The Great Game Changer: Belt and Road Intiative (BRI; OBOR)

[TaiShang]

how come it is a threat
may be american thinking they will take over alaska hahaha

Paranoia has no limits, apparently.

 

[Post Colonnial]

India is something China is striving NOT to become.

A country that has a caste system, rape epidemic, mass starvation, children dying of malnutrition, no sanitation should be considered a failed state. India is the country that comes closest to many failed states in Africa.

China has all these malaise in worse proportions, the central party apparatus simply hides all the info, until they no longer can. Case in point - the debt bubble that is currently bursting! Even here, they tried to hide the bursting bubble by manipulating the market but it became too much!

Sorry pal, nice try no cigar!

 

[IR-TR]

China has all these malaise in worse proportions, the central party apparatus simply hides all the info, until they no longer can. Case in point - the debt bubble that is currently bursting! Even here, they tried to hide the bursting bubble by manipulating the market but it became too much!

Sorry pal, nice try no cigar!

Why don't you make sure even your biggest and most prosperous cities have sewage and drinking water, then complain about China.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

As soon as our Zubr fleet reaches 100 to 200, we are ready to directly amphibious assault Tokyo from Tokyo Bay. Our tanks will roll into Shinto shrines, Tokyo University, government building and office towers of the keiretsu!

You are suspiciously fake Chinese.

Whats your game here boy?

 

[Post Colonnial]

Why don't you make sure even your biggest and most prosperous cities have sewage and drinking water, then complain about China.

it is not one or the other. I want India to improve and I want China to improve as well.

 

[Jlaw]

India is something China is striving NOT to become.

A country that has a caste system, rape epidemic, mass starvation, children dying of malnutrition, no sanitation should be considered a failed state. India is the country that comes closest to many failed states in Africa.

Most Africa countries are doing a lot better. In their defense, African countries were looted and people were put in slavery. India have no excuses. They were ruled by British who gave them a legal system, technology and protection.

No more excuses from the southern superpower.

 

[My-Analogous]

Well, if only they've read Romance of the Three Kingdoms, lol.

Yeah new romance of the three friendly Nations (Pakistan, China and Russia) against US

 

[TaiShang]

China Newspaper Condemns US Fears of Russia Ties


ASIA & PACIFIC
27.08.2015

China's ruling party newspaper countered the idea that the country's growing partnership with Russia presents a "nightmare" to the United States, saying that the US seeks to "shape an unfair global order."

The newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party, People's Daily, condemned the idea that China and Russia's growing ties present a "nightmare" to the United States, as claimed in an article in The National Interest.

The article, authored by senior figures at the Atlantic Council, a think tank, claims that the new partnership between Russia and China allows the countries "the chance to reshape the global order to their liking." The article admitted that "no single nation can singularly shape international outcomes," but called on the US to act as a "first among equals."

"The US regards itself as the leader of the world, which clearly reveals its mentality of hegemony. It also holds that hegemony contributes to stability, but this is not the fact," People's Daily countered.

Four Reasons Why the New China-Russia Exercises Are Extraordinary

The newspaper added that Russia and China seek to improve the global order rather than ruin it. It cited the example of the US-initiated Iraq War, which brought instability to the Middle East as an example of the US-led global order.


People's Daily also called on the US to never seek confrontation and conflicts. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi echoed this attitude in anarticle published on August 23 in People's Daily and Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

"China and Russia, as victor-countries in World War II, founding UN members and permanent members of its Security Council, are important constructive forces contributing to the formation of a multi-polar world," Wang Yi wrote.

The ruling party newspaper added that US dominance has damaged international security and development, concluding that "any hopeful US attempt to overthrow other countries' regimes must be thwarted."

 

[TaiShang]

Scary Duo: US in Fear of Russia, China to Crush on Its Stealth Aircraft

16:36 27.08.2015(updated 16:38 27.08.2015) Get short URL

The US media is concerned that Russia and China seem to be developing a new generation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), capable of “negating America’s advantages in stealth aircraft.”

The assumption is made on the basis of a report published on Flightglobal, a website related to the aviation and aerospace industries.

It says that “Russia could be working on a low-observable, F-35-hunting unmanned air vehicle that uses deeply-integrated electronic warfare systems to stay hidden from radar. The tip-off comes from electronic systems producer KRET, which has a curious UAV model on display at the MAKS air show in Moscow.”

It cites the company’s first deputy chief executive officer Vladimir Mikheev as describing the vehicle as an advanced military UAV designed to detect stealth aircraft in the same vein as China’s ambitious “Divine Eagle” project.

