China is not just after islands as you well know. This excerpt gives a clue as to one way China uses Unrestricted Warfare to invade by way of inundating a country with immigrants.
Kyrgyzstan is strategic in that it borders China and hosts both American and Russian bases. Putin would like to get rid of the American military base Bishkek-Manas in Kyrgyzstan but he now has bigger problems. China has placed 100,000 Chinese in Kyrgyzstan. In Russia's Far East the Chinese make about eight percent of the six million strong population. It is 480,000 people. The Russian population is gradually becoming the minority as the problem of Chinese emigration is becoming more serious for Russia. #msg-3705853
I previously posted a text regarding China's subversion of Canada. #msg-3521633
This isn't just a number game the Chinese in Canada wield great influence.
One other point, in addition to the tug-of-war over the islands, China has already said it will do what it can to ensure security on the high seas. They must already be patrolling the shipping lanes with their new undetectable subs. #msg-3404130 #msg-3530012
Should a conflict arise we will see one or more of our aircraft carriers and accompanying ships disappear. #msg-3214699
China and Iran have bought brand-new, top-of-the-line, Kilo-class diesel subs from Russia, and other nations also have been buying submarines. #msg-3333316
The ‘Onyx’ missile means that Russia or China can sink American aircraft carriers at will without ever having to escalate to nuclear warfare, which gives both countries a massive strategic advantage. #msg-3429768
Missile Defense To Tie U.S. To Iraq, Afghanistan, Caspian, Experts Warn
The president declared that "we will deploy the technologies necessary to protect our people," lauding missile defenses as he signed a $417-billion defense bill. #msg-3813073
The first thing that comes to mind is given Russia’s new design won’t Bush’s missile deployment, which is part of a $417-billion defense bill, be just another exercise to sift money from health, education and social security to dad’s weapon manufacturing pockets?
Russia has designed a "revolutionary" weapon that would make the prospective U.S. missile defense useless, Russian news agencies reported Monday, quoting a senior Defense Ministry official. - March 29, 2004, 9:14 AM EST #msg-2426132
The test of a mysterious flying vehicle that the Russian military says could lead to weapons that can penetrate missile shields has left military analysts searching through history for clues to the craft.
President Vladimir Putin said that experiments performed during this week's military maneuvers proved that Russia could soon build strategic weapons that could puncture any missile-defense system. #msg-2426132
Bush giving asylum to a Chechen terrorist linked to al-Qaeda and those that planned the Russian school hostage attack and his obvious backing of Chechen terrorists has cemented an alliance between Russia and China. There has been lingering questions over whether missile defenses will work or will ultimately undermine strategic stability with Russia and China. When the world recognized it was Bush who ultimately slaughtered those Russian children the ‘lingering’ questions became irrelevant, China has said it will stand shoulder to shoulder with Russia, Bush at this point lost the war. #msg-3967677
Bush intends to deploy missiles in Afghanistan right next to China. Let me take a wild guess, this is going to piss China off even more. Nor is Russia going to be thrilled by the deployments.
The Caspian Sea deployment is an in your-face-challenge to Turkey, a crucial ally of the United States and Israel, who is recently starting to lean toward Iran. Another opportune attack for the United States by Chechen terrorists forced Putin to cancel his trip to Turkey to the delight of the U.S.
Right before Putin was to leave for Turkey to discuss among other things the building of a Russian controlled Trans-Thracian pipeline what are believed to be secessionist Chechen rebels have seized control of a Russian school taking hostage many people _ half of them children _ and threatening to blow up the building forcing Putin to cancel his two-day state visit to Ankara much to the delight of the United States.
ANKARA, Sept. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday phoned his Turkish counterpart Ahmed Necdet Sezer, saying he had to postpone his visit to Turkey due to the hostage crisis in North Ossetia. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/02/content_1939640.htm
I realize now in addition to the Trans-Thracian pipeline the missile deployment in the region, especially the Caspian Sea, must also be on the agenda for Putin and Sezer to discuss.
-Am
Missile Defense To Tie U.S. To Iraq, Afghanistan, Caspian, Experts Warn AFP: 9/5/2004
WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (AFP) - A key component of national missile defense, whose development is receiving priority this year, is likely to strategically tie the United States to Iraq, Afghanistan and some of the authoritarian former Soviet republics, requiring permanent US military bases there, according to officials and scientists involved in the project.
The attractiveness of boost phase interceptors lies in their ability to shoot down ascending missiles, whose massive heat signature makes them easier targets, before they release their multiple warheads.
Some serious money is beginning to pour in. The development budget is projected to more than quadruple this October -- from the current 118 million dollars to 511 million, according to congressional officials.
The growth rate will be almost as impressive in subsequent years: from 1.1 billion dollars in 2006 to 2.2 billion in 2009. Flight testing, say defense officials, is slated for fiscal 2010.
But the rocket-like ascent of the program is prompting some on Capitol Hill to wonder whether efforts to counter the missile threat from Iran will push the United States into questionable strategic alliances -- and will add new rationale to the already controversial US military presence in the region.
"It's just that they are throwing huge amounts of money trying to get the technology up and running without thinking clearly about the system they are going to construct," complained Jack Reed, the ranking Democrat of the US Senate Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee.
"It raises issues of basing it in places like Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Iraq or the Caspian Sea," the Rhode Island senator told AFP. "And that introduces geopolitical considerations."
