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    I wanted to start a thread on China where we can post some news. China is becoming a natural ally of Armenia because we share the same enemy. Here is a news article of some interest.

    Terrorist" axe, knife and arson attack kills 21 in China's Xinjiang

    China's Xinjiang says "terrorist" axe, knife and arson attack kills 21
    4:17am EDT


    BEIJING | Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:27am EDT

    (Reuters) - A confrontation involving axes, knives, at least one gun and ending with the burning down of a house left 21 people dead in China's troubled far-west region of Xinjiang, a government spokeswoman said on Wednesday, calling it a "terrorist attack".

    It was the deadliest violence in the region since July 2009, when Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, was rocked by clashes between majority Han Chinese and minority Uighurs that killed nearly 200 people.

    Nine residents, six police and six ethnic Uighurs were killed in Tuesday's drama, said Hou Hanmin, spokeswoman for the Xinjiang government.

    It was not immediately clear how many burnt to death.

    Hou did not name any group, but China has blamed previous attacks in energy-rich Xinjiang - strategically located on the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Central Asia - on Islamic separatists who want to establish an independent East Turkestan.

    Many Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people native to Xinjiang, chafe at Chinese controls on their religion, language and culture.

    Three "community workers" were patrolling a neighborhood of Bachu County, known as Maralbexi by Uighurs, in Kashgar after a tip-off that there were "suspicious people" in a private house, Hou said.

    One of the three used a phone to call for help after they found a number of knives, resulting in their being killed by 14 Uighur "rioters" in the house, Hou said.

    "The community people were just conducting regular checks, but the action from the rioters was planned and well prepared," Hou said. "It's certainly a terrorist attack."

    Several police and other "community workers" came in different groups to the home where the Uighurs used axes and large knives to slash the police officers and workers, Hou said.

    Only one police officer was armed with a gun, she said.

    The battle ended with the gang members burning down the house, killing the rest of the people there, Hou said. Eight people had been detained.

    Some Chinese officials blame such attacks on Muslim militants trained in Pakistan. But many rights groups say China overstates the threat to justify its tight grip on the region.

    Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the exiled World Uyghur Congress, said the violence was sparked by the shooting and killing of a young Uighur by "Chinese armed personnel", prompting the Uighurs to retaliate.

    "The information that we've received is that from last night till this morning, the authorities have flooded the streets with armed men," Dilxat Raxit said by phone from Sweden where he is based.

    "After the incident, the locals' mobile phone and internet connections were cut off. Today it has recovered slightly, though not completely."

    Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the "violent terrorist acts" would not win popular support.

    "The current situation in Xinjiang is good, but a small group of terrorist forces is still trying every possible means to disturb and destroy the present stability and trend of development in Xinjiang," Hua told reporters.

    (Reporting by Sally Huang, Terril Yue Jones, Sui-Lee Wee, Michael Martina and Beijing newsroom; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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    Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
    I wanted to start a thread on China where we can post some news. China is becoming a natural ally of Armenia because we share the same enemy.
    China is a "natural ally" of nobody. Though it is not surprising that someone like you would consider a country that has over the last 100 years killed hundreds of millions of its own people, and has committed oppression and genocide on a massive scale against non-Chinese, and has made it its state policy to rape the world's resources, to be a "natural ally" for your sort of Armenia.
    Plenipotentiary meow!

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      Lets ignore the fact that China has 1.2 billion people and consumes less resources then the USA which has 0.3 billion people. Bell your so good at ignoring things like historic facts and facts in the present and how these things effect us in the furture. Mysort of Armenia is a place where anyone would like to live and raise a family where as your sort of Armenia is condemed to history books and folk stories.
      Last edited by Haykakan; 04-25-2013, 07:29 PM.
      Hayastan or Bust.

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        US BLACKLISTS CHINESE WINNER OF TURKISH BID

        11:28 30.09.13

        The Chinese company "CPMIEC", which has won a bid in Turkey for
        creating of long-range missiles, was included in a US "black" list,
        Trend.az reported, citing CNNTurk.

        The company is said to have been blacklisted for its activities in
        Iran, North Korea and Syria.

        It was declared a bid winner earlier in September.

        At the Executive Committee of Turkey's Defense Industry, it was
        announced that the Chinese company would create the long-range missiles
        in cooperation with Turkish manufacturers.

        It was further announced that CPMIEC's project, which envisages
        the production of FD-2000 missiles, leaves behind other projects by
        Russian, American, and French and Italian companies.

        Armenian News - Tert.am
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          Here is a very interesting undertaking never before attempted. Very interesting development project.
          Hayastan or Bust.

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            Japan Lost Indonesian Railway Contract to China


            Column: Economics

            Region: Eastern Asia

            Country: China



            5736433October 16, 2015 will undoubtedly be a significant «milestone» in the future analytical study of the political game change in the South-East Asia.

