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[marcelo l.]

http://www.smh.com.au/world/beijings-gr ... -ymrn.html

Beijing's Greek deal a wake-up call for EU

ANALYSIS

CHINA'S forceful intervention in the Greek debt crisis this week has given harassed European Union leaders a sharp reminder of the challenges posed by Beijing's relentless pursuit of global interest and influence.

A Chinese Vice-Premier, Zhang Dejiang, made shipping, tourism and telecommunications deals worth several billion euros during the second visit to Athens in four weeks by a high-ranking Beijing official. The investment package, reportedly the biggest by China in Europe, was a welcome shot in the arm for the Greek government.

But a Radio Free Europe commentator, Breffni O'Rourke, highlighted the wider significance for Europe.

''The Chinese are hard-headed realists and they recognise in Greece the ideal portal for exports to the Balkans,'' Mr O'Rourke said. ''They have decided to establish a bridgehead there at a moment when the terms are most favourable.''

By way of counterbalance, China's firmly rooted reluctance to support policies inimical to its economic prospects and geopolitical influence has also been on display. Sanctions on Iran agreed by the European Union on Thursday will not inhibit Chinese firms, already big investors in Iran, from supplanting EU businesses.

Beijing forced the United Nations Security Council to water down the latest UN sanctions against Tehran; it is pressing ahead with a deal to build two civilian nuclear reactors in Pakistan despite Western concerns about proliferation; and it has steadfastly refused to condemn North Korea for sinking a South Korean naval vessel in March.

A report published this week by the European Council on Foreign Relations says an increasingly neg-ative pattern in Chinese behaviour poses a ''huge test'' for Europe.

Its author, Francois Godement, said it was time EU leaders woke up to the scale and seriousness of the global challenge posed by Beijing and took a tougher line.

Dr Godement said European assumptions that China would adopt modern, Western-style ''values and interests'' as it developed into a modern, global power were flawed. The EU should adopt a hard-nosed, conditional and unified approach, the report concluded.

It seems increasingly clear that Europe, like the US, must prepare for a day when China seeks physically to protect its burgeoning interests with ''hard power''.

Greece may be safe for now. But it would not do to be complacent.

Melhor analise a notícia foi aqui:
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/
My Comment: The German's commit hundreds of billions to the stabilization of the Greek financial crisis .... and they get spat upon by Greeks.

The Chinese make a few small trade and financial deals worth a few billion dollars but with strings attached (More on these trade deals here).... and they are heralded as saviors.


What was seen in Athens as a potential financial lifeline was, for others, a troubling sign of a future made in China.

[kurgan]

19/06/2010 - 11h21 / Atualizada 19/06/2010 - 11h21
China anuncia flexibilização gradual do iuan

Por Michael Wei e Benjamin Kang Lim

PEQUIM (Reuters) - A China irá flexibilizar gradualmente o iuan, informou o banco central neste sábado, indicando que está pronto para acabar com 23 meses de câmbio fixo que ficou sob intensa pressão mundial.

"É desejável prosseguir adiante com a reforma no regime da taxa de câmbio RMB e aumentar a flexibilidade da taxa de câmbio RMB", afirmou Banco Popular da China, em comunicado no seu website.

O iuan também é chamado de renminbi, ou RMB.

O BC chinês descartou uma valorização de uma só vez ou maior apreciação como muitos críticos esperavam, afirmando que "não havia base para grandes flutuações ou mudanças" na taxa de câmbio.

Entretanto, ficou claro que a China pretende com seu anúncio --publicado em inglês ao mesmo tempo que em chinês-- marcar o fim da rigidez de facto da cotação do iuan em relação do dólar, que tem sido defendida como uma "política especial" para proteger a economia da crise financeira global.

Ainda é preciso esperar se o anúncio será suficiente para apaziguar os críticos, especialmente os parlamentares norte-americanos, que dizem que uma moeda chinesa subvalorizada dá uma vantagem comercial injusta.

"A economia global está se recuperando gradualmente. A recuperação e a retomada da economia chinesa se tornou mais sólida com a estabilidade econômica reforçada", disse o banco central chinês no comunicado em seu website.

http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultimas-noti ... -iuan.jhtm

[marcelo l.]

