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You forget the fee China need to pay for the varyag park at black sea for 2 years since it has not given permission to cross the strait. The ship end up cost at least USD 150million plus expensive tow fee. It's is not that reasonable cost in the end. USD 150million during 1998 are a lot of money.Actually the Varyag jump start China's aircraft carrier program.
For about 25million the Varyag was a gift that fell from heaven for China.
The casino ruse and Ukrainians saying that the engines were destroyed was to fool the US. In fact all the 4 engines were sealed in grease.
Note that each engine alone costs 20 million. The deal also includes the blueprints which filled several trucks and took China about 2 years to computerized.
You could make a movie how China got the Varyag......calling it.
"Under the nose of a superpower"
From Varyag To Liaoning CV-16: The Untold Saga Of A 16-Year Journey
From Varyag To Liaoning CV-16: The Untold Saga Of A 16-Year Journey
It was in late April 1970 that the PLA Navy (PLAN) had formed a team led by Admiral Liu Huaqing (who later became the PLAN Chief from 1982 till 1988 and was also a CMC member from 1988 to 1997) to explore ways of acquiring aircraft carriers. The Admiral later proposed that China build its own...defence.pk
Turkey did not allow the use of the straits for the passage from the Black Sea to the Aegean, citing the Montreux Convention, as the ship was both an aircraft carrier/warship and had no engine and rudder.
The General Staff and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the opinion that the ship should be allowed to pass in order to develop relations with China, and worked on the legal infrastructure.
The biggest concern in the Turkish public was an accident possibility, such an incident could halt traffic in the strait for months. China managed to overcome this problem by giving a letter of guarantee of 1 Billion USD against the possibility of any accident.
At the same time, it was announced that the ship would not be used for military purposes, so as not to violate the Montreux convention; Also, with the promise that a considerable number of tourists would be sent to Turkey, the Turkish government allowed the ship to pass on the condition that it was completely empty.
As a result of the passage made under great security measures, no accidents were experienced and the guarantee amount given by China was not used. After a while, China removed the front company and announced that it would use the ship for military purposes. Varyag, which was promised to be used for tourism purposes during its transportation, was announced by the Chinese Ministry of Defense in 2011, that there was no harm in using as a warship. And the aforementioned Chinese tourists never showed up either.
Trying to present all these events as if Turkey blocked China for 3 years is an extremely unfortunate and deficient perspective. Because Turkey approached China as positively as possible despite all the pressure.
Typical western journalism. Talk as if Ukraine and China still share or cooperate in a lot of crucial military tech. Those times are long over. Besides the jet engine used on L-15 imported from Ukraine. I don't think there is much we want from Ukraine now.
Russia army is afraid of Asov regiments? Man, nazi or not, if I am not mistaken, they are less than 1,000 men armed with light infantry weapons.
What a weakling. Putin should send his generals to Siberia gulags.
A Ukrainian court has seized the assets and all the shares of aerospace company Motor Sich, one of the world’s largest producers of engines for helicopters and planes.
Ukraine’s state security service SBU said in a statement on March 20 that a Kyiv court ruled to seize all property and shares of Motor Sich, and the company was transferred to a government body responsible for managing assets obtained through corruption and other crimes.
Turkey Pakistan Russia China allianceChina was close to Ukraine more than Russia in the past, because Ukraine is willing to sell anything that's worth of value to anyone as long as you have the money. The technology and weapons Ukraine inherited from the Soviet Union still valuable to China especially in the 90s to 00s. It was a good partnership as both got what they needed at the time.
But the relationship deteriorated after the 2014 Maiden Revolution that turn Ukraine into a pro-west government. Ukraine started to support some of the U.S lead anti-China rhetoric in international arena. And the move of nationalized Ukrainian aircraft engine maker Motor Sich after the agreement under the pressure by the U.S fractured the relation. Ukraine still owe China 4.5 billion from the deal and not paying back the money. The 2 paragraphs from the article is contradictory itself.
Example from this article.
"But Khivrenko denied reports that the West, especially the US, had tried to intervene and stop the transfer of military technology to China. “No one has ever tied the hands of Ukraine to prevent any military-technical trade deals” with Beijing, he said.
Kyiv blocked Chinese aerospace firm Skyrizon’s takeover bid for Ukrainian aircraft engine maker Motor Sich, amid US concerns about key technology being transferred. Kyiv said Motor Sich would be nationalised, and Skyrizon is seeking US$4.5 billion in compensation from the Ukrainian government at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague."
Also, Turkey blocked the passage of Varyag from passing the Bosphorus Strait for 3 years on the grounds of safe passage. The trip Start from Black sea on June-1999, only make it to China until March 3, 2002. China could've have an aircraft carrier 3 years earlier if not for the the Turkish blockade.
