China is using North Korea to do their dirty work says Marc Faber

Faber noted, "In general, [North Korea] is a country that can hardly produce bicycles. They have practically no industries. How can they have nuclear technology? How can they supply weapons to Iran?" He claimed that "China is using the North Koreans" to do their dirty work. - in CNBC Squawk Box

PLAAF's aging Su-27UBK crash Near Rongcheng (Shandong prov.). Two pilots killed.

As Richard Gere would put it China Karma in Tibet

First contract for a batch of 24 Su-27 was signed on June 14, 1990 and after 19 years of service; it is not surprising to note that first batch has already reached its end-of-service-life. The original SU-27 airframe only has a stated service life of 5000 hours.

The SU27 which are still flying are crashing out of the skies courtesy of Made in China spurious spare parts

Wu Yongming, deputy chief of staff of an aviation regiment under the PLA Air Force

 

 

Yu Liang, head of a flight group of the aviation regiment under the PLA Air Force.

Seems PLAAF had given a Beach Touch-And-Go mission to the 2 pilots 

50 caliber Sniper Rifle in Syria IS NOT an AS50 , it's Chinese M99

Chinese caught supplying and supporting both sides in Syria again.

The art of war, Chinese style

The recent 50th anniversary of China’s invasion of India attracted much discussion, especially within India. Yet the debate shied away from drawing the broader, long-term lessons for Asian security.
The lessons are also relevant for China’s other neighbors because the 1962 war helped uncover the key elements of Beijing’s war-fighting doctrine — a doctrine it brought into play in 1969 (provoking bloody border clashes with Soviet forces), 1974 (occupying the Paracel Islands), 1979 (invading Vietnam), 1988 (seizing Johnson Reef), and 1995 (grabbing Mischief Reef). In each of those aggressions, the major 1962 elements were replicated.

As a 2010 Pentagon report citing the 1962 war, among others, put it, “The history of modern Chinese warfare provides numerous case studies in which China’s leaders have claimed military pre-emption as a strategically defensive act.” In fact, a 2010 essay in the Qiu Shi Journal — the ideological and theoretical organ of the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee — underscored the centrality of “offense as defense” in Chinese policy by declaring that “Throughout the history of new China, peace in China has never been gained by giving in, only through war. Safeguarding national interests is never achieved by mere negotiations, but by war.”

Unlike India, which still naively believes that it gained independence through nonviolence, not because a war-debilitated Britain could no longer hold on to its colonies, “new China” was born in blood after a long civil war. And it was built on blood, with Mao Zedong and other revolutionaries ever ready to employ force internally and externally. No sooner had the new China been established than it doubled its territorial size by forcibly absorbing Xinjiang and Tibet. Domestically, countless millions perished in witch-hunts, fratricidal killings and human-made disasters.
In fact, Mao attacked India after his “Great Leap Forward” created the worst famine in recorded world history, with the resulting damage to his credibility serving as a strong incentive for him to reassert his leadership through a war. The military victory over India indeed helped him to consolidate his grip on power, besides raising his international stature.

Yet, like a rape victim being scolded for inviting the attack, India was repeatedly rapped by some analysts during the anniversary debate for having brought on the Chinese aggression through “provocative” gestures and moves.

When the Chinese military marched hundreds of miles south to occupy the then-independent Tibet, bringing Han soldiers in large numbers to the Himalayan frontiers for the first time and setting the stage for China’s furtive encroachment on Indian territory, this supposedly did not constitute sufficient grounds for India to try to guard its undefended Himalayan borders. So when India belatedly deployed some units of its army, the action became, in Beijing’s words, a “forward policy” — a term lapped up by biddable analysts and still being bandied about.

India does not commemorate war anniversaries the way the United States does — with annual ceremonies honoring its fallen heroes. For example, at the exact time the Japanese began bombing Pearl Harbor 71 years earlier, commemorations were held last weekend at Pearl Harbor and memorials elsewhere, drawing thousands of Americans. India, in fact, has not built a single memorial to honor those who were martyred in 1962 or any of its other wars. China, by contrast, has a 1962 war memorial in Tibet and its Beijing military museum depicts India as the “aggressor.”
In this light, the 50th anniversary of what American scholar Roderick MacFarquhar has dubbed “Mao’s India War,” which killed 3,270 Indian troops and 725 Chinese, ought to have served as a time for reflection on its larger lessons. By baring key features of Beijing’s warfighting doctrine, the 42-day war indeed holds lasting lessons for India and other countries locked in territorial disputes with China.

