July 14, 2010

China exercise with fast attack boats may have simulated attack on carrier group

China's military exercises in the East China Sea between June 30 and July 5 showcased Beijing's Type 022 Houbei fast attack missile catamaran that naval specialists say is designed to sink U.S. warships and possibly aircraft carriers in a future conflict. Naval warfare specialists said the exercises appeared designed to simulate a conflict involving aircraft carrier strike groups. (FULL STORY)
China's Type 022 Houbei fast attack craft.
Beijing lures Taiwan into its political web, concluding trade deal too good to refuse
On the surface, the just-concluded Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between China and Taiwan seems an unequal treaty: Taiwan will enjoy $13.8 billion worth of tariff reductions on China-bound goods, while mainland China will only reap tax benefits totaling about $2.9 billion. Yet from the point of view of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership, ECFA is a milestone in Beijing's decades-long effort to secure the return of the "breakaway province" to the motherland's womb.  (FULL STORY)
Hu Jintao (R), General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, meets with Kuomintang (KMT) Party honorary chairman Wu Poh-hsiung in Beijing, July 12, 2010.   Xinhua/Lan Hongguang
Commander of the U.S. forces in Korea warns of more provocations, 'asymetric threats'
Under pressure from China, Russia, UN collapses in response to N. Korean attack
   
Beijing blasts U.S. deployment of subs as effort to encircle China
Chinese piracy of software for its computer users called rampant
China targeting democracy, promoting its authoritarian system
India restricts China's Huawei Technologies — a rumored intelligence front

  INSIDE  NORTH  KOREA     
N. Korean children learning that 'rain stopped falling when Jong-Un Kim' appeared

The campaign to transfer the personality cult of his father and grandfather to North Korea's heir-apparent Kim Jong-Un has been in full swing nationwide since May last year.
China military cracks down on its Internet sites, a valuable U.S. intel resource
South Korea boosts defense budget to counter unconventional threats from N. Korea
Second dubious spy case in China having a chilling effect on U.S. business community

 
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