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Why the Chinese Cyber Threat is a Bunch of Baloney | Antiwar.com Blog This article doesn't even mention Stuxnet and Flame. These are viruses that the US and Israel used against Iran to sabotage industrial installations in this case nuclear ones. The world's first and so far only offensive cyber...

The 200% figure for China include all of the debts combined that is personal, corporate and government debts, the 230% for Japan is only the government debt. Total Japanese debt is more than 600% of GDP and for America its more than 370% of GDP excluding the unfunded liabilities (122 trillion $).

China and Russia settled all their border disputes in the 1990's.

I have heard that 596 Huizhou has already been commissioned into the Hongkong garrison a few days ago. Have you heard anything about that ? If that's true then that would make this the second Type 056 corvette being commisioned.

The Indian's colonial/imperial appetite is on full display on PDF. Wasn't there another thread that said that the Maledives should also be a part of India ?

Pakistan has a independent foreign policy and has every right to meet the Japanese admiral.

When was this ship commissioned ? It couldn't be today a sunday.

Its not so much that there is no evidence against American cyber espionage and hacking activities but the media in the US doesn't really focus on it and ask hard questions about the national security state in America or corruption and fraude on Wall Street. And instead they focus on problems in...

China generally speaking has a better educated population than India and that has in part helped China to build a industrial base and expand her infrastructure. Also a bigger participation by women in the economy is another factor. P.S. Asia Times is not a Chinese publication and if you go to...

Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan Having a large and young population could potentially be a huge economic advantage but a young and growing population with very little formal skills can be a huge burden as well. It seems that the latter is...

Its funny how so many members on PDF and other defence forums claims to be engineers, doctors, PH.D's, MBA's and scientists, with such acadamic acumen you would expect far more intelligent conversations to take place here. Ingnorence is a bliss here on all sides.

Actually the FED is printing something like 85 billion dollars a month to support both the mortgage markets and the treasury bond markets. The FED has already increased its balance sheet to 3 trillion dollars from just a few hundred billion dollars before the crisis hit in 2007. And the FED is...

You misunderstand my post. It has nothing to do with owning homes. It's all about American monetary and fiscal policies that's eroding the value of the currency and perpetuate the imbalances in the economy. Inorder to keep interest rate at that level the central bank has to expand the monetary...

The problem with India is that it has developed its services economy much faster than its manufacturing economy. The result is that the growing afluence of the Indians increase the demands for goods and services. That when India doesn't have the capability to manufacture a lot of these goods...

It's not a issue of if, if, if but its either the one or the other. Ultra high interest rates or hyperinflation. P.S. i hope you're pension plans are not tied into the stock or bond markets or you will be unable to retire as well.

Well, Gambit it seems you have been doing quite well for you're self. However i hope that you don't have a heavy mortgage on that property of yours. Because the way the things are going now in the US is that either Ben Bernanke is going to have to raise interest rate very severely to counter the...

China's Increasingly Good Mock Air Battles Prep Pilots for Real War | Danger Room | Wired.com

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Well, despite of that China is still doing much better than India. What does that tell you about India ? ;)

Why can't Eric Schmidt make the same criticism about his own country ? It is funny how people always compare China with Japan but fail to see the similarities between Japan and the US ? Japan in the 1980's had a housing bubble but when that bubble popped the Japanese instead of breaking the...