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As for the the Chinese carriers, I would not be surprised if they came up with a smaller carrier, conventional powered each with 30 aircraft and start selling them to anyone that want one for US$1B, fully equipped with aircraft and training. Great for power projection closer to home. And no...

Of course China is an emerging super power. During the last Presidential election what everyone was talking about was China, China, China, no one mentioned Japan or India. Even the Americans know that China is the one they need to worry about.

I am actually impressed with Chinese laws. In Singapore, Gov will claim eminent domain and buy your house at market price and that is that. This is the case in Western countries especially if the project benefits the public - like in a public road or railway track. And why didn't anyone send...

Chinese are playing smart and using this old Soviet hulk to learn the operating dynamics of a carrier. These guys have to start from scratch and smartest thing they did was to buy this old carrier. It does not matter who copies who. What matters is to flatten the learning curve and put out a...

I suspect matter will be solved in favour of these striking PRC drivers. Chinese leaders will come to defence of their nationals. After all they just finished an election and this news is being propagated over there. At issue is why is there the diff between Malaysian drivers vs PRC drivers -...

PRC drivers have nothing to fear 1) Singapore Gov dare not touch them as Chinese embassy will protect them. If Singapore gives trouble them they can easily go slow on the numerous projects our GLCs have in China. Just simply delay your building approval for 9 months and for some Real Estate...

China currently cannot make an efficient and reliable jet engine. It may sound strange but there are only 4 to 5 countries in the world that have the ability to make efficient and reliable jet engines. Without turbine technology, Chinese have no way to efficiently power their ships and future...

HDB can charge more because that optional fitting can be paid with HDB loan. Over 25 to 30 years that $3K to $4K is peanuts. But it is troubling that HDB is making $ off these items.

With so much talk about FT, Singapore Sports Council should just make Fandi an offer, buy out his contract and get him to coach Singapore. How much could his contract be worth? $1M? At least we now have a Singapore son running the show and have a few year to build up the Singapore team, just...

Current carrier is merely a training platform. If there was opposition within Beijing and PLA to building of a carrier fleet before, all that is gone given dispute with Japan. They need a carrier fleet to project power. When a country the size of China, with its huge economy and lots of well...

Hopefully he has learnt and not get into 3 cornered fights. I have a feeling he will be his own self again and give opposition a bad name and become a spoiler in the next election. Perhaps that is why MM and SM agreed to the relatively low $30K.

Stealth is useless against satellites.

Re: Missiles Drones are controlled by satellites which is why the next arms race is out in space. Who can knock out the other country's satellites. Chinese are launching their own GPS system. But the countries with capability to wage such wars are few. Initlal action might be as simple as...

I thot standard is dental check up every 6 months. Like that the national health system is not even meeting its own standard!

No need for nuclear. Flight deck would be filled with aircrafts fully fuel and loaded with munitions. 1 well placed ordinance and the whole deck would blow apart in a chain reaction. It truly is a sitting duck. Like they say, in battle, point is to maim not kill. 1 man injured = 4 man needed...

Agree totally. The moment a carrier group can be spotted, it is a sitting duck. This is especially if it comes within coastal defences where the opposition can fire an almost inexhaustible volley of missiles and aircraft. And the moment the flight deck is damaged, all those jets would...

Precisely, once carrier can be tracked, that 300 mile buffer can easily be penetrated by high speed missiles. Many of these are now tracked by satellite, making them difficult to jam with traditional means. The missiles can fly in excess of Mach 3 or around 2200 mph which means that 300 mile...

In the past, US carriers had always been able to protect itself behind an electronic/radar jamming cloak. Once the carrier group is at sea your radars are jammed/twarted and basically cannot detect where the carrier is. Then a 300 to 400 security zone is created. Carrier based aircraft will...

Look around at taxis. Market was held by Toyota and Nissan. Today you see quite a bit of Hyundai running around. VW is challenging the dominance of Toyota. This is happening all through the world.

China have no choice but to ramp up. These purchase agreements are documents used later in international courts. So if Tokyo makes a claim China have to make counter claim or else it will be looked upon as agreeing that Tokyo have right to buy the islands. So look to more weather reports -...