Such aircraft, the website says, would detect hard-to-absorb US combat aircraft using X-band and UHF radars, specifically the Lockheed Martin F-22 and F-35, and Northrop Grumman B-2. Airborne surveillance is just one of the UAV’s capabilities.

Mikheev says KRET is providing a deeply-integrated electronic warfare system that not only provides a protective electromagnetic sphere around the aircraft to counter air-to-air missiles, but also cloaks it from radars.

The unmanned aircraft closely resembles Northrop’s carrier-based X-47B demonstrator, but adds two lift fans on each wing and vertical stabilizers.

Mikheev says the UAV’s avionics, radar and electronic warfare systems are derived from those being produced for the Sukhoi Su-35 multirole fighter and the Kamov Ka-50 attack helicopter.

The US media therefore recalled what the Chinese Divine Eagle project is all about.

“The Divine Eagle, perhaps China's most ambitious drone design. Planned to hunt stealth planes from afar, it could turn out to be not just the world's largest drone, but one of the most important to the future of war,” the website added.


“The timing is notable. Coming shorty after the release of the first Chinese defense White Paper calling for Chinese military expeditionary capabilities and high profile Sino-Russian naval exercises, the Divine Eagle is a visual announcement that China's building unique technologies that could change the brewing arms race in the Asia Pacific.”

The website also acknowledged that The Divine Eagle is planned to carry multiple Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars, of the AMTI, SAR and GMTI varities. Airborne Moving Target Indicator (AMTI) radar types are used to track airborne targets, like enemy fighters and cruise missiles. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides high resolution of slow moving ground vehicles and enemy bases.


Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) radars are ideal for identifying and tracking ships, such as aircraft carriers. X/UHF band radars, which include the "F-22 killer" JY-26 that debuted at Zhuhai 2014, have raised concerns in the American military that they could track stealth aircraft like the F-35 fighter and B-2 bomber at long ranges.


As a High Altitude, Long Endurance (HALE) UAV, the Divine Eagle would prove incredibly useful in both offensive and defensive operations. Its long range anti-stealth capabilities can be used against both aircraft, like the B-2 bomber, and warships such as the DDG-1000 destroyer. Using the Divine Eagle as a picket, the Chinese air force could quickly intercept stealthy enemy aircraft, missiles and ships well before they come in range of the Mainland. Flying high, the Divine Eagle could also detect anti-ship missile trucks and air defenses on land, in preparation for offensive Chinese activity.

 

[TaiShang]

Chinese and Russian navies conduct joint landing drill
August 27, 2015


The Chinese and Russian navies held a joint beach landing drill in Russia's Peter the Great Gulf on August 25 as part of the ongoing China-Russia Joint Sea-2015 (II) live-fire military exercise. It is the first time for the two sides conduct landing exercises by using transport aircraft, helicopters, amphibious armored vehicles and landing ships together since 2012. (Photo/ People’s Daily Online)


The Chinese and Russian navies held a joint beach landing drill in Russia's Peter the Great Gulf on August 25 as part of the ongoing China-Russia Joint Sea-2015 (II) live-fire military exercise. It is the first time for the two sides conduct landing exercises by using transport aircraft, helicopters, amphibious armored vehicles and landing ships together since 2012. (Photo/ People’s Daily Online)


The Chinese and Russian navies held a joint beach landing drill in Russia's Peter the Great Gulf on August 25 as part of the ongoing China-Russia Joint Sea-2015 (II) live-fire military exercise. It is the first time for the two sides conduct landing exercises by using transport aircraft, helicopters, amphibious armored vehicles and landing ships together since 2012. (Photo/ People’s Daily Online)


The Chinese and Russian navies held a joint beach landing drill in Russia's Peter the Great Gulf on August 25 as part of the ongoing China-Russia Joint Sea-2015 (II) live-fire military exercise. It is the first time for the two sides conduct landing exercises by using transport aircraft, helicopters, amphibious armored vehicles and landing ships together since 2012. (Photo/ People’s Daily Online)

The Chinese and Russian navies held a joint beach landing drill in Russia's Peter the Great Gulf on August 25 as part of the ongoing China-Russia Joint Sea-2015 (II) live-fire military exercise. It is the first time for the two sides conduct landing exercises by using transport aircraft, helicopters, amphibious armored vehicles and landing ships together since 2012. (Photo/ People’s Daily Online)

 

[TaiShang]

Russia and China are once again in the spotlight of the US media: let’s have a look at what they fear the two will do next.

