China tests stealth fighter

[Peter Lemkin]

Pretty fancy and not so little machine!....Amazing when compared with the images of people there in Mao-suits of three colors working the land by had and oxen in my youth. Well, surprise, surprise! I'd imagine it is a number of things. First, they have sent many of their best students to study abroad to come up to speed [had some in my classes at Yale] - but now they are back teaching and researching at home. Second, while so many 'Western' countries used the cheap labor there to have them build their electronic whatevers, they forgot that that also gave them the tools, machinery, infrastructure, training, etc. to build their own - of just take some off the assembly line for their own use. Third, China and France seem to be the leaders in Industrial espionage, with Russia third and the USA a paltry wanna be. [Though we were #1 stealing the Reich's technical secrets and smug ever since.] Fourth, they now have lots of money and money, while it can't buy you love [except in the Berlusconni sense] it can buy mucho technical items - or the experts and machinery to build them. So, China now doesn't have a large military [men, yes; arms no]; but they do seem to have some of the most up to date kinds...and as these are all mass produced....and they have the money.....watch out! I know the neocons are. While I think China is ready willing and able to protect its own territory and natural resources it deems essential, I don't yet sense any expansionist desires for physical Empire....but who know which way the wind blows. One thing is for sure. Japan isn't going to mess with China like it did pre WWII!!!!