            On this day, in the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, the Chinese China Railway International and the Indonesian PT Pillar Sinergi BUMN signed documents on the establishment of a joint venture (Indonesia will hold 60% and China – 40%), which will carry out the construction of a high-speed Jakarta-Bandung railway.

            The railway will cover the distance of 150 km. The average speed of express trains will reach 200-250 km/h. Travel time will drop from current three hours to just 30-40 minutes. Construction of the railway will start next year, and it is planned to put it into operation in 2019. Total cost of the project is estimated at $5.5 bn. It will be the first high-speed railway not only in Indonesia, but also in the entire South-East Asia. For China, too, this will the first project of this kind abroad.

            Execution of documents puts an end to long and fierce competition between China and Japan in the pursuit to win the contract for construction of the first project envisaged by the ambitious plans of the current President of Indonesia Joko Widodo aiming to develop transport infrastructure as a prerequisite for further economic progress of the country.

            Sofyan Djalil, head of the Indonesian National Development Planning Agency, delivered the unpleasant news to Japan during his visit to the country in September. According to Japanese press, the information came as a shock to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga who was hosting the head of Indonesian administration. At a meeting with journalists Yoshihide Suga said that the news was “extremely regrettable” and that it was “difficult to understand” the motives behind the decision of the Indonesian government.

            Japan had some good reasons to assume that victory in the Indonesian tender was almost in its pocket, because back in 2008, Jakarta started to contact Japanese companies to get consultancy services on the development of high-speed rail transport. According to estimates, the cost of these and other services provided by Japanese companies ran up to $5 million.

            Today Japan is of the opinion that the Chinese competitors sidestepped recent regulators in high-speed railway industry simply because they were able to propose better project financing terms, and not due to any advantages over the Japanese technologies. In particular, it is stated that the Indonesian counterparts were not satisfied with the demand to provide government guarantee from Djakarta for the loan that Japan was ready to grant in case of winning the tender.

            However, Japan continued to keep its hopes for success even after early in September Indonesia dropped both Chinese and Japanese projects which required a certain degree of financial participation of the Indonesian government. It seems that by the end of September China issued a radical decision to fully abandon the idea of engaging Indonesian government in project implementation and this circumstance allegedly influenced Jakarta’s final decision.

            According to Yang Zhongmin, the chairman of China Railway International Co., his company was successful because it applied a business-to-business marketing technology which is commonly used in transactions between trade dealers. In the case with Indonesian high-speed railway China offered a set of services to the Indonesian colleagues, including “the transfer of technology, investments and experience of the maintenance staff“.

            Yang Zhongmin expressed confidence in the project’s success and its further development. When saying that, he apparently implied the plans of the Indonesian government to extend the original 150-kilometer road to 750 km and, by doing so, to connect three of six provinces of the Java Island with the high-speed railway.

            It is worth mentioning that Indonesia views the development of transport infrastructure in the wide context of creating the associated clusters of the modern industry, which will help to create workplaces for hundreds of thousands of the Indonesians. With this in the mind, China expressed its readiness to arrange the production of express trains in Indonesia with the subsequent sale by the same joint venture both on the domestic and foreign markets.

            The scale and significance of an extremely important victory of China in the Indonesian tender go far beyond the framework of this specific project and are interpreted from different perspectives. In particular, there is an opinion that participation of China in the construction of a modern railway infrastructure in Indonesia signals the beginning of the Maritime Silk Road concept implementation, which (as well as its land version) has not been finally shaped yet. It seems, however, that as far as this project is concerned, China was not looking to achieve some “global” objectives. Rather, Beijing’s actions should be construed in the context of China’s relations with its opponents in the extremely important South-East Asia and, in particular, in its key country.

            The victory in the ambitious Indonesian tender symbolized the first noticeable success of the Chinese policy towards its southern neighbors, which was significantly adjusted in autumn 2013, when Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Indonesia. From that time on, the “pushy” Chinese foreign policy started “toning down” (at least in terms of rhetoric), although prior to that it used to alert China’s neighbors and expanded the opportunity for the geopolitical opponents to intervene in the situation in the South-East Asia.

            Japan, being a key opponent, comes out most noticeably. It regarded the defeat in the Indonesian tender as a serious blow to the newly fine-tuned economic policy of the prime minister Shinzo Abe, one of the core ingredients of which was supposed to be the expanding activity of Japanese companies in the foreign markets and, first of all, in the South-East Asia.

            Besides, the political aspects of the failure on the Indonesian market are as important to Japan as they are to its main geopolitical opponent – China. As New Eastern Outlook has repeatedly noted in its articles, the situation in the South-East Asia is becoming ever more important for Tokyo from the standpoint of its foreign policy and the problems associated with security in a broad sense of this term.

