2012-02-22 (China Military News cited from taipeitimes.com and by J. Michael Cole) -- After more than a decade of delays and reversals, the navy has confirmed that it will embark on a domestic submarine program next year, with a prototype to be delivered within three to four years.
Taiwanese and US sources ... READ MORE

2012-02-22 (China Military News cited from thehindu.com and by Ananth Krishnan) -- China should learn from India by encouraging religious beliefs and promoting democratic values, a retired official of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has said in a commentary that has stirred debate in Chinese cyberspace.
China also needed to follow India's ... READ MORE

2012-02-22 (China Military News cited from defpro.com and by Joseph A. Bosco) -- In public remarks during his Washington visit, neither Vice President Xi Jinping nor his US interlocutors directly addressed the diplomatic malady that afflicts both governments — call it acute containment confusion syndrome.
Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for ... READ MORE

2012-02-22 (China Military News cited from nytimes.com and by MARTIN FACKLER) -- The Chinese city of Nanjing has suspended its sister-city relationship with Nagoya in Japan after the Japanese city’s mayor expressed doubts that the Japanese army’s 1937 Nanjing Massacre actually took place, the Nagoya city hall said Wednesday.
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2012-02-22 (China Military News cited from rediff.com ) -- Smiling tiger – may look friendly but is very dangerous." That is how an US Senate Committee Chairman, Senator Fred Thompson said about China Resource Enterprise (CRE). In its investigation into China's attempts to influence the 1996 US presidential campaign, the ... READ MORE

2012-02-22 (China Military News cited from tempointeractive.com) -- Merpati Nusantara Airlines plans to buy 40 units of Comac ARJ21-700 from China. Merpati has required that 40 percent of the airplanes� components be produced by PT Dirgantara Indonesia.
Merpati CEO, Johny Sardjono Tjitrokusumo, said the purchase was a collaboration with Chinese factory ... READ MORE

2012-02-22 (China Military News cited from Reuters and by Tulay Karadeniz) -- Activists from China's Muslim Uighur minority burnt Chinese flags in Ankara on Tuesday where China's leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping was holding talks with Turkish officials on regional issues.
About 60 Turkic-speaking Uighurs from China's northwestern Xinjiang province protested outside the hotel ... READ MORE

2012-02-22 (China Military News cited from PLA Daily) -- On February 20, 2012, the reporters learned from the publicity and implementation meeting organized by the Research, Development and Procurement Department for the Army Armaments of the General Armaments Department (GAD) of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) that with the issuing ... READ MORE