First thoughts on Deng Xiaoping
Recently, I’ve been reading Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China by Ezra Vogel. I still have not finished reading this book, but have read enough to be riveted by…
China's foreign policy under Deng
This is the second part of my blog entries on Deng Xiaoping based on the book by Ezra Vogel. Next time, I will explore Deng and June 4th student movement,…
Liaoning and future Carriers
As I’m sure you all know by now, the formerly known Varyag Aircraft Carrier was commissioned into PLAN as Liaoning and given the Type 001 class AC with pennant number…
How a slowdown of Chinese economy may effect PLA
If you have not been following Asia news recently, you may have missed out on the dramatic slow down recently in the Chinese economy. There are many reasons for this…
Status of J-10
Recently, we’ve seen what appears to be the last batch of J-10A fighter jets making their test flights. The 6th batch of J-10As number all the way up to 637…
The white elephants of PLAN
With the induction of Liaoning into PLAN this past week, PLAN has reached a milestone in its drive to modernize and becoming blue water navy. We can see now that…
First flight of J-15 off Liaoning
It has finally happened. We finally have news confirmation from Xinhua and also have pictures of J-15’s first take/off and landing from Xinhua. The news of first landing came a…
What does J-31 tell us about China?
There have been many articles written about the recent first flight of J-31. If you go to sinodefenceforum where I moderate, you can see pages and pages of analysis by…
J-15 vs Su-33 vs Mig-29K
This past week, there was an article on People’s daily called China’s J-15 fighter superior to Russian Su-33 I had a couple of thoughts reading through it. My first thought…
China's recent expansion of Civilian Maritime Force
One of the things that I’ve been really focusing on in the past few months is the recent dramatic expansion of China’s civilian maritime force. Much of this is caused…