Here are six of the 1962 principles China replicated in its subsequent aggressions: (1) take the adversary by surprise to maximize political and psychological shock; (2) strike only when the international and regional timing is opportune; (3) hit as fast and as hard as possible by unleashing “human wave” assaults; (4) be willing to take military gambles; (5) mask offense as defense; and (6) wage war with the political objective to “teach a lesson” — an aim publicly acknowledged by Beijing in the 1962 and 1979 attacks.

The Chinese strategy to choose an opportune moment to strike became evident before 1962 when China invaded Tibet in October 1950 while the world was preoccupied with the Korean war. China’s rapid success in seizing eastern Tibet emboldened it to intervene in Korea.
The classic case of opportunistic timing, however, was 1962: The attack coincided with the Cuban missile crisis, which threatened to trigger nuclear Armageddon and helped cut off India from potential sources of international support. But no sooner had the U.S. signaled an end to the faceoff with the Soviet Union by terminating Cuba’s quarantine than China declared a unilateral cease-fire. Such was the shrewd timing that throughout the Chinese attack, the international spotlight remained on the U.S.-Soviet showdown, not on China’s bloody invasion of India.

Similarly, China seized the Paracel Islands from South Vietnam in 1974 after the U.S. military withdrawal from there had created a strategic vacuum. It occupied the disputed Johnson Reef in the Spratlys in 1988 when Moscow’s support for Vietnam had petered out after the Soviets stopped using Cam Ranh Bay as a major forward deployment base. And in 1995, China seized Mischief Reef when the Philippines stood isolated after having forced the U.S. to close its major military bases at Subic Bay and elsewhere on the archipelago.

The 1979 attack on Vietnam occurred after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping convinced U.S. President Jimmy Carter during his Washington visit that a “limited military action” against Vietnam was essential to contain Soviet and Vietnamese influence in Southeast Asia and to force Hanoi to withdraw its forces from Cambodia. After 29 days, China ended its Vietnam invasion and withdrew, claiming Hanoi had been sufficiently chastised.

It is apparent that new China hews to ancient theorist Sun Tzu’s advice: “All warfare is based on deception. … Attack where the enemy is unprepared; sally out when it does not expect you. These are the strategist’s keys to victory.”

Chinese trader accused of busting Iran missile embargo

Washington: A Chinese businessman indicted in the United States over sales of missile parts to Iran is still making millions of dollars from the trade, say security officials who monitor compliance with Western and U.N. sanctions.  These officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the businessman, Li Fangwei, has earned at least $10 million from illegal sales to Iran since his indictment by the New York County District Attorney in 2009. Trade sanctions are at the heart of international efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear programme for fear it is for military ends - a suspicion Iran rejects. Li’s alleged activities may point to Iran’s resourcefulness in circumventing those sanctions and turn a spotlight on China’s ability to police its own export restrictions.

It is hard to quantify the contribution of foreign firms and individuals to Iran’s nuclear and missile programmes, but analysts believe some vital components are all but impossible for Tehran to produce at home.  Contacted by Reuters on Feb 4, Li said he continued to get commercial inquiries from Iran but only for legitimate merchandise, such as steel products. Li said his company, LIMMT, had stopped selling to Iran once the United States began sanctioning it several years ago.

He dismissed allegations by the security officials that he had used deception, including changes of company names, to supply Iran with Chinese and foreign-made parts such as high-grade alloys that can be used to enrich uranium and guidance devices suitable for missiles. “Sure, we did business with Iran, but we did not export the goods they said we did, missiles or whatever,” Li said. “We still get inquiries from Iranian clients, but we don’t respond to them.”

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Beijing was adhering to trade restrictions, including a U.N. ban on helping Iran build missiles that can deliver nuclear warheads. Officials from Iran, including at firms the security officials said were clients of Li and at the embassy in Beijing, did not respond to requests for comment. A Chinese bank which the security officials said Li used for Iranian business denied it had breached U.N. sanctions.

In 2006, the US Treasury barred Li from the US financial system for allegedly selling goods with potential military uses to Iran.