[Francoorp]

Isso se os Chinas forem com tudo o que tem na Força aérea e marinha pra cima dos Yankees... mas temos que esperar uma resposta do tio Sam, e ai vai trazer 12 NAes, com 1000 caças dentro, Subs L.A., frota de superfície inteira... mas mesmo assim creio que os Chinas ganham no convencional, se os Taliban venceram, os Chinas então dão baile!

[Bolovo]

A Guerra no Afeganistão é tudo, menos convencional. Comparação sem propósito.

[marcelo l.]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10923214

China ordena fechamento de China ordena fechamento de 2000 fábricas.

The government described the outdated smelters and other processing plants as backward. It is unclear how many jobs will be lost.

The move is part of a broader plan for a substantial cut in energy use.

China overtook the US last year as the world's biggest energy consumer, but with a bigger population it is still well behind in consumption per person.

The figures were released by International Energy Agency.

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The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a list of 2,087 steel mills, cement works and other energy-intensive factories which it says must close by 30 September.

Energy analysts have described it as a significant step toward the country's energy-efficiency goals - which include a 20% reduction in energy consumption per unit of economic output, or energy intensity, by the end of the year.

A broader five-year plan suffered a setback this year as China's economic rebound created fresh demand for steel, cement and other energy-intensive products.

China is the world's largest steel producer and a major producer of other industrial materials.

Provinces that will be hardest hit by the closures are Henan in central China and Shaanxi in the north, which are traditional centres for heavy industry.

[marcelo l.]

The recent deployment of China's first four indigenous KJ-2000 AWACS aircraft marks an important milestone in the PLA Air Force’s long march from being a ‘numbers intensive’ low technology force, to a much more modern high technology one.

More fundamentally, though, the AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) extends China's deep and broad network of air defence Command Control Communications Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (C3ISR) systems into a key airborne area. In doing so, China is now acquiring the radar and passive early warning and air defence command, control and communications it needs to counter foreign fighters and cruise missiles.

Yet despite the fact that this system employs radar technology two generations ahead of that used by the US Air Force’s E-3C AWACS—generally seen as a benchmark by the rest of the world—the deployment of China’s new aircraft elicited almost no response from Washington.

Airborne C3ISR systems such as AWACS aircraft typically operate as extensions to ground-based networks of air defence radar systems and defensive Surface to Air Missile (SAM) batteries, providing forward coverage against targets that are hidden from ground-based sensors by ‘terrain shadowing’ or the earth’s curvature. Such targets can be low-flying combat aircraft, but in an increasing number of cases are likely to be low-flying cruise missiles.

So, how important a step is this new system for China? To better understand the implications, it’s useful to look at the evolution of China's air defence capabilities more generally.

During the 1950s, the Soviets exported a range of air defence equipment to China, much of which reflected what was then state-of-the-art Soviet radar technology. But the Khrushchev-era tensions put an end to that, and over time China proceeded to reverse engineer all of these Soviet designs.

By the 1970s, China was producing clones or derivatives of most of this equipment, especially ‘acquisition’ radars designed to search for aircraft that could then be targeted by SAM batteries or interceptor aircraft. This area of military technology was so valued by the PLA that in 1969 it had initiated development of an indigenous AWACS—the KJ-1. This radar design was built into a 1950s Tupolev Tu-4 Bull aircraft which itself was a reverse engineered Boeing B-29 Superfortress. This project was repeatedly disrupted by the unstable political environment, and never produced an operational capability. Still, the efforts highlight the PLA’s long-standing interest in having credible airborne C3ISR.

By the end of the Cold War, the PLA had built up a large inventory of mostly reverse engineered Soviet air defence radars, and a good number of indigenous designs, many of which were very different from their Western and Soviet cousins. These were primarily used to support the large fleet of reverse engineered fighters that included the J-6 (MiG-19), the indigenous J-8 Finback interceptor aircraft, and a large inventory of HQ-1 and HQ-2 Guideline SAM batteries. Chinese personnel also reverse engineered and then improved on radars such as the Soviet P-12 Spoon Rest, as well as developing some unique indigenous ones such as the YJ-14 Great Wall.