The reason Turkey given was Varyag was too big too dangerous to be towed through the strategic waterways was obviously B.S. The real reason was U.S government influence, the rest was just excuse as proven the Varyag could be towed through the Bosporus without incident. Turkey has put forward dozens of conditions and got many concession out of China including technology transfer in certain military equipments. Also one of the condition was to pay a security deposit of 1 billion US dollars.
The 1 billion US dollar deposit is not required to be paid, provided that a third-party country has to provide guarantee. It's actually easier for China to guarantee it her self because it's difficult to find a country who would do this for China at the displeasure of the U.S government. And Greece step up in this case to help China. Chinese people will always remember the Greeks for the help.
Lool yeah, using your logic, I can also agree with many people that say foreign powers with a stake in urgur crisis should support uygurs separatists against Chinese genocide. Lol Too bad that China is big, united and strong today, else you will be facing the same situation as Ukraine today like you did in the past against Japan, Russia and Western powers.. Ukraine's only fault of that she is too weak compared to Russia. This world is made for the strong and the strong decide who or what is wrong or right.Their objective is to rescue the people of Donbass, Lugansk and Donetsk from genocide
To be fair to Vietnam, they actually defended well, especially considering they were the weaker side facing a stronger China. In fact, Vietnam was even fighting China while facing a two front war, since their major forces were also engaged in their invasion and occupation of Cambodia . Its actually a very good performance from them fighting a big country like China while still invading and occupying Cambodia. For a smaller poorer country their performance was actually commendable since China couldn't make them pull out of Cambodia and protect China's then ally Polpot whose regime was overthrown by the Vietnamese forces.A Khmer Krom South Vietnamese propaganda as usual. One that cannot be corroborated just like during NAM and 1979 China punish Vietnam conflict.
Simple logic.
The crying and retreating Vietnamese defenders that left in a hurry without their shoes were busily counting Chinese dead out of the air when the advancing enemy decimated those who were could not ran fast enough.
No transportation available as they ran out of fuel just like what is happening in Ukraine today. Fuel were supplied by China.
No wonder 1 million US GI were counted as dead and that was of course according to VC reliable source.
As the VC radio station were broadcasting, the host proudly announced they just shot down a B-52 killing the pilot in midair by using an AK47 rifle.
The VC listen were elated and jumped up the table.
Such drama were not uncommon and good for laugh but not real news.
Get real.
According to US satellite sources and later confirmed by China, only 80,000 PLA soldiers were involved and by the Chinese side, they were all Guangzi border guards.
China and the US were on friendly term back then. China informed the US that they were going to attack Vietnam a month ahead and yet Vietnamese could not defend those hilly grounds in their advantages.
Can't blame the Vietnamese as they are basically guerilla fighters trained using Mao Tze Dong guerilla warfare tactics of 1930 and not a real army trained for fullscale war.
Is anything happening in Xinjiang to the Uyghur now or it is just a lie, a tall tales told endless time and invented by BBC and in the West started by German Adrian Zenz?Lool yeah, using your logic, I can also agree with many people that say foreign powers with a stake in urgur crisis should support uygurs separatists against Chinese genocide. Lol Too bad that China is big, united and strong today, else you will be facing the same situation as Ukraine today like you did in the past against Japan, Russia and Western powers.. Ukraine's only fault of that she is too weak compared to Russia. This world is made for the strong and the strong decide who or what is wrong or right.
Morality is just an excuse to be honest.
In fact we can also use that logic to carve out Malaysiaand Indonesia, afterall, many ethnic chinese have been suppressed, killed, genocide and discriminated against in Malaysia and Indonesia and its public knowledge. You guys are lucky the han Chinese are passive and docile compared to a more imperial warlike country like Russia, else your countries would have been carved out long ago by China to protect ethnic Chinese from genocide .
Lool yeah, using your logic, I can also agree with many people that say foreign powers with a stake in urgur crisis should support uygurs separatists against Chinese genocide. Lol Too bad that China is big, united and strong today, else you will be facing the same situation as Ukraine today like you did in the past against Japan, Russia and Western powers.. Ukraine's only fault of that she is too weak compared to Russia. This world is made for the strong and the strong decide who or what is wrong or right.
Morality is just an excuse to be honest.
In fact we can also use that logic to carve out Malaysiaand Indonesia, afterall, many ethnic chinese have been suppressed, killed, genocide and discriminated against in Malaysia and Indonesia and its public knowledge. You guys are lucky the han Chinese are passive and docile compared to a more imperial warlike country like Russia, else your countries would have been carved out long ago by China to protect ethnic Chinese from genocide .