Pentagon White House Congress frightful shitless after Russian Sino Naval Dril

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Bankrupt USA can never catch up with the military advancment game any further. Chinese and Russian signed an enormous economic and military cooperation pack. Together they will become stronger than USA in great pace. Military capabilities and deep filled pockets as well. Ang Moh eating shit in fear.

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Chinese military spending exceeds $145 billion, drones advanced - U.S.

By Phil Stewart

WASHINGTON Thu Jun 5, 2014 11:53pm BST
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Soldiers from the honour guards of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) march in front of the Monument to the People's Heroes at Tiananmen Square, after the welcoming ceremony for Kuwait's Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, June 3, 2014.

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(Reuters) - Chinese military spending exceeded $145 billion (86.25 billion pounds) last year as it advanced a program modernizing an arsenal of drones, warships, jets, missiles and cyber weapons, the Pentagon said on Thursday, offering a far higher figure than Beijing's official tally.

The Pentagon's estimate, using 2013 prices and exchange rates, was 21 percent above the $119.5 billion figure announced by China. It was detailed in an annual report to Congress that cited steady progress in Chinese defence capabilities.

It acknowledged that estimating Chinese spending can be difficult, in part because of "poor accounting transparency and incomplete transition from a command economy."

The report came just days after Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, using unusually strong language, accused Beijing of destabilising the region in pursuit of territorial claims.

China claims almost the entire oil- and gas-rich South China Sea and dismisses competing claims from Taiwan, Brunei, Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia. Japan also has a territorial dispute with China over islands in the East China Sea.

The 96-page report said China was placing emphasis on preparing for potential contingencies in the South and East China Seas, noting an October drill named Maneuver 5 in the Philippine Sea.

The drill, the Pentagon said, was the largest Chinese Navy open-ocean exercise seen to date.

"China's military investments provide it with a growing ability to project power at increasingly longer ranges," the report said.

The United States last month charged five Chinese military officers and accused them of hacking into American nuclear, metal and solar companies to steal trade secrets, ratcheting up tensions between the two world powers over cyber espionage.

The Pentagon report renewed warnings over cyber intrusions.

"China is using its ... capability to support intelligence collection against the U.S. diplomatic, economic, and defence industrial base sectors that support U.S. national defence program," it said.

The Pentagon also cited advances in Chinese drone technology. It pointed to a Defence Science Board report cautioning Beijing's push "combines unlimited resources with technological awareness that might allow China to match or even outpace U.S. spending on unmanned systems in the future."

It noted that in September 2013, a "probable" Chinese drone was noted for the first time conducting reconnaissance over the East China Sea. China also unveiled details of four drones under development in 2013, including the Ligian, China's first stealth drone, it said.

(Reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by David Storey and Grant McCool)

 

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Frightful Ang Moh Cows dodged Putin and discuss how to deal with the big strong Polar Bear.

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Left out of G7 summit, Putin wishes world leaders "bon appetit"

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(Reuters) - Vladimir Putin, shut out of a G7 summit over Russia's role in Ukraine, parried the snub on Thursday with a terse message for world leaders who lunched without him in Brussels on Thursday: "Bon appetit".

Putin should have been hosting the heads of leading industrialized nations at a summit of the G8 in the Black Sea resort of Sochi this week.

But the G7 nations scotched those plans in protest against Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region in March, and the leaders of the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan held their summit without him.

Asked how he felt about this, Putin barely broke stride to spit out an answer to Kremlin reporters who had been advised to await him at the bottom of a sweeping staircase at the Russian Geographical Society after a meeting on Arctic policy.

"I would like to wish them bon appetit," he said, using the Russian equivalent of the phrase, and then walked away swiftly.

Russia joined the G7 in 1997, making it the G8 and marking a milestone in Moscow's rapprochement with the West after the collapse of communism and breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

But the crisis in Ukraine has driven Russia's relations with the United States and European Union to a post-Cold War low. Western nations have imposed visa bans and asset freezes on officials, lawmakers and companies close to Putin.

At the G7 summit, which was ending on Thursday, the leaders threatened to impose harder-hitting sanctions on Russia if it did not help restore stability to eastern Ukraine, where Western nations accuse Moscow of supporting separatists.

Putin's isolation from the West is only partial. From St Petersburg he was flying to France, where he was to have supper with President Francois Hollande later on Thursday before taking part in D-Day 70th anniversary commemorations on Friday.

Putin was also expected to hold separate meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron while in France, but no meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama was scheduled.

(Reporting by Alexei Anishchuk; Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

 

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‘Bon appétit,’ Putin tells G7 leaders dishing the dirt on Russia in Brussels
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President Putin wished “bon appétit” to G7 leaders who patronized Russia – excluded from the club over Ukraine – and set conditions it has to meet to restore ties with the West. Otherwise, Obama and his allies threatened, more sanctions would follow.

