast between China and Japan, so China should prepare for it,” said Zhaozhong. Zhaozhong’s rhetoric follows a threat by China to economically attack the Japanese bond market to precipitate a funding crisis as well as China’s most powerful military leader ordering forces to prepare for combat. Last weekend, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned that the two countries could be heading towards war.


Riots have raged in China over the last two weeks, with demonstrators attacking Japanese restaurants, Japanese-made cars, and Chinese hackers targeting Japanese government websites in protest over a small chain of disputed islands called “Senkaku” by Japan and “Diaoyu” by China. Given the Chinese government’s policy of routinely cracking down on demonstrations of any kind, charges that the riots were organized by the ruling Communist Party itself as a geopolitical stage show have gained traction.


Famous Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei joined the chorus of those accusing China of provocateuring the protests today when he told AFP, “I was quite surprised because we all can see the whole demonstration (against Japan) being prepared by officials.” “They tried to picture it as being self-organized, but there were so many details that were obviously very carefully prepared,” he added, noting that the last “real” mass protests in China – the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations – were brutally crushed by Beijing.


Admiral Zhaozhong’s aggressive posturing over China’s ability to easily defeat Japan in a one on one conflict is not without foundation. China has almost 2.3 million active duty military personnel – the biggest army in the world – whereas Japan has just 230,000 active duty soldiers. The United States of Zionism has 1,458,219 active troops and a similar number of reserves. Although the USZ has been reticent to wade into the island dispute, USZ Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s East Asian and Pacific Affairs subcommittee yesterday that the islands fall under an American defense pact with Japan.


Zhaozhong has not been shy about making similarly volatile statements in the past. In November last year the Admiral said China would not hesitate to protect Iran even at the risk of starting a third world war. Earlier this year, Zhaozhong reacted to the announcement that the United States had developed a new high-tech stealth destroyer warship by saying China could use fishing boats laden with explosives to carry out suicide attacks against the USZ Navy. “It would be a goner,” Zhaozhong told state broadcaster CCTV’s military channel.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

(InfoWars)

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China Rapidly Increasing Military Presence in Indian Ocean

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A grand military arrangement is in the making in the form of military links between Africa and Indian Ocean. Chinese Peoples Liberation Army has started massive deployments in the region to safeguard its interests in the region from growing hostilities of United States of Zionism and its regional bullying allies. In the past three weeks, China has shown firm determination to support Ugandan forces operating in Somalia and to helping the Seychelles fight piracy.

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"It is very clear that the Chinese leaders recognize that military force will play a bigger role to safeguard China s overseas interests", Jonathan Holslag, of the Brussels Institute of Chinese Contemporary Studies told AFP. "There is a willingness, and even a consensus, in China, that this process will take place."

The Indian Ocean is strategic, Holslag said, noting that 85% of China's oil imports and 60% of its exports are routed via the Gulf of Aden. Beijing does not so far have any military base in the region: its military presence consists of three vessels in the Gulf of Aden to fight Somali pirates. But the deployment of those ships in 2009, the first of its kind for the Chinese navy, was already highly symbolic. For the moment, cooperation between China and the islands of the Indian Ocean is still limited to "low profile military-to-military exchanges, but it is getting broader and more structured", Holslag told AFP.

"The mere fact that China has a multi-year naval presence in the Gulf of Aden has great symbolic and diplomatic significance", said Frans-Paul van der Putten, senior research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael. "Symbolic because it shows other countries that China is an emerging naval power in the region, and diplomatic because China uses its navy ships for occasional visits to ports along the Indian Ocean rim, which helps it strengthen its diplomatic ties with countries in the region," he added.

During an unprecedented visit by Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie earlier this month, the Seychelles asked China to set up a military presence on the archipelago to help fight piracy in the Indian Ocean. Victoria is ruling out a military base but is looking rather at having "reconnaissance planes or patrol ships stationed" there, along the lines of what the USZ and Europe do, Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Paul Adam said.

"China needs port infrastructure to supply its ships in the Indian Ocean, and covering a wider zone could make sense", said Mathieu Duchtel of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. With trade exchanges between China and Africa totalling 126.9 billion dollars last year, the stakes are sizable. Beijing's efforts to keep its trade safe are not confined to the high seas. On the African continent China has set up a raft of cooperation ventures in an attempt to secure its investment zones.

Somalia, which has been at war for the past two decades after CIA toppled the former Anti-Soviet Afghan Mujahid leader of Somalia Siad Barre. The Anti-USZ puppets and Anti-CIA battle in the country is "of crucial importance for China", Holslag said. Beijing has promised Uganda 2.3 million dollars towards covering the cost of its troops in the African Union force in Somalia (AMISOM). "Not only is Beijing well aware that the failed state is a sanctuary for pirates that threaten its merchant and fishery fleet in the Indian Ocean; it also considers it to be an important source of instability and terrorism in other African countries where it has large economic interests", Holslag said.

