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Maintenance and repair work on the missiles’ ground installations are the main focus of the latest contract. Taiwan has deployed 350 Patriot missiles, with agreements governing not just the missile systems, but also separate aspects such as technical support, maintenance, and transport to the U.S. for repairs. Taiwan was also planning to add an estimated 300 PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) systems in 2025 and 2026, which are larger and have a longer reach.

Taiwan signs new Patriot air defense deal with US

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Seuraavaksi odotellaan ostoilmoitusta iippojen iron domesta. Sinänsä heidän ostokset on lähinnä suuntautunut jenkkilään.

 

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According to Yang Sheng and Leng Shumei in Global Times, Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged efforts to break new ground in the development of the country's military weaponry and equipment, and contribute to the realization of the goals set for the centennial of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the Xinhua News Agency reported on Octoberv26. Xi, chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), made the remarks at a military conference on weaponry and equipment-related work, which was held in Beijing on October 25 and 26.

Xi Jinping called for efforts to accelerate the implementation of tasks for the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) and advance the building of a modernized management system for weaponry and equipment.

CMC Vice Chairman Zhang Youxia also attended the conference. Speaking at the event, Zhang stressed efforts to create strong synergy in weaponry and equipment development, focus on the needs of national security, pay close attention to practical military preparedness, boost sci-tech self-reliance and self-improvement, aim for the world's top class, and speed up the modernization of weaponry and equipment.

Song Zhongping, a Chinese military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times on Tuesday that the core of Xi's speech coincides with China's targets to realize informatization, mechanization and "intelligentization" ahead of the 100th anniversary in 2027 of the PLA's founding and basically complete the modernization of China's national defense and armed forces by 2035. Facing the current intense security situation, China has to build a strong military to get well prepared for possible future wars, Song noted. "So the PLA needs to aim for becoming a world-class military force, the weaponry that China develops should at least empower its military with the strength to defeat the world's most powerful and most advanced military force in the region."

Chinese President Xi calls to break new ground in weaponry

According to Yang Sheng and Leng Shumei in Global Times, Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged efforts to break new ground in the development of the count

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China is likely using an unused civilian airport just across the Strait of Taiwan to conduct its overflights near the island, with satellite imagery on different occasions showing military aircraft parked on the ground that correspond with Taiwanese military reports.

Shantou-Waisha airport, less than 220 miles across the strait from the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, has played host to rotating detachments of People’s Liberation Army aircraft since at least October 2020, according to satellite imagery provided to Defense News by Planet Labs.

The mixed civilian and military airport, which used to service the city of Shantou, ceased commercial operations in 2011 when the nearby Jieyang-Chaoshan airport opened to become the city’s civilian airport.

The October 2020 imagery showed two Shaanxi KQ-200 anti-submarine warfare aircraft on what used to be the civil parking apron, with the type’s distinctive tail-mounted anomaly detector boom clearly visible.

Satellite images show China may be using closed civilian airport to launch Taiwan overflights

Shantou-Waisha airport has played host to rotating detachments of Chinese military aircraft since at least October 2020, according to satellite imagery provided to Defense News.

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Kiinan talous pykii toista kuukautta putkeen. Perinteisesti näissä tilanteissa on kivitetty japanin lähetystö pekingissä ja luotu kuvaa ulkoisesta uhasta.

 

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The trial of eight pro-democracy activists, including Apple Daily newspaper founder Jimmy Lai, who were charged over their roles in an unauthorised Tiananmen vigil last year began on Monday.

Lai and the seven others, including Lee Cheuk-yan, the former chairman of the now defunct Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, face charges of organising, participating and inciting others to take part in the unauthorised candlelight vigil commemorating the bloody 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square

Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai goes on trial over Tiananmen vigil

Eight pro-democracy activists including the prominent businessman had been charged under national security laws

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The US secretary of state has clashed with his Chinese opposite number, saying the US will provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself as China warned it must end its interference on the island.

Antony Blinken also urged China to live up to its responsibilities on the climate emergency, pointing out it was the largest carbon emitter.