On Thursday, as the G7 summit was wrapping up in Brussels, Vladimir Putin was asked to comment on what he thinks about the western leaders holding their gathering without Russia. The only comment that followed was: “I want to wish them, ‘Bon appétit.’”

This week’s summit of the world's leading industrialized nations became the first in 17 years when Russia was not participating. That comes as the US “mobilized the international community,” as President Barack Obama earlier put it, “to isolate Russia” over the Ukraine crisis.

Originally, the summit was to take place in Russia’s Sochi, but the plan was canceled after Crimea reunited with Russia – a move that infuriated the West, labeling it an “illegal annexation” of territory.

Despite being uninvited, Moscow got its fair share of judgments and accusations thrown at it during the gathering. The G7 leaders wagged their fingers at Russia, warning that more sanctions would follow unless it helps to deescalate the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

In their joint declaration, the western leaders said they are united in condemning Russia’s “continuing violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.”

Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron said that all the seven leaders agreed to impose tougher economic sanctions against Russia unless it meets new requirements within a month.

US President Barack Obama (R) and British Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands during a joint press conference during the G7 Summit at the European Council in Brussels, on June 5, 2014. (AFP Photo / Saul Loeb)

US President Barack Obama (R) and British Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands during a joint press conference during the G7 Summit at the European Council in Brussels, on June 5, 2014. (AFP Photo / Saul Loeb)

“First, the status quo is unacceptable. The continuing destabilization of eastern Ukraine must stop,” Cameron told a news conference at the end of the summit.

Second, he went on, Putin must recognize the May 25 election of Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, as legitimate.

“He must stop arms crossing the border into Ukraine. He must cease Russian support for separatist groups,” Cameron stated, providing, however, no evidence for the accusations.

The British premier said he would urge Putin to take such steps during their meeting in France later on Thursday evening.

Obama used a similar mentor tone in his speech, saying that if the Russian president does fulfill the conditions set, “then it is possible for us to begin to rebuild trust between Russia and its neighbors and Europe.”

“We will have a chance to see what Mr. Putin does over the next two, three, four weeks, and if he remains on the current course, then we've already indicated the kinds of actions that we're prepared to take,” the American leader warned.

The fact that Putin did not immediately denounce the outcome of the Ukrainian presidential vote “perhaps offers the prospect he’s moving in a new direction.” But Obama added: “We have to see what he does and not what he says.”

Now that the Moscow-Washington “reset” has failed completely, the US – echoed by its European allies – has repeatedly blamed Russia for its alleged military involvement in the Ukrainian crisis. So far, no proof has been provided. Apparently, western leaders believe that if something is said frequently enough, like a mantra, people will start to believe it no matter whether it is true or not.

“What about proof? Why don’t they show it?” Putin told French media ahead of his trip to Normandy for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

“The entire world remembers the US Secretary of State demonstrating the evidence of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, waving around some test tube with washing powder in the UN Security Council. Eventually, the US troops invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein was hanged and later it turned out there had never been any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. You know, it’s one thing to say things and another to actually have evidence,” the Russian president noted.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) listens to French journalist Gilles Bouleau (L) and Jean-Pierre Elkabbach during an interview with French media TF1 and Europe 1, in Sochi on June 4, 2014 (AFP Photo / RIA Novosti / Alexei Nikolsky)

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) listens to French journalist Gilles Bouleau (L) and Jean-Pierre Elkabbach during an interview with French media TF1 and Europe 1, in Sochi on June 4, 2014 (AFP Photo / RIA Novosti / Alexei Nikolsky)

The G7 summit was held just ahead of the 70th anniversary of the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy, on June 6, 1944. Putin along with the leaders of France, Britain, the US and Germany flew to France to attend the events to mark the anniversary of the opening of the western front against Adolf Hitler's troops.

The British and American leaders’ duet on the historic event would bewilder many Russians, as the successor of the Soviet Union, Russia, was not even mentioned as a contributor to the defeat of the Nazi. That is while the USSR lost over 25 million lives fighting the Nazi Germany in the WWII.

“Whenever our two nations stand together, it can leave a world that is more secure and more prosperous and more just, and we will be reminded of that again tomorrow in Normandy,” Obama said.

“On that day, like so many others, American and British troops stood together and fought valiantly alongside our allies. They didn't just help to win the war, they helped to turn the tide of human history and are the reason that we can stand here today in a free Europe and with the freedoms that our nations enjoy,” the US President said.

Cameron added that their countries “stood like two rocks of freedom and democracy in the face of Nazi tyranny”. He said that “thousands of young British and American soldiers, with their Canadian and Free French counterparts, were preparing to cross the Channel in the greatest liberation force that the world has ever known”.

 

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Polar Bear is going to eat the G7

 

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US warns on China air force modernisation
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China is modernising its air force on an “unprecedented” scale and is “rapidly closing the gap with Western air forces”, the Pentagon said on Thursday in its annual report on the capabilities of the Chinese military.