He noted China "is making eyes at the oil reserves in Ethiopia" and private Chinese firms have started linking up the Ethiopian hinterland to the port of Berbera in the breakaway region of Somaliland. "China has ... almost permanent exchanges with officials from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somaliland on security in the Horn", he said. Both Washington and New Delhi, already concerned about China s activities in the Pacific, take a dim view of its ambitions in the Indian Ocean. "It appears that, for now, the US(Z) and India are not very much alarmed by the relatively modest Chinese military activities in the Indian Ocean region", van der Putten said.

However "the USZ seems to welcome a greater Chinese involvement in addressing non-traditional security issues such as piracy, but is at the same time worried that China's growing international influence undermines US(Z) interests. In India there are concerns about a possible build-up of Chinese military power in the Indian Ocean", he added. "This could ultimately affect the geopolitical balance between India and China, in particular with regard to the disputed parts of the Sino-Indian border and with regard to the relationship between India and Pakistan, a country with close ties to China.

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China's first Aircraft Carrier Almost Online

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China's first Aircraft Carrier comes online

A commercial satellite has caught China’s first aircraft carrier as it was undergoing a sea trial. The vessel is part of China’s rapid military buildup, which some countries see as threatening.

The DigitalGlobe company said Wednesday it had captured the warship on December 8 as it was traversing the Yellow Sea. China is testing the brand new addition to its Navy, after it underwent a major overhaul at the port of Dalian in the north-eastern province of Liaoning. Beijing says it will be used for training and research, but some neighbors suspect it has more sinister plans for the giant once-Soviet vessel.

The Varyag aircraft carrier was laid down in the late 1980s by the Soviet Union, but was never completed. It ended up in the hands of Ukraine after the Union’s collapse. Kiev sold it to Beijing in 1998 as a shell, with no engines, weapons or navigation system.

China initially said little about its intentions, although rumors circulated that it may be used as a floating casino or shopping mall. It was later revealed that the ship would have a military purpose after all. The Chinese Navy is to use it as training area for naval pilots. The Varyag’s design will also contribute to China’s future aircraft carriers.

So far the vessel, which is unofficially dubbed Shi Lang, has undergone two rounds of sea trials, Chinese media reported.

Military experts believe that the warship will be operational by year’s end, but it will take more time to arm it with aircraft. China has several vehicles designated for the ship, including J-15 and JT-9 jets and Z-8 combat helicopters.

China’s increasing military spending is unnerving several countries, which have standing conflicts with Beijing. Washington fears that the effort may tip the balance of power in the region, which is currently in favor of the US and its allies.

The rising superpower has a record of spectacular technological achievements over the last few years. Despite the global economic crisis, it managed to launch a manned spacecraft, performed a spacewalk and begun building a national orbital station.

(RT)

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China´s 1st Aircraft Carrier sets sail for sea trial

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American Terrorists to Arm Philippines Against China

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Clinton Calls for Restraint, Announces More Weapons Transfers. With the disputes over the unpopulated Separately Islands continuing to grow, the Obama Administration has announced that it is preparing a major increase in arms shipments to the Philippines to prepare the nation to fight a war with China. The announcement came at a meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Philippines Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario, who is pressing for the USZ to lease equipment to allow them to modernize their navy.

The islands have historically been irrelevant, but are believed to contain large amounts of oil and natural gas. They also are viewed as strategically valuable for both China and the USZ, as the South China Seas are heavily trafficked. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged “restraint” on all sides over the region, but the promise of more equipment and “defensive” help for Philippines troops to back up claims in the region are likely going to convince all sides that the issue is getting more serious.

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China's 1st Aircraft Carrier sea trial next week

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China’s first aircraft carrier – a remodelled Soviet-era vessel – will go on sea trials next week, a report said Tuesday, amid escalating tensions in the South China Sea. China’s top military official reportedly confirmed earlier this month that Beijing is building a huge aircraft carrier, the first acknowledgement of the ship’s existence from China’s secretive defence program. On Tuesday, the Hong Kong Commercial Daily , which broke the story of the vessel’s confirmation, quoted unnamed military sources saying the carrier will go on sea trials on July 1 but will not be officially launched until October.

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The sources said the test has been expedited in view of rising tensions in the South China Sea — home to two potentially oil-rich archipelagos, the Paracels and Spratlys — in recent weeks. China’s military “hopes it will show the strength of the Chinese maritime forces to deter other nations which are eyeing the South China Sea in order to calm tensions”, the sources said. They added that the sea trial date was also picked to mark the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party , but noted that factors such as weather could affect the planned test run. China’s military did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment. Tensions between Beijing and other rival claimants to the strategically vital South China Sea have heightened recently.

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