            Japan has sustained a severe, but not a disastrous stroke in the extremely important sub-region. Cooperation in the realm of defense between Japan and Indonesia will undoubtedly continue, especially since it got a new meaning after President Joko Widodo visited Tokyo in March 2015.

            As for Indonesia, the challenge of selecting the winner in the “railway” tender must have been a difficult task for its government, since they had to choose between two leading regional powers, and the country has to maintain productive relations with both of them.

            From this perspective, the way in which the unpleasant news was delivered to Tokyo appears noteworthy. We can only speculate that most probably, the envoy of the Indonesian government brought to Tokyo something like an apology and a reassurance that “you still have good chances.”

            Finally, it is worth mentioning the concurrence between the time when Tokyo was notified of its defeat in the tender and the time when the Japanese National Diet passed new defense law. The concurrence is, of course, accidental, but symbolic.

            At that very time when Japan decided to strengthen the role of the military component in the “tool kit” for achievement of national interests on the international arena, it suffered defeat in shaping its course towards them with the help of economy, which it had usually managed to do successfully during the last 50-60 years.

            It feels like the concurrence is conveying some message, doesn’t it?

            Vladimir Terekhov, expert on the Asia-Pacific region, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.“


            First appeared: http://journal-neo.org/2015/10/28/ja...ract-to-china/
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              CHINA BUYS 24 ADVANCED RUSSIAN SU-35 WARPLANES IN ESTIMATED $2BN LANDMARK DEAL

              Published time: 19 Nov, 2015 06:52Edited time: 19 Nov, 2015 07:34
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              The Su-35 fighter. © Artem Zhitenev / Sputnik
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              China has signed a contract to buy 24 Sukhoi Su-35 multipurpose fighter
              jets from Russia, becoming the first foreign buyer of the advanced
              warplane, according to manufacturer Rostec. The deal, estimated to
              be worth $2 billion, is a significant boost to Russia's arms exports.

              "The long negotiation on the Su-35 sale to China has been completed.

              We have signed a contract," Sergey Chemezov, the head of the Russian
              state-owned high-tech giant Rostec, told Kommersant business daily.

              Chemezov didn't disclose the details of the deal, but Kommersant
              cited sources in the Russian arms industry as saying that China had
              purchased 24 Su-35s at a price of about $83 million each.

              The Su-35 (designated Flanker-E+, not to be confused with the Su-27M,
              which used to be called the same name before its discontinuation) is a
              long-range "4++ generation" fighter jet. It is armed with an internal
              30mm cannon and has 12 hardpoints with a combined capacity of 8,000 kg,
              compatible with a wide range of unguided and guided missiles and bombs.

              The Russian armed forces are the primary operator of the aircraft,
              with 36 series Su-35s currently in their possession and more to be
              produced. China first showed its interest in buying Su-35s in 2008
              during the Airshow China international expo. Formal negotiations
              started in 2011.

              According to Kommersant, the deal does not involve domestic production
              of Su-35s in China, a condition usually desired by Beijing due to
              its strategic goal of producing an entire range of the weapons it
              uses on its own territory.

              The deal would ensure Chinese Air Force superiority in the region
              amid brewing conflicts with other nations, such as the Philippines and
              Japan, over territorial disputes. China's own production capabilities
              of advanced warplanes, including the J-11, are not yet sufficient to
              maintain the necessary strength, according to Chinese media.

              China is currently among the world's top five buyers of Russian arms,
              restoring its position after a slowdown in late 2000s. Beijing buys
              advanced Russian jet engines, submarines and surface-to-air missiles,
              among other high-tech military items.

              China has signed a contract to buy 24 Sukhoi Su-35 multipurpose fighter jets from Russia, becoming the first foreign buyer of the advanced warplane, according to manufacturer Rostec. The deal, estimated to be worth $2 billion, is a significant boost to Russia’s arms exports.
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                China-CEE cooperation gets on fast track

                News | 26.11.2015 | 10:50




                Xinhua - Heads of governments from central and eastern Europe (CEE) nations got to experience the "China speed" firsthand on Wednesday when, accompanied by Premier Li Keqiang, they boarded China's most advanced bullet train.



                The CRH380A has a maximum speed of 486 kilometers per hour. The 25-minute trip took the leaders from the garden city of Suzhou to financial hub of Shanghai, 100 kilometers away, speeding past industrial parks and factories much of where laid bare farmlands just a decade ago.



                At that speed, the train would take less than 20 hours to travel from Beijing to any of the leaders' hometowns.



                Flags of China and 16 CEE countries and slogans that read "16+1>17" were painted on the body of the 16-carriage train, highlighting cooperation and development between China and the 16 countries which just completed an annual summit meeting in Suzhou, east China.