The hour-long meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome was described by US officials as “exceptionally candid” but productive, and would help lay the groundwork for a virtual summit between the US president, Joe Biden, and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, later this year.

Blinken clashes with China over US support for Taiwan

Beijing warns against interference, as US secretary of state also urges China to meet climate responsibilities

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The rules would apply to transfers that involve “sensitive personal information” of at least 10,000 people or any company that handles information on more than 1 million people. They give no details of what is important or sensitive.

Rules imposed earlier prohibit companies from storing information about Chinese citizens abroad.

That prompted complaints that global companies are put at a disadvantage because they can't combine information from China with other countries, while Chinese competitors can collect all their data at their headquarters.

A separate law that takes effect Monday establishes security standards, prohibits companies from disclosing information without customer permission and tells them to limit how much they collect. Unlike data protection laws in Western countries, the Chinese rules say nothing about limiting government or ruling Communist Party access to personal information.

China tightens control over company data with transfer rules

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A US Navy nuclear submarine that was severely damaged in an accident while submerged in the disputed South China Sea last month struck an uncharted underwater mountain, the Navy said Monday.

The US Navy regularly conducts operations in the South China Sea to challenge China's disputed territorial claims on small islands, reefs and outcrops, to the irritation of Beijing.

The 7th Fleet, which operates in the western Pacific, said an investigation had concluded that the USS Connecticut smashed into a geological formation and not another vessel on October 2.

"The investigation determined USS Connecticut grounded on an uncharted seamount while operating in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region," a 7th Fleet spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

Beijing claims almost the entire South China Sea, parts of which are also claimed by four Southeast Asian countries as well as the self-ruled island of Taiwan.

The Navy confirmed the incident a week after it took place, only saying that the Connecticut, a nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine, "struck an object while submerged."

But Beijing on Tuesday accused Washington of failing to provide timely and detailed information on the incident, complaining of a "lack of transparency and lack of responsibility from the US."

Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said China urges the US to provide an explanation of the vessel's "navigational intentions, the specific location of the accident, whether it was in the exclusive economic zone or territorial waters of any country, and whether it caused any nuclear leak or damage to the ocean environment."

Washington should "stop sending warships and military aircraft to provoke trouble and make shows of force," Wang said, warning that "this type of accident will only become more frequent" without any change in US actions.

The 7th Fleet said there would be further deliberation on "whether follow-on actions, including accountability, are appropriate."

USNI News, published by the US Naval Institute, a thinktank close to the Navy, reported that there were some moderate and minor injuries in the accident.

It said the crash damaged the sub's forward ballast tanks and forced it to sail on the surface for a week back to Guam for repairs.

The ship's nuclear plant was not damaged, the publication said.

US Navy finds damaged nuclear sub hit underwater mountain

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President Xi Jinping declared in July that those who get in the way of China’s ascent will have their “heads bashed bloody against a Great Wall of steel.” The People’s Liberation Army Navy is churning out ships at a rate not seen since World War II, as Beijing issues threats against Taiwan and other neighbors. Top Pentagon officials have warned that China could start a military conflict in the Taiwan Strait or other geopolitical hot spots sometime this decade.

Analysts and officials in Washington are fretting over worsening tensions between the United States and China and the risks to the world of two superpowers once again clashing rather than cooperating. President Joe Biden has said that America “is not seeking a new cold war.” But that is the wrong way to look at U.S.-China relations. A cold war with Beijing is already under way. The right question, instead, is whether America can deter China from initiating a hot one.

Beijing is a remarkably ambitious revanchist power, one determined to make China whole again by “reuniting” Taiwan with the mainland, turning the East and South China Seas into Chinese lakes, and grabbing regional primacy as a stepping-stone to global power. It is also increasingly encircled, and faces growing resistance on many fronts—just the sort of scenario that has led it to lash out in the past.

How War With China Begins

A cold war is already under way. The question is whether Washington can deter Beijing from initiating a hot one.