During this period, the PLA air defence system would have been unable to stop either US combat aircraft or Soviet combat aircraft in high intensity conflict (and indeed would find even smaller regional air forces to be a major challenge).

But the post Cold War period saw unprecedented activity and investment in air defence equipment as well as the supporting C3 infrastructure. The full extent of this investment remains unclear, as disclosures are infrequent and often incomplete, meaning researchers must often resort to satellite imagery—or even military parade imagery—and then make a best guess about supporting capabilities based on what’s required to support a particular air defence weapon system.

While China procured large numbers of Russian long range S-300PMU/PMU1/PMU2 / SA-10/20 SAM batteries and supporting radar equipment, primary search radars used for air defence were mostly designed and built in China.

During the 1990s the PLA initiated the development of a wide range of mostly highly mobile and survivable air defence radars, some of which were built to support the national air defence network, but many of which were also developed to provide air defences for army land force manoeuvre formations.

After 2000, most of these indigenous air defence radars appeared on the global market, with exports in recent years most notably going to Latin America (radars such as the JL-3D are technologically similar to those currently used by US, EU and Russian air defences—indeed, in many instances they’re variations of foreign types, including a number of Russian ‘counter-stealth’ radars).

Meanwhile, passive detection systems are also being developed, which are intended to be able to identify and locate hostile aircraft by ‘sniffing’ their radar and radio emissions. The recently revealed CETC DWL002 emitter locating system, for example, is modelled on the potent Czech developed Tamara/Vera/Borap series, but with one important improvement—the ability to locate a target in three dimensions, something vital for targeting air defence weapons. Like the new generation air defence, this new system is highly

In addition, the land-based sensor part of the PLA air defence C3ISR network is being supplemented by fixed high speed fibre optic links that provide interconnections that are immune to electronic intelligence intercepts and radio frequency jamming. But a recent and unique addition has been the deployment of indigenous TS-504 mobile tropospheric scatter (troposcatter) communications terminals, which are modelled on US Army equipment that was the employed by US land forces during the Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom Campaigns. These troposcatter terminals appear to be being used to connect mobile radars and missile batteries to the fibre optic network, which increases their ability to survive air assaults, and without the cost penalties and electronic vulnerabilities of satellite links or microwave relays.

The airborne C3ISR segment has also seen investment, with three concurrent programmes to develop AWACS/AEW&C capabilities. Following the abortive KJ-1 effort, the PLA invested in developing a conventional system carried by the Y-8. This system was supplanted by the KJ-200, which uses electronically steered active phased array radar technology that’s two generations ahead of the mechanically steered technology used by the US.

The much larger KJ-2000 AWACS, which also uses active phased array radar, is directly modeled on Israel’s A-50I and Elta Phalcon radar. The PLA had actually negotiated the purchase of the A-50I, only to have the Clinton administration block the sale, resulting in an acrimonious war of words. As a consequence, the Chinese made a national commitment to build their own—resulting a decade later in the recently deployed milestone of the KJ-2000.

All this means that China is deploying a modern, high technology air defence system based largely on the same or more advanced basic technologies used by the US, EU and Russia in their systems.

Once fully deployed and matured, this system will be effectively impregnable to regional air forces, and largely impregnable to US naval air power, itself the victim of chronic underinvestment. Indeed, the technology being deployed in strength by the PLA is so sophisticated that only the small planned inventory of US Air Force B-2A Spirit and F-22 Raptor aircraft will be capable of confidently penetrating a post-2015 PLA air defence network.

Washington, meanwhile, has yet to appreciate the long-term strategic implications of this developing West Pacific environment.

http://the-diplomat.com/2010/08/11/chin ... e-skies/3/

[kurgan]

13/08/2010 - 10h26
Almirante chinês diz que exercícios dos EUA beiram confrontação

Por Chris Buckley

PEQUIM (Reuters) - Um alto estrategista chinês qualificou de provocadores os exercícios navais planejados pelos EUA na região, e acusou o governo Obama de estar tentando cercar a China e de adotar uma abordagem "caótica" em relação a Pequim.