Three years later, the New York County District Attorney unsealed a fraud indictment against Li and his metals company LIMMT on suspicion they had used false names to process further payments for sales to Iran through several US banks. The US banks employed by Li were innocent of any wrongdoing because Li and other suspects had concealed their identities, the then District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau, said. On Feb 4, 2013, Li said that at the time of the indictment he had felt there was no point in saying anything because US courts and prosecutors “don’t listen to reason. It’s useless.”

Three weeks ago, on Feb. 11, the US State Department issued fresh sanctions against Li, saying he had “engaged in missile technology proliferation activities that require the imposition of missile sanctions”, and placing additional restrictions on any missile technology trade involving him.

A State Department official said Li had been sanctioned because of his “proliferation to Iran” since his 2009 indictment. Li did not respond to calls seeking comment on the Feb 11 action.

China reacted with irritation to the Feb. 11 measures. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the US step “seriously violates the norms of international relations and harms China’s interests” and urged the United States to immediately revoke “these irrational sanctions”.

China has no extradition treaty with Washington.

The security officials allege that since the 2009 indictment Li, working in concert with the Iranian embassy in Beijing, had supplied parts to firms that make Iranian missiles, in particular the U.N.-blacklisted Shahid Bakeri Industrial group (SBIG). SBIG did not reply to faxes and emails sent by Reuters for comment.

The goods allegedly supplied included 15 tonnes of high-grade aluminium alloy, more than 20 tonnes of ultra-high strength steel, and 1,700 kg of graphite cylinders. agencies

Communist Party of China and Peoples Oppression Army supply FN-6 MANPAD of the Free Syria Army

One one side Communist Party of China and Peoples Oppression Army support Bashar Al-Assad, on another side Communist Party of China and Peoples Oppression Army supply Free Syrian Army with MANPADS ;)  Strange power China

China likes to play both sides for profit. Chinese external agency Ministry of State Security has become a bidder in the global arms black market.

IDEX 2013 Chinese weapons

China copies and reverse engineers Israel's Harpy UAV

Back in 2005, under pressure from the US, IAI returned the Chinese Harpy UAV without performing any upgrades.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/a-harpy-compromise-0612/

PLA seems to have Shanzhai-ed the Harpy UAV

The actual IAI Harpy

BBC reporter detained investigating China's military secretive branch of Hacking

The Chinese want to know everything about others but do not want others to know anything about them.Selfish????

In a drab Shanghai office block, Unit 61398, China’s cyber rats

http://intelreport.mandiant.com/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf 

New found wealth has got a lot of confidence to Communist Party of China. They officially lie and deny all these " allegations"

Chinese communist Party closes its own citizens from free information flow over the internet but uses it for hacking others networks.

Mandiant claims Unit 61398:

• Employs hundreds, perhaps thousands of personnel
• Requires personnel trained in computer security and computer network operations
• Requires personnel proficient in the English language
• Has large-scale infrastructure and facilities in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai
• Was the beneficiary of special fibre optic communication infrastructure provided by state-owned enterprise China Telecom in the name of national defence.

This 12-story building on the outskirts of Shanghai is the headquarters of Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army. China’s defense ministry has denied that it is responsible for initiating digital attacks

 

