19.09.2004, 18:14
schön etwas älter, aber immer noch aktuell:
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Zitat:Ostensible reasons for consternation over the 'buildup' of Chinese naval carriersund dazu
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The acquisition of foreign carriers has been in the news throughout the years.
In 1985, China bought the 15,000-ton HMAS Melbourne from Australia for scrap, with which the Chinese reportedly used its steam-catapult-equipped flight deck for flight training in a Dongbei naval center.
Seven years later the PLAN showed interest in buying the 65,000-tonne carrier Varyag from Ukraine, which the new nation had inherited in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's political disintegration. The ship eventually ended up in a naval yard in the northern port of Dalian two years ago after fetching a price three times its value as scrap at 20M USD.
That's why for some reason I tend to believe that all this talk of Chinese shipbuilding activities in recent weeks is used to justify the sale of weapons to Taiwan like the sale of the long-range radar system proposed by the Pentagon.
The best defense is always offense - even in a propaganda war about a multi-billion-dollar long-range radar system, the sale of which by the Pentagon to Taiwan has invited ferocious indignation from the entire Chinese nation.
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Zitat:Latest from Dalian Shipyard: China is working on Varyag aircraft carrier