Only recently, the US voiced its concern over the possible development by Russia and China of a new generation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), capable of “negating America’s advantages in stealth aircraft.”

Scary Duo: US in Fear of Russia, China to Crush on Its Stealth Aircraft

Now American media outlets are analyzing whether the two would jointly develop “some of the most sophisticated types of naval vessels on the planet.”

The idea was first raised in a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal. The newspaper alleged that “since the start of tensions with the West, Russia has touted what it calls a strategic alliance with China, which may develop into plans to build a joint aircraft carrier.”

The publisher, however, hopes that “a falling ruble and weaker economy has forced the Kremlin to scale back its ambitious plans for a multibillion-dollar military modernization.”

Additionally, it quotes a defense industry official as saying that “China is raising its demands, and wants a controlling stake in the project.”

The magazine the National Interest goes further and gives its own reasons for and against the possible joint project for each of the sides.

China's Official Newspaper Condemns US Fears of Russia Ties

As for Russia, it also hopes that Moscow “simply won’t have the money for such a financially draining endeavor.”

It reasons that “modern aircraft carriers cost billions of dollars to design, test and manufacture. Such a possibility seems silly when one considers that Moscow is struggling to modernize its military with other expensive pieces of hardware in the face of economic sanctions and sagging oil prices.”

China, it alleges, also wouldn’t “want to throw billions of dollars into such a project”, as its economy is “starting to sour”.

Besides, it questions, “why would China place billions of dollars into carriers with Russia or even on its own when it is working to undermine the military utility of such a weapons platform in the first place?”

However, now that a certain amount of money has been released due to the failed Mistral deal with France, it is still remains to be seen whether such a project can come to life.

 

[sicsheep]

The identities of a group of American technical experts who have provided assistance to covert operations by the US government overseas have been compromised as the result of cross-referencing of data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and other recent data breaches, according a Los Angeles Timesreport. The Times' Brian Bennet and W. J. Hennigan cited allegations from two US officials speaking under the condition of anonymity that Chinese and Russian intelligence agencies have worked with both private software companies and criminal hacking rings to obtain and analyze data.

William Evanina, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's National Counterintelligence Executive, confirmed in an interview with the LA Times that data from breaches had "absolutely" been used to unmask US covert agents. Performing data analytics on breach data could tell foreign intelligence agencies "who is an intelligence officer, who travels where, when, who's got financial difficulties, who's got medical issues" and help create a "common picture" of US intelligence operations, he said.

According to the report, the OPM hack and other major data breaches were being merged and analyzed by China in an effort to both ferret out US covert operations—to provide background information for targeted cyber-attacks—and to provide intelligence on individuals who could be targeted for blackmail. And Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is also using recent data breaches and ties to cybercriminals to target US government employees for cyber-attacks, the unnamed officials claimed.

The OPM data breach may have played a role in the recent attack on the e-mail system of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to the LA Times report, e-mails to JCS staffers purporting to be from USAA, a bank and insurance company serving current and former military members, carried links to a Web-based malware implant. Russian hackers mounted a similar attack on the State Department's e-mail system last year.

The Department of Defense is reportedly reviewing data from the Ashley Madison breach to determine if any service members' data was included—data that would make them vulnerable to blackmail, as infidelity and adultery are cause for revocation of security clearances and a violation of military law.

By collaborating with private companies and outside hackers rather than using internal government capabilities to gather data, the Chinese and Russian intelligence communities are able to avoid direct attribution of the attacks to them, officials told the Times. That makes it difficult for the US to target them with a response—and it may be why US officials have not directly, publicly implicated the Chinese government in the OPM hack.

China and Russia cross-referencing OPM data, other hacks to out US spies | Ars Technica

 

[TaiShang]

According to the report, the OPM hack and other major data breaches were being merged and analyzed by China in an effort to both ferret out US covert operations—to provide background information for targeted cyber-attacks—and to provide intelligence on individuals who could be targeted for blackmail. And Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is also using recent data breaches and ties to cybercriminals to target US government employees for cyber-attacks, the unnamed officials claimed.

President Xi must bring this up when meeting with Obama.

The rogue cyber-criminal must be warned not to engage in state-led cyber attacks against China and Russia.

If the US does not comply, China and Russia must impose sanctions on related US persons and entities.

 

[BuddhaPalm]

Now China and Russia can compete for best enhanced interrogation technique with live American test subjects! Probably there are some ladies too among these intel agents. Who can get them to squeal first?

 

[apiSubmarine]

Should China ally with Russia , Is it benefits for both country? I think they both country are strong enough,
if yes, what are the benefits for Russia and china.