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Chinese Maritime Surveillance (CMS) to commission 36 new cutters from 2010 to 2012 including seven 1500 ton class, fifteen 1000 ton class and fourteen 600 ton class "to better protect China's maritime interests". Not sure what is the urgency but it sure helps to have a strong domestic...

Lejeune Marines host People's Republic of China Minister of National Defense Minister Chinese General not too impressed with the tracked IFV, but quite impressed with marine SAW, and also the V-22.

We should all get back to topic, why does there always have to be size contests?

Awesome pics above, view them in a separate tab to see more details The red thing looks like air flow sensor/pitot tube covers. There seems to be two of them, but I think the front one will be removed for production variant.

Does it have open-able weapon bays?

The suspension of tours to the Philippines is more for the safety of Chinese people. Not that I think many people will be going under the current climate anyway.

A merry couple:

It's the same emperior that commenced the greatest Chinese encyclopedia in history. Yongle Encyclopedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In a way I think Philippines have no choice. The ruling government in P has to do a balancing act. We all know what happens to countries when they don't listen to a great power. (regime change) This is the sad reality of small powers. In a way P cannot afford to listen to China now. You see US...

Some pics of the oil rig:

Picture of the ships involved, 1 LPD, 2 destroyers and 2 frigates.

Because those police were from local governments. The central government, which is kind of equivalent to the Federal govt in the US, does not and cannot oversee every little things done on the local scale. But now I think the central govt is looking into it. Chen has been doing his activies for...

No, it's not a joke to have your own independent national policy and military.

Human rights is only suitable when talking about within a nation by its own people. Between nations it has always been jungle law. Politics is the same everywhere and it'll be naive to believe any particular country is an exception.

168, 169, 568, 569 & 998 spotted at the following location: PS don't make this into a troll thread. It's a normal exercise by the PLAN. Their ship needs more experience.

In other words it is in the interest of the rest of the world somehow for Vietnam to drill for oil in those areas, but not for China (?)

The old type 96 looks very similar to 85, most differences are probably internal. Newer modified 96 have added armour blocks and other improvements. 96 was not meant to go against western MBT, that is the job of 99. 96 had something like T-72 in mind.

^^^ He did said 'one of the' rather than 'the'.

40-80 litres a day should not be too much problem if you hook it up to a powerful enough powersource. What would be interesting would be how many litres of water one litre of oil can make.

The air dehumidifier can already do just that. The smallish one in my house collects the water in a plastic bin, must have been litres over the course of the day.