"Por um lado, ele quer que a China tenha um papel nas questões regionais de segurança; por outro, está se envolvendo em cercar a China de forma cada vez mais rígida e constantemente desafiar os interesses centrais da China", escreveu o contra-almirante Yang Yi no Diário do Exército de Libertação.

O Pentágono pretende enviar um porta-aviões ao Mar Amarelo, entre a China e as Coreias, para participar de um exercício conjunto com a aliada Coreia do Sul.

Os EUA dizem que o objetivo das atividades é dissuadir a Coreia do Norte de qualquer ataque, mas o militar chinês, professor da Universidade Nacional de Defesa, disse que elas criarão "inimizade e confronto na região Ásia-Pacífico".

Segundo Yang, os atritos em torno do exercício naval refletem uma instabilidade mais ampla nas relações sino-americanas, e isso é culpa dos EUA. "Raramente houve tanta hesitação e caos na política dos EUA em relação à China", escreveu ele.

Em outro artigo, publicado no China Daily, principal jornal em inglês do país, Yang afirmou que "Washington irá inevitavelmente pagar um preço alto por sua decisão atrapalhada".

Wang Jisi, especialista em relações sino-americanas na Universidade de Pequim, escreveu numa recente análise que "os riscos de uma colisão entre as Marinhas dos dois países nos mares da costa da China está crescendo".

Mas a China dificilmente irá enfrentar diretamente os exercícios conjuntos dos EUA e Coreia do Sul, levando navios para as mesmas águas - o que poderia desencadear uma perigosa escalada nas tensões.

Mas a ira de Pequim contra o governo Obama poderá atrapalhar o avanço das relações militares, que já haviam sofrido restrições por parte da China neste ano, devido à venda de armas dos EUA para Taiwan, que a China considera uma província rebelde.

http://noticias.uol.com.br/ultimas-noti ... tacao.jhtm

[Francoorp]

E agora eles tem também a maior cidade do mundo... em construção planificada.

[marcelo l.]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ramme.html

The annual report said that the country’s military modernisation and its culture of military secrecy is raising the risk of “misunderstanding and miscalculation”.
It comes at a time of rising tensions diplomatic and military tensions between the US and China which suspended military-to-military contacts earlier this year following a US decision to sell arms to Taiwan. A US aircraft carrier visited Vietnam earlier this month in a show of force to remind China that Washington was not stepping back from its role in the Asia-Pacific region, safeguarding the flow oil imports to the economies of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
n March, Beijing announced a 7.5 per cent increase in its official military budget to about $78.6 billion (£50 billion), which remains a fraction of the $548.9bn (£351bn) that the Obama administration has requested as its core defence budget.
However a senior US defence official, outlining the report, estimated that actual military-related spending by China amounted to about $150 billion (£96 billion) in 2009.
US defence experts have raised concerns about China’s intentions in building both an aircraft-carrier capability and a new brand of 'carrier-killing’ missile that could challenge the US’s current supremacy at sea.
The Pentagon report, which analyses Chinese military activities in 2009, said the People’s Liberation Army is “acquiring large numbers of highly accurate cruise missiles” and that the successful shooting down of an old satellite in a 2007 represented a new level of ability for the Chinese military.
China has reacted strongly to what it sees as US posturing in the South China Sea after the Pentagon announced that it would deploy an aircraft carrier into the Yellow Sea as part of joint exercises with South Korea, despite Chinese objections.
“The United States appears to want to declare to the world, ’The Asia-Pacific and the oceans remain under the United States’,” the People’s Daily said in a commentary on Tuesday.
Chinese analysts say that the Pentagon continues to be stuck in a 'Cold War mode of thinking’ that exaggerates the threat posed by China for its own ends.
Despite the “unprecedented surge” in tensions recently, the potential for actual conflict remains low said Zhu Feng of Peking University’s School of International Studies.
“The Pentagon is fully aware that there’s a huge gap between the two countries’ military power. It a joke to claim that China is going to attack the American aircraft carriers,” Zhu said.