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China urges families to keep stocks of daily necessities ahead of winter

The Chinese government has told families to keep daily necessities in stock in case of emergencies, after COVID-19 outbreaks and unusually heavy rains that caused a surge in vegetable prices raised concerns about supply shortages. The commerce ministry directive late on Monday stirred some...

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Hong Kong’s top court has quashed attempts by the city’s government to prosecute people for rioting or illegal assembly even without being present at the scene – a ruling lawyers described as a landmark.

The five-judge panel in Hong Kong’s court of final appeal, headed by chief justice Andrew Cheung, unanimously rejected an earlier ruling by a lower appeal court that people, such as supporters, could be criminally liable without being actually present under the common law doctrine of “joint enterprise”.

Top Hong Kong court rules against government bid to expand riot prosecutions

Lawyers say ruling is ‘highly significant’ and likely to impact future prosecutions amid intensifying national security crackdown

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A new report says China’s nuclear arsenal is likely to be far bigger than the Pentagon predicted last year—the latest sign of what Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley is calling “one of the largest shifts in global geostrategic power that the world has witnessed.”

Released Wednesday, this year’s edition of “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China” says China will likely have 700 operational warheads by 2027 and 1,000—or more—by 2030, “exceeding the pace and size that DOD projected in 2020.”

For China, 2027 is a publicly acknowledged milestone goal and “one where they say that the PLA’s, capabilities should be networked into a system of systems for what they refer to as intelligentized warfare,” said a senior defense official who briefed Pentagon reporters on the new estimates before their release, on the condition of anonymity. “If they realize those goals for 2027, that would provide them with more credible military operations in a Taiwan contingency.”

“They often talk about ‘to deter’ or ‘to compel Taiwan to abandon moves toward independence’,” the official said of China’s public statements on Taiwan, adding that Beijing appears to be “preparing for a contingency to unify by force also, and wanting to be able to to deter, to delay or otherwise, you know, to counter third-party intervention.”

China Likely to Have ‘At Least’ 1,000 Nukes by 2030, Pentagon Estimates

Beijing’s new capabilities could embolden a Taiwan attack—but that’s not likely within the next two years, Milley says.

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Good luck upgrading your network any time in the next year or two: key vendors Arista and Juniper have both warned they're waiting up to 80 weeks – aka 560 days, taking us to some time in May 2023 – to get their hands on some components.

News of those very long lead times came to light in both vendors' recent earnings announcements and follows Cisco and HPE hiking prices due to industry-wide pandemic-related supply chain difficulties.

Juniper announced preliminary numbers last week. Q3 2021 revenue reached $1,188.8 million – up four points year over year. The company reported its order backlog is now over a billion dollars larger than it was at the end of FY2020.

Executive veep and CFO Ken Miller told investors that elevated supply chain costs "are hitting us now". The company has "purchase orders throughout all of next year. In some cases, out 50 weeks, in other cases, out 80 weeks, in an attempt to secure supply."

"We are expecting the supply chain costs to remain elevated throughout next year," Miller added. He did, however, offer some hope of price reductions "maybe late next year".

Arista and Juniper hike prices due to supply chain problems

Cost of some supplies is up 200 per cent, so vendors start 'protecting margins'

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Voitte arvata miten käy kun konflikti leimahtaa.

 

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China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has responded with mild indignation to the USA's decision to revoke the operating licence that allowed China Telcom to operate in the land of the free.

In a Wednesday statement, the Ministry accused the USA of using national security as a pretext for banning Chinese companies, complained that evidence of China Telecom's alleged misdeeds has not been furnished, and that the ban breaches international trade rules.

The Ministry also objected to the decision on grounds that banning businesses without evidence isn't consistent with the usual practice of free market economies and called on the US government to rescind its decision.

A machine translation of the statement concludes as follows: "China will continue to take necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises."