While key variables remain unknown, experts agree that if Iran, as expected, produces an intercontinental ballistic missile sometime within the next decade, the United States will not be able to counter it just from ships patrolling the Gulf.
"Discussions are underway with international partners on ways in which they may be able to cooperate," replied a defense official when asked whether the governments of Iraq, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan had already been approached.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Pentagon was focusing on "a mobile, surface-based, multi-use interceptor," whose design will be "based on mature and proven technologies."
To technical experts it means the military is setting its sights on truck-mounted devices with speeds of up to eight kilometers per second while forgoing a 10-kilometer-per-second version, which could weigh up to 80 tonnes and thus require a stationary launch pad.
But in missile defense speed is of the essence, and the choice of slower interceptors, scientists say, will have to be compensated by location.
With the boost phase lasting only about three minutes, of which at least 30 seconds will have to be spent on detecting the launch and producing a firing solution, positioning the interceptors as close to presumed Iranian launch sites as possible will be crucial, experts said.
"Two to four BPI sites would be necessary to fully defend against liquid-fuel ICBMs launched from possible Iranian locations, given commit times between 30 and 90 seconds and interceptor speeds between six and 10 kilometers a second," concluded a Congressional Budget Office report issued in July.
To ensure full coverage of Iranian territory, they will have to be deployed in either in Turkmenistan and the Gulf, eastern Iraq and western Afghanistan, or in all four locations, according to the report.
A study by the American Physical Society issued last year pointed to a floating launch platform in the Caspian Sea, or a base in Azerbaijan, as another viable solution.
The bases will hardly be small. Each of them will likely house three mobile launchers with two interceptors each, noted congressional officials.
The relative proximity of Iran would mean they will be within range of Iranian combat aircraft and missiles and will therefore require their own air defenses, including Patriot batteries.
Defensive perimeter rings will have to be set up to protect the bases against ground assault, the officials pointed out.
The Pentagon declined to comment on these issues. But a defense official underscored the importance of early-stage missile defense, pointing out that all other components of the system, including those being deployed in Alaska this year, were a "back up to the boost phase system."
Senator Reed, meanwhile, believes the Pentagon has not been straightforward with Congress about all the implications of the project.
"It's all just 'Give us a lot of money and trust us,'" he said. "And that's one of the problems, I think."
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FC has previously noted the conflicts involving Taiwan (#msg-4008259), the Malacca Strait (#msg-3530012), the Strait of Hormuz (#msg-3136614), the Bosporus Strait (#msg-3903474) and the Chinese takeover of the Panama Canal (#msg-2384357). Obviously something is up. I would, however, like to see more verification.
One Reporter's Opinion: The Power of the Seas George Putnam Friday, June 6, 2003 It is this reporter's opinion that while we are being spread militarily thin throughout the world, we are being sadly distracted from our eventual problem - Communist China.
Was it Sir Walter Raleigh who said, "Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade - whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world and consequently the world itself." And Aristotle, commenting on the importance of maritime trade, said, "It is obviously better both for insuring an abundance of necessities and for defensive reasons that the state and its territories should have access to the sea."
The Communist Chinese have followed Sir Walter and Aristotle to the letter.
In February 2003 the American Defense Council released a geopolitical and strategic assessment of China's global maritime power. The Council has identified 10 strategic global shipping choke points that make up the United States oil and trade lifelines. They note that in the last decade, China has succeeded in building, managing or operating strategic ports that are adjacent to or, as in the case of the Panama Canal, at the entrance and exit of 7 of the 10 global shipping choke points.
In 2001 China spent more than one billion dollars in port acquisition and port infrastructure construction. Most alarming is the speed and nature of the Chinese Communist Party's execution of its plan to control these critical global shipping choke points.
Let's review the 10 main shipping lanes - the key global shipping choke points. They are:
The Panama Canal
The Strait of Dover
The Strait of Gibraltar
The Suez Canal
The Strait of Hormuz
Bab el-Mandeb
Bosporus Strait of Dardanelles
The Strait of Tsushima
The Strait of Malacca
The Strait of Sunda
The Council warns us again and again of the importance of controlling these choke points - that when China's strategic interests warrant closing down key shipping lanes, they will do so. Example: The Chinese shut down the Taiwan Straits in 1996 when launching missiles into those shipping lanes.
Have we forgotten that 80% of global trade moves by sea and that the U.S. moves 95% of its foreign trade by weight via the world's oceans. It is obvious why China has moved so quickly to establish these ports around the world.
China has dramatically increased the number of its cargo ships as well as its expertise in port construction and design, including the manufacture and design of cargo cranes. The impact of Communist China's maritime expansion and control of the sea-lanes should be frighteningly obvious in the long run.
In the Cox Report issued by Congress, it stated that the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) is actually an arm of the Chinese military establishment.** [COSCO is a large conglomerate making international shipping as its core business and encompassing shipping agency, forwarding, air freight forwarding, terminals and warehousing, inland haulage, trade, industry, financial affairs, insurance, real estate, tourism, contract employment and medium-level and higher education, It is one of the 56 big Group of enterprises approved by the State.]
We, at the same time, have allowed our marine fleet to degrade to the point that we must subsidize foreigners to allow the U.S. military access to cargo ships in a time of crisis.
The American Defense Council has performed a praiseworthy task in outlining China's maritime power projection, and I believe every Senator and Congressperson should study it carefully. It may well be the outline of America's future well being.
The Chinese have an old expression: all power comes from the mouth of the cannon. Might we add that in the present-day struggle, power also comes from domination of the seas.
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