[GustavoB]

CHINA: Marinha do Povo 'atira'

Postado por A.Stewart Quarta-feira, Agosto 25, 2010
http://moraisvinna.blogspot.com/2010/08 ... atira.html

























O ministério chinês da Defesa anunciou na quinta-feira que suas forças navais realizaram vários exercícios no mar do Sul da China, uma zona estratégica, reivindicada por vários países do Sudeste Asiático.
A atividade foi supervisionada pelo general Chen Bingde, chefe do Estado-Maior do Exército de Libertação Popular, que tem 3 milhões de soldados, disse o Ministério da Defesa em seu site (www.mod.gov.cn).

A nota não revela exatamente quando as manobras ocorreram ou quantos navios e soldados participaram. Mas explica que mísseis teleguiados foram disparados e que houve simulação de ataques antiaéreos, além de interferência eletromagnética.

"Prestem muita atenção às mudanças no desenvolvimento da missão, preparem-se convenientemente para o combate", disse Chen a subordinados, segundo a nota.

A China ficou furiosa ao se sentir vítima de uma "emboscada" na semana passada num importante fórum asiático de segurança, onde reivindicações territoriais de outros países sobre o mar do Sul da China foram colocadas na pauta. Brunei, Malásia, Taiwan, Filipinas e Vietnã há anos reivindicam zonas marítimas controladas por Pequim. A área é rica em recursos energéticos e importante para a navegação.

Durante uma década e meia, Pequim conseguiu manter essa discussão fora da pauta do Fórum Regional Asean. Mas no encontro da semana passada, em Hanói, 12 dos 27 membros - inclusive alguns sem interesse direto na disputa territorial - abordaram questões marítimas.

A chancelaria chinesa acusou a secretária norte-americana de Estado, Hillary Clinton, que participava do evento, de ter promovido um ataque mal disfarçado aos interesses chineses.

A imprensa estatal da China então alertou os EUA a alterarem suas políticas para levarem em conta o papel de Pequim como um ator importante no cenário mundial, caso Washington deseje evitar atritos e instabilidade.

As relações de defesa entre EUA e China também foram abaladas por um exercício militar conjunto EUA-Coreia do Sul ocorrido nesta semana. As manobras deveriam servir de alerta à Coreia do Norte, mas ocorreram perto das águas chinesas.

Por outro lado, o crescente poderio militar chinês preocupa muitos dos seus vizinhos, inclusive Japão e Taiwan, uma ilha autônoma que Pequim considera ser uma "província rebelde" da China.

Recentemente, o Vietnã encomendou da Rússia seis submarinos da classe Kilo, o que analistas viram como parte dos esforços de Hanói para contrabalançar a crescente presença naval chinesa na região.

Fonte: O Globo (Reportagem de Ben Blanchard) - Fotos via China Defense Blog

[jadson]

daqui apouco o bicho vai pegar é capas dos eua atacar antés enquanto os chineses estão fraquinho em comparação a eles americanos é logicom!!!

[suntsé]

daqui apouco o bicho vai pegar é capas dos eua atacar antés enquanto os chineses estão fraquinho em comparação a eles americanos é logicom!!!

A CHina fraquinha em relação aos EUA? Eu não concordo com esta afirmação meu caro.

Os Chineses alem de terem muitas armas, avançaram muito no campo da guerra eletrônica, Possuem uma artilharia toda-poderosa. A Marinha deles são bem equipadas. Logo mesmo uma guerra convencional com eles seria duro....

Fora os misseis nucleares de alcance global que eles tem guardados para o caso de uma possivel "eventualidade".

Vocês ja viram a ultima parada militar Chinesa? È tanta parafernalia bélica que eu nunca tinha visto na vida!!

Enfim, se vocês quiserem ver um exercito poderoso mostrando os seus musculos, eu posto os videos aqui.

[Boss]

China deve ter a maior concentração de armadas poderosas/vizinhos do mundo. Tem Índia, Paquistão, Coréia do Norte, Rússia, e vigilância próxima dos EUA, dado que os capachos deles estão lá perto (Coréia do Sul e Japão).

É uma baita desvantagem estratégica ficar no meio de tanta gente desse naipe, na minha opinião. Por mais forte que a China seja em meios militares, eu acho que a localização dela prejudica e muito.

[prp]

A localização prejudica muito, mas é essa localização que faz com que ela invista massivamente em tecnologia bélica, que a faz bater de frente com qualquer nação do mundo de igual para igual no caso de defesa do pais.