Beijing lashes USA's China Telecom ban – but quite gently

Rolls out usual lines about national security being pretext for competitive action, more strident voices keep quiet

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Xi Jinping’s to-do list has seen a lot of ticks in recent months: more flights into Taiwan’s defence zone; suppressing dissenting voices in Hong Kong; clipping the wings of tech barons; outlawing the out-of-school tutoring industry. The list goes on.

However, one key initiative – introducing a local property tax – has attracted fewer headlines but is apparently so controversial within China’s ruling Communist party that even Xi is still only able to deal in trial schemes rather than wholesale change.

The decision to pilot the tax on all types of property in selected regions for five years – most likely important cities such as Shenzhen and Hangzhou– was taken last month. It is seen as vital to reforming the country’s bloated property sector, a concrete-and-glass divide between China’s haves and have-nots which has been personified by the woes of the heavily indebted developer China Evergrande.

The property tax is controversial because local governments rely on land sales for at least 40% of their revenues. This has encouraged an aggressive sales policy, aided and abetted by property developers happy to take on massive debts to buy the land and build ever more apartment blocks for buyers convinced the market is a one-way bet.
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This decades-long party saw China’s property developers build a debt mountain of around $5tn, according to analysts at Nomura, before Beijing called time by restricting what they could borrow. When the music stopped, Evergrande was stranded on the dancefloor with $300bn of debt, and it faces its latest pay-up-or-default deadline on 10 November.

Speculation nation: Can Xi Jinping’s property tax deflate China’s housing bubble?

Analysis: President faces an uphill battle to undo a system that has led to a bloated property sector

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China's Ministry of State Security released details this week of three alleged security breaches that saw sensitive data illegally transferred abroad.

State-sponsored Xinhua News Agency described the breaches as "endangering the security of important data" and said by disclosing them, the Ministry sought to build awareness of non-traditional security and, by doing so, better maintain national security.

The announcement, which deliberately coincides with the seventh anniversary of the country's anti-espionage law, described airline data stolen by an overseas intelligence agency, shipping data collected by a consulting firm that provided it to a foreign spy agency, and the construction of weather devices to transfer sensitive meteorological data abroad. It is unclear whether one or more foreign intelligence agencies conducted the alleged attacks, or if the actions were linked.

"Data security is related to national security and public interest, and is an important aspect of non-traditional security," reads a machine translation of the Xinhua piece, which goes on to encourage the public to report suspicious events to authorities.

The Middle Kingdom's anti-espionage law came into effect in 2014 and has been amended since. An April 2021 change imposed new responsibilities on groups and organizations, making it clear the onus is on the public to watch out for, prevent, and report foreign espionage activity.

"The regulations … clarify that agencies, groups, enterprises and institutions and other social organizations have the main responsibility for the unit's anti-espionage security prevention work," stated the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), People’s Daily Online.

Chinese journalists Zhixin Wan and Zichen Wang have pointed out that foreign media have all but ignored the attacks.

"Whereas the US and other Western security sources are not infrequent contributors to Western media reports on China, usually detailing what's described as Chinese influence, threats, espionage, or hacking, the same simply can't be said of this side. Also, press content with those intelligence sources is almost always quite prominent in the news," wrote the duo.

China claims foreign spies stole data from three local orgs

Chinese media wonders why it hasn't been reported in the West - hang on, you're reading this ...

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Arista and Juniper hike prices due to supply chain problems

Cost of some supplies is up 200 per cent, so vendors start 'protecting margins'

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Kaveri kertoili jo pari kuukautta sitten että Juniperi ei pysty lupaamaan minkäänlaista toimitusaikaa... "enemmän kuin 30 viikkoa". Joitain yksittäiskappaleita voi löytyä varastoista. Ebayssä on kuulemma myyjänmarkkinat...

 

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Kiina | Kiina on rakentanut autiomaahan amerikkalaiskohteita esittäviä maalitauluja

Taklamakanin aavikkoa on käytetty ballististen ohjusten testauspaikkana.

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"Kiina on rakentanut aavikolle Xinjiangissa maalitauluja, jotka esittävät yhdysvaltalaisia sota-aluksia, kuten lentotukialuksia, paljastuu satelliittikuvista. Uutistoimisto Reutersin mukaan maalitaulut kertovat Kiinan haluista kehittää iskukykyään Yhdysvaltojen lentotukialuksia vastaan.

