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That's a pretty nutty estimate. The GDP per capita in China is not $3,000. If anything, that much is clear.

It really is amusing. The Vikrant is a 40,000 mt vessel with a ski-jump, laid down in '09, dry dock in '11, and launched in '13.... and commissioned in '18-'20?? We are not talking nuclear-powered supercarrier with 100,000 mt ton displacement here. This should be simple stuff.

Who is 'we'? I'm not telling anyone to embrace any particular political system. Lord knows India's political system has not helped it catch-up with China, yet China's political system itself has not helped it catch up with the West. The PRC achieved independence in 1949; Taiwan's de facto...

China won't catch up with anyone in the developed world in it's current political form. There is a reason that not a single one of the "advanced" nations on this Earth are single party states.

From the looks of things, India's playing catch up to China. What strikes me the most about India's current outburst of diplomacy is that they are promising things they themselves can hardly provide for their domestic market. Military procurement is a joke in India and for them to promise all...

China has probably reached where we were in the 1970's. To be honest, that's probably better than anyone else in the world, with the exception of Russia and the USA. How hard are they trying though? China has largely been taking things "slowly", something they consider to be beneficial to their...

They wanted to acquire the F-22's from us, but Congress refused. This resulted in Japan beginning their own stealth fighter program. The ATD-X demonstrator should be flying in 2014-2015, but don't expect it to resemble the full production type, which *should* start production in 2027, as the...