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An explosive security report has pinned the majority of China-based attacks against the US to an army of hackers working for the People's Liberation Army out of a nondescript building on the outskirts of Shanghai. The report, by security firm Mandian, claims P.L.A Unit 61398 operates out of the complex and is responsible for a deluge of hacking traffic originating in and around it.Members of an infamous group known in most instances as Comment Crew or Shanghai Group were allegedly tracked to the P.L.A unit and the building.
It said public accounts of data breaches against US security firms, critical infrastructure, and industrial control system and SCADA operators to a persistent and government-backed hacking outfit operating out of the white Shanghai apartment block. "We believe that organisations in all industries related to China’s strategic priorities are potential targets of APT1’s (the group) comprehensive cyber espionage campaign," ther report stated. "While we have certainly seen the group target some industries more heavily than others, our observations confirm that APT1 has targeted at least four of the seven strategic emerging industries that China identified in its 12th Five Year Plan."
Mandiant researchers correlated data IP addresses, toolsets and social engineering information to pin the attacks to the hacking group. Beijing deniedthe accusations to the New York Times, and reiterated its affirmation that it is not involved in hacking which it considers illegal.
Chinese hackers have left a trail of victims including SCADA software outfits Telvent and Digital Bond, and security firm Alient Vault which had links to sensitive information on the US' defensive preparedness against hacking, according to the report.Hackers were also involved in the Shady Rathacking campaign which was billed as a massive global espionage attack that hit some 75 organisations, the report said. APT1 is one of scores of such collectives researchers say operate out of China at the behest of Beijing. It started operating and first came to the public light in 2006 when Symantec's Japan office described a host which was operated by a hacker known as Ugly Gorilla, who was tracked in the research.
"APT1 has a well-defined attack methodology, honed over years and designed to steal massive quantities of intellectual property. They begin with aggressive spear phishing, proceed to deploy custom digital weapons, and end by exporting compressed bundles of files to China – before beginning the cycle again," the report stated.They employ good English — with acceptable slang — in their socially engineered emails. They have evolved their digital weapons for more than seven years, resulting in continual upgrades as part of their own software release cycle. Their ability to adapt to their environment and spread across systems makes them effective in enterprise environments with trust relationships."
APT1 typically established a foothold in organisations via a well-written spear phishing attempt containing malicious pdf files within a compressed zip. It also used custom backdoors, thought to be previously unknown, of which 42 families were detailed by Mandiant."We usually detect multiple families of APT1 backdoors scattered around a victim network when APT1 has been present for more than a few weeks," the report said. The group's average infiltration lasted 356 days, with the longest stretching to four years and 10 months. The most amount of data stolen from a single organisation was 6.5 terabytes, extracted over 10 months.
The group was also unique in that it utilised unique attack vectors including GETMAIL which helped to steal email. Once the attackers compromised a network they were difficult to detect, the report said, because they connected to shared resources and could execute commands on other systems using Microsoft's psexec tool or Windows Task Scheduler."These actions are hard to detect because legitimate system administrators also use these techniques to perform actions around the network."

Beijing residents, state media fed up with persistent smog and government inaction

Yesterday the meter to the left went beyond index

BEIJING — It takes a lot to faze residents of a city as smoggy as Beijing. But after four straight days of air so hazardous it has defied government charts and labels, the disbelief and outrage are palpable.
Government vehicles have been pulled off the roads, production slowed at thousands of factories and children told to stay indoors. On Monday, even China’s state-run media — which usually avoid criticizing the government on such topics — ran reports and editorials acknowledging the problem and demanding solutions.

The haze that has settled over the capital highlights a thorny situation for China’s newly elevated slate of leaders, who have promised transparency and reform. Delivering those on such persistent, intractable problems as China’s environment, however, may prove difficult.
The trouble began last week with a growing fog over the city. By Friday, it had become hard to see office buildings just down the street. By Saturday, the smog had reached epic proportions, stinging residents’ eyes, causing respiratory problems and sparking a panicked run on stores selling masks and air filters.

Beijing’s municipal government reported air-quality-index levels as high as 500 Saturday night, on a scale by which U.S. experts consider anything above 150 to be unhealthy and anything from 301 to 500 to be hazardous.

But that was just half the story, because Chinese monitors stop recording at 500.
An air monitor run by the U.S. Embassy that sends out hourly tweets — and has been the subject of much official Chinese rancor in the past — showed the air quality topping out at 755, an astonishing level that the embassy called, for lack of a better description, “beyond index.”
And there it stayed, lingering between “hazardous” and “beyond index” until Monday night, when it was finally downgraded to “very unhealthy.”

Although the pollution crisis is possibly the worst in recent memory, some experts and environmental activists say it is the government’s reaction that has surprised them most.
The Communist Party’s main mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, ran a front-page editorial Monday calling the darkened sky a “suffocating siege.” China Daily said there should be a “healthy debate” about air quality and asked why there are not stricter regulations for cars, urban density and tree planting. Even the nationalistic Global Times called for more transparency and less fixation on the kind of economic growth that turns a blind eye to environmental consequences.
Some think the reversal of state media on the issue has been driven by public pressure, as well as the effect of new-media information, such as the U.S. Embassy’s air-quality tweets.