Kiina on suhtautunut vastenmielisyydellä Yhdysvaltojen sota-aluksiin lähialueillaan. Maiden välit ovat heikentyneet Taiwanin tilanteen vuoksi. Kiina on uhitellut kapinallisena maakuntanaan pitävää Taiwania sotilaallisesti. Yhdysvallat on puolestaan tukenut Taiwania sotilaallisesti.

Lentotukialuksen lisäksi aavikolle on rakennettu maalitauluiksi ainakin kaksi Arleigh Burke -luokan amerikkalaishävittäjän mallia. Taklamakanin aavikkoa on käytetty ballististen ohjusten testauspaikkana. Kiina on kehittänyt myös omia lentotukialuksiaan. Lentotukialukset ovat merkittävä sotilaallinen voima, jos valtio aikoo toimia kaukana omilta rajoiltaan."

 

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M60A3

According to information published by the Liberty Times on November 5, 2021, Taiwan will start next year a program to upgrade its fleet of M60A3 Main Battle Tanks (MBTs). The M60 is an American-made MBT that was manufactured by the company General Dynamics. The M60 entered service with the US Army in 1960 and from October 1962 the tank was succeeded in production under the name of M60A1. The M60A3 is an improved version of the M60A1. The first M60A3 MBTs were delivered to the Taiwanese army between 1995 and 2000.

Taiwan to start upgrade of its fleet of M60A3 main battle tanks in 202

According to information published by the Liberty Times on November 5, 2021, Taiwan will start next year a program to upgrade its fleet of M60A3 Main Battl

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The M60A3 is an improved version of the M60A1 and some of the improvements include the add-on of a stabilization system, the RISE (Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable) engine, and the smoke grenade launchers that were first fitted to the M60A1 some years ago. The main improvements are in the fire-control system. A Raytheon Systems Company laser range-finder with a maximum range of 5,000 m replaces the optical range-finder and a solid-state computer replaces the mechanical computer.

 

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Taiwan says China can blockade its key harbours, warns of 'grave' threat

China's armed forces are capable of blockading Taiwan's key harbours and airports, the island's defence ministry said on Tuesday, offering its latest assessment of what it describes as a "grave" military threat posed by its giant neighbour. China has never renounced the use of force to bring...

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Taiwan's government agencies face around five million cyber attacks and probes a day, an official said Wednesday, as a report warned of increasing Chinese cyber warfare targeting the self-ruled island.

Taiwanese officials have previously said the island faces millions of cyber attacks every month, with around half of them believed to originate from China.

Speaking in parliament, cyber security department director Chien Hung-wei said Taiwan's government network faces "five million attacks and scans a day".

A scan in cyber security refers to an attempt to locate weaknesses in a server.

"We are strengthening the government's defensive measures and collecting relevant data for analysis in a bid to stop the attacks when they are initiated," Chien told lawmakers.

Taipei has accused Beijing of ramping up cyber attacks since the 2016 election of President Tsai Ing-wen, who views the island as a sovereign nation.

Beijing views democratic Taiwan as part of its own territory and has vowed to one day seize the island, by force if necessary.

In a report released on Tuesday, Taiwan's defence ministry warned that China has been "vigorously enhancing" its cyber warfare capabilities as part of the strategy to bring the island to heel.

The ministry's information security and protection centre detected and handled around 1.4 billion "anomalies" from 2019 to August 2021 to prevent potential hacking, according to the report.

In July, Taiwan's police launched an investigation after the Line messaging app reported abnormal account activities to the authorities.

Local media said the hacked accounts belonged to "high ranking officials" in various government branches.

Last year, Taiwanese authorities said Chinese hackers infiltrated at least 10 Taiwan government agencies and gained access to around 6,000 email accounts in an attempt to steal data.

Taiwan government faces 5 million cyber attacks daily: official

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