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"Xinhua later reported that the collapse was caused by excessive subsidence of the tracks into the ground supporting them, quoting maintenance workers. A total of 7.2 km of track was affected, they said. "Last year, we reinforced part of the track, and this time we are pinning up the whole...

A more balanced view: Ancient Chinese maps record the "Thousand Li Stretch of Sands"; Qianli Changsha (千里長沙) and the "Ten-Thousand Li of Stone Pools"; Wanli Shitang (萬里石塘),[6] which China today claims refers to the Spratly Islands. The...

Vietnam claims almost as much as China on south china sea. You are making it sounds as if the whole ASEAN is against china when infact they have their own interest are are competing against each other. But none of them dares to openly compete with China which is why they have to go to U. Sam...

The topic is Xinjiang. Lets not turn this into a Turkey vs China thread.

Fastest way to dismount from a truck.

Working in the gulf.

Actually the general said the plane won't be ready this year (2012). He didn't say anything about next year.

Wonder if they will have a chain feed automatic version? The older grenade launcher that has been exported:

Boundary of Han dynasty varies depends on the years you are looking at. But the present day xinjiang region was under Han control at one time and safety of travellers on China part of the silk rout guaranteed. By Tang dynasty, xinjiang was under control, and China were able to went as far as to...

I wasn't the first one off topic, nor the last one. But whatever makes you feel good, meh. Please...it's off topic :lol:

Obama wants to reorient his armed forces towards east asia, but Netanyahu might just make life hard for him if US gets drawn into Iran conflict.

We had a dynasty that was already starting to rot from the inside. Transition away from dynastic rule was needed.

The ancient Turkic people are more like a confederation of nomadic tribes, They tend to migrate around asia and where ever they settled over time they become close in appearance to local populations since they tend to be the minority. Thus turkic people in eastward asia took on oriental features...

Speculation on future Chinese vessels Not sure how credible this is. Below is the likely changes to the PLAN major surface combatant ship fleet: includes destroyers and frigates, ACs/flattops and ships like the type 071 are not counted, Ships like the 065 corvette are also not counted. Also...

It was PS'd off from the original photo.

This example actually exposes the danger of un-thoughful military campaign. If Sui had launched 10 smaller set-piece attacks on Goguryeo of 100,000 men each, with clearly defined objectives and territory acquisition, she will have much more success than gambling a 1 million men mass campaign...

Please take the time to check out the chinese branch of the WDN at www.chinesedefence.com thanks!

Think these are final checks for new planes entering service.

10 at a glance.

Those are called dual-purpose guns and they can work on AA mission. I don't think railgun is intended for AA role though unless the firing rates improves and they find some way of allowing the warhead survive the firing process.