                "The trip mirrors China-CEE cooperation - high speed, but comfortable and reassuring," Li told the European leaders.



                "It is very impressive," said Hungarian Prime Minister Orban Viktor. "China's development is indeed admirable."



                His words echoed those of Polish President Andrzej Duda who said a day earlier that he hoped Poland and the entire Central and Eastern Europe could all benefit from China's growth.



                Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas expressed hopes that China will take part in high-speed railway construction in the Baltic region.



                ALL ABOARD



                Wednesday's excursion came just a day after China signed two separate deals with Hungary and Serbia on a high-speed rail link between Budapest and Belgrade that could cut travel time between the two capitals from eight hours to less than three.



                Once completed, the railway will become part of a fast lane for importing and exporting goods between China and Europe. Macedonia also inked a deal with China in June to purchase six fleets of high-speed trains.



                China is actively working to export high-speed rail technology, with domestic and foreign media sometimes referring to Premier Li as the country's top railway salesman. A new term -- high-speed railway diplomacy -- has entered Chinese political parlance.



                The situation is clearly win-win. China gets to upgrade its economy and partner countries get infrastructure with lower costs.



                China's first overseas high-speed rail project was completed in Turkey in 2014 where a 533-km railway links capital Ankara with Istanbul. In Africa, China's technology will be the backbone of the public transport systems in countries including Nigeria and Ethiopia.



                A 1,344-km railroad went into operation in Angola in 2014 and last May a deal was struck to build a 3.8 billion dollar line between the two Kenyan cities of Mombasa and Nairobi, the first phase of a line that will eventually connect Kenya to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.



                In September, Malaysia began running the world's fastest meter-gauge multiple unit trains made by Chinese. Laos, Thailand and Russia also plan high-speed railway lines with Chinese investment.



                In South America, Chinese trains began ferrying Buenos Aires' commuters to work last November.



                High-speed rail in Central and Eastern Europe is a new idea, but the long-term effects are not difficult to assess. With China's ambitious plans taking shape, Central and Eastern Europe will soon have a new, convenient channel to import and export products to and from Asia.



                COOPERATIVE TRACK



                For China, these deals are not just about trains, but so much more.



                In official political parlance, the Chinese word "train" almost always takes on an extra interpretation of being positive and cooperative.



                "Welcome aboard China's train of development!" Chinese President Xi Jinping told Mongolian lawmakers in Ulan Bator last year. "You can take a ride on our express train or just make a hitchhike, all are welcome."



                Li Keqiang drew a similar metaphor in Suzhou in his keynote speech to the summit on Tuesday, comparing China-CEE cooperation to a train picking up speed.



                "From Warsaw to Bucharest, from Belgrade to Suzhou, we are all aboard this high-speed train," Li said with obvious pride.



                There are good reasons to be proud. Trade between China and the 16 CEE countries exceeded 60 billion U.S. dollars last year, just one tenth of China-EU trade. The total amount is relatively low, but the growth rate is impressive. In 2010, the figure was only 44 billion U.S. dollars.



                "Faced with a sluggish global picture, China and CEE countries have maintained good momentum on practical cooperation, with rapidly growing trade and investment, and major cooperative projects underway," Li said.p China plans to double its trade with the region by 2019, and, in the current climate, the mood is comparatively upbeat. Two-way investment is up: Chinese companies have invested more than 5 billion U.S. dollars in CEE countries and more than 1.2 billion U.S. dollars in investment has come flowing back, according to China's commerce ministry.



                Cross-border e-commerce means CEE-made beer, wine, chocolate and cosmetics are gaining popularity in China.



                Tourism is an area with plenty of scope for improvement. Chinese tourists made over 130 million outbound trips last year, but most headed to the Republic of Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and Western Europe.



                A medium-term agenda published Tuesday agreed to link China's Belt and Road Initiative to CEE development strategies,taking advantage of China's strength in infrastructure building and finance to meet CEE countries' need for connectivity. Flagship projects, like the Budapest-Belgrade railway, are in the spotlight, but there are plenty more.



                The leaders discussed the China-proposed initiative to promote cooperation among port areas in the Baltic Sea, the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea. China also expressed willingness to participate in Slovenia's Port of Koper renovation.



                The Belt and Road will benefit both China and CEE countries, Polish President Andrzej Duda said, adding that Poland, as Eurasia's logistics center, is vital in promoting China-European trade. All 16 CEE countries are on the Belt and Road.



                A China-Europe land-sea express passage will strengthen connectivity and scale up trade between China and Europe.



                China is considering a 3-billion-U.S. dollar investment fund and a "16+1" multilateral financing channel to reduce investment costs. "As long as CEE countries use products and equipment made by China, China will provide financing support," Li said.
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