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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (4417)	2/18/2005 4:11:04 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6370

Pentagon watching Chinese military February 19, 2005 Page Tools Email to a friend Printer format The US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said the Pentagon was closely monitoring the growth of China's navy as part of the nation's military build-up. The department "thinks about" the issue, and was "concerned about" and "attentive to" it, Mr Rumsfeld said. He was responding at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about intelligence projections that the size of the Chinese fleet could surpass the US Navy within a decade. Mr Rumsfeld said the Chinese military budget had experienced double-digit growth in recent years. Mr Rumsfeld has agreed in principle to visit China this year. Many analysts have interpreted that as an effort towards mending military ties damaged after a US Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter jet collided in international air space in 2001. A recent Chinese policy paper challenged the US military presence in the Pacific and the Bush Administration is concerned about China's military build-up near Taiwan. Mr Rumsfeld said China was a country "we hope and pray enters the civilised world in an orderly way ... " [Rummy, China has been in a civilization long long before your ancesters had!] smh.com.au