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India's defence budget is one-third of China: Pentagon
Jun 6, 2014, 09.36AM IST*PTI

The official annual defence budget of China in the year 2013 was $119.5 billion against India's $39.2 billion.
WASHINGTON: India's annual defence budget is just one-third of that of China despite the tensions that remain along their shared border, according to a Pentagon report.

The official annual defence budget of China in the year 2013 was $119.5 billion against India's $39.2 billion, the Pentagon said on Thursday in its annual report on China, which was submitted to the Congress.

For comparison, the national defence budget of Russia in the year 2013 was $69.5 followed by that of Japan — $56.9 billion.

The annual budget of South Korea was $31 billion, the Pentagon said adding that tensions remain along the India-China border.

"Despite improving political and economic relations between China and India, tensions remain along their shared 4,057-km border, most notably over Arunachal Pradesh, which China asserts is part of Tibet, and over the Aksai Chin region at the western end of the Tibetan Plateau," the Pentagon said.

"In 2009, China and India said they would establish a hotline between their prime ministers after exchanging barbs over the status of the border region of Arunachal Pradesh," said the report titled "Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China 2014", that runs into over 90 pages.

"By 2011, however, progress still lagged as India reportedly found trouble obtaining suitable encryption technology to establish the hotline. Chinese and Indian officials met in late September 2013 to finalize the text of the Border Defence Cooperation Agreement, which will supplement existing procedures managing the interaction of troops along the Line of Actual Control," the Pentagon said.





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Pentagon Lays Out Challenge Posed by China's Growing Military Might
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By DION NISSENBAUM CONNECT
Updated June 6, 2014 12:12 a.m. ET
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WASHINGTON—China's rapidly growing military spending is paving the way for the country to expand its sphere of influence and challenge the U.S. across the globe, the Pentagon said, in a report laying out challenges facing America as it steps up involvement in Asia.

While U.S. military spending is in decline, China is spending billions of dollars to develop stealth fighters, cyberweaponry, armed drones and a growing naval fleet that has repeatedly squared off with its Asian neighbors, according to the Defense Department's annual report to Congress.

Release of the report comes days after top Chinese and U.S. military officials clashed at an Asian security forum in Singapore. During the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit, a top Chinese official warned that U.S. actions in Asia were threatening to transform China into an adversary. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel accused China of taking "destabilizing, unilateral actions" against its neighbors in the region.

The tensions have clouded efforts by political leaders to create stronger ties as Washington increases its military and political involvement in Asia.

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China spent more than $145 billion on military programs in 2013, the Pentagon estimated, part of a two-decade-long increase in the country's military spending. China's official budget has grown by an average of 9.4% each year since 2004, the report said. U.S. military spending is facing a constrained future as the military prepares to bring 13 years of ground wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to an end.

"China's military investments provide it with a growing ability to project power at increasingly longer range," the report said.

The U.S. spent about $580 billion in 2013 on defense.

According to the World Bank, the U.S. spends about 4.2% of its gross domestic product on military spending, compared with about 2% in China.

While U.S. military spending is retracting, the country still spends far more than any other nation, including China, on defense.

President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have been working to improve relations between the two countries as they jostle for influence across Asia. The efforts have been hampered by China's territorial confrontations with its neighbors, including its declaration late last year of a new air-defense identification zone over parts of the East China Sea.

The Pentagon said the Chinese air force is aggressively modernizing "on a scale unprecedented in its history and is rapidly closing the gap with Western air forces across a broad spectrum of capabilities."

China is trying to develop a stealth jet fighter, but the report said the country "faces numerous challenges" in the program, which it isn't expected to overcome for at least five years.

Earlier this year, China allowed Mr. Hagel to be the first foreign visitor to tour its first aircraft carrier, a small sign of openness between the two countries.

The report also warns that China continues to use cyberwarfare to target the U.S. in an effort to increase its advantages over America. Cyber is a critical element of China's military strategy and is becoming an increasingly tense battlefield for the new nations.

China's Ministry of National Defense said it is assessing the latest report but that in past years the Pentagon has used the report to "make wild accusations" and spread the notion of a Chinese military threat. "This is extremely mistaken. We express our resolute opposition to it," the ministry said in a brief statement.

Last month, the Justice Department launched a new legal offensive against China by charging five of its military officers with hacking into U.S. companies to steal trade secrets.

China is also "capable of increasingly sophisticated military action against Taiwan," which remains a main driver of the country's military spending, the report states.

Write to Dion Nissenbaum at [email protected]

 

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China claims almost the entire oil- and gas-rich South China Sea and dismisses competing claims from Taiwan, Brunei, Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia. Japan also has a territorial dispute with China over islands in the East China Sea.

hahaha.....it is surprising Taiwan is mentioned...
I don't think so china viewed Taiwan as a sovereign nation???

china is also sleeping....apparently they are not aware that Taiwan possesses nuclear weapon and have not kpkb about it....