What Varyag means
As I’m sure everyone have heard by now, Varyag began sea trials 2 days ago. We have not seen pictures of its sea trial, but have seen pictures of the…
China/Russia military cooperation
This is the part 3 in the series of reviewing the content of the recent book that I read. In the past, I have often been harsh toward the recent…
Evolution of PLAAF doctrine/training
This is the part 4 in the series of reviewing the content of the recent book that I read. I will be looking at the evolution of PLAAF training and…
The different procurement practics of China and India
This is the part 5 of the series of reviewing the content of the recent book that I read. I will be exploring how India and China approached the purchase…
My thoughts on economics and politics
As we all know and have experienced, the world has been in a prolonged economic uncertainty since 2008. Although many countries had economic recoveries starting from the second half of…
Rebuke against Kanwa
I’ve been a long time follower of Kanwa magazine. Even though I do not have much regard for the quality of writing, I do find its interviews and news from…
Gap between China and Russia
After I posted the last blog entry on rebuking Kanwa’s support for Russian military industrial complex, there was quite a few passionate responses in the thread. More interesting, there was…
What would happen if European embargo is lifted
I had originally wanted to just do a comparison of European and Chinese military industrial complex and talk about the gap between them. After thinking about it a little bit,…
PLAN conventional submarine fleet update
About a year ago, I wrote an entry on the Chinese submarine fleet. In that article, I talked about the different submarine classes in service with PLAN and a little…