China’s officials and state media, however, have not explained their approach, limiting most of their discussion to what is causing the fog and to possible solutions.
Those answers have proved elusive. Official experts quoted in state media have blamed the crisis on factors including weather patterns, factories in neighboring provinces, increased numbers of cars, hilly terrain and more burning of coal for heat amid a cold snap.

Chinese Wolf 4x4 light armoured vehicle personnel carrier Shaanxi Baoji Special Vehicles

Japan War Games Defense Of Disputed Islands Against China

PLAN submarines hold confrontation drill for future wars with Chinese neighbours

December 13, 2012

The submarines of a submarine flotilla of the North China Sea Fleet under the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are conducting formation navigation training in the sea on December 13, 2012.

China confirms it's developing large transport aircraft

Yang Yujun, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense

BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) -- China is developing Y-20 large transport aircraft to meet its military modernization drive, a Ministry of Defense spokesman said Thursday.
　　"We are developing large transport aircraft on our own to improve the capability of air transport," spokesman Yang Yujun said at a monthly news briefing held days after photos of a Y-20 appeared online.

　　The advanced long-range carrier is being developed to serve the military modernization drive, as well as to meet demands in disaster relief work and humanitarian aid in emergency situations, he added.

　　The spokesman did not say when the Y-20s will be fitted out in force, only saying "the research and development of the large transport aircraft is going forward as planned."
　　There will be a series of steps before the carriers are fitted out, "as the technology is complicated," he added.

'He also added that Y-20 will be able to land and take off from PLAN Aircraft carriers and refuel with the help of PLAAF UFOs where were reported recently to being build in China on Chinese military forums.' 

Kung Fu Expert in China Beats Up Chinese Communist Party Mob of 50 Trying to Evict Him

Kung-fu Panda 

When 38-year-old Shen Jianzhong was faced with a mob of thugs trying to evict him, he asked himself what his hero, Bruce Lee, would do. The answer, according to a video that has attracted more than two million hits on the Chinese internet, is turn to kung fu.



For 20 years, Mr Shen had been practising kung fu, teaching himself Bruce Lee's system in his courtyard home in Bazhou, Hebei province.
Working in a local gym as a fitness coach, he is also the holder of a world record, at least according to an association in Hong Kong, for the most press-ups in a minute using a roller. "I am now training to break the record for most press-ups on a balance beam," he said.
At the end of October, Mr Shen was able to put his kung fu into action. For six months, a property developer had been trying to get his hands on Mr Shen's house.

"They called it a remodelling project, to turn our village into a town," he said.
"They wanted to tear down the whole street, and promised we would get a new house of the same size in two years, as well as rent to cover the interim.

True Chinese Hero

But I heard of people in a neighbouring village getting a much better deal, so we refused to sign."
At first, the property company stuck up posters warning of dire consequences for any families who held out. Then, Mr Shen said, when 70 of the 100 households had left, the threats escalated.
"This mob of thugs would block the street most days. They would pick on the women, threatening to kill their kids. Then people started tossing bricks through windows and letting off fireworks at night. Some people got beaten on the street."

On October 29, as Mr Shen went to work and his wife popped out for a packet of instant noodles, a mob of "30 to 50 men" materialised at their front door.
"My wife tried to close the door, but they pushed it back and she tripped over. That is how the fight started," said Mr Shen.
With a flurry of kicks and punches, he and his 18-year-old son, a fellow kung fu devotee, set about the attackers, rendering seven of them near unconscious in the hallway.
"It was self defence. I really cannot remember what kung fu skills I used.
It was quite messy. Only seven people were injured because the rest were scared and stayed outside. Some of them ran away," he said.

When the police arrived, however, they were little help, insisting that since the thugs were unarmed, it was Mr Shen and his family who were in the wrong. They urged the family to sign the contract.
Instead, the Shens posted their homemade video online, where it has gone viral as a rare David versus Goliath moment in the bleak fight against China's avaricious property barons.

They then fled, on the evening of November 21, to Beijing. Upon arriving in the capital, however, Mr Shen's son was arrested by the police, who said they would charge him with assault.
"I do not regret the fight, but I am worried about my son," said Mr Shen.
"I think they are trying to fit up him up with some crime. I am concerned that my actions will end up hurting him," he said, acknowledging that officials may try to emotionally blackmail him into signing over his lease.