China doesn't have a gorbachev. You don't have to worry about that.

is more a daydream-wish as reality.

islamists and democratic separatists are not a same.

islamist are complectly destroied, after military invetions of Shanghai 6 group and russian federaiton army.

democratic desidents are not realy for a war in their country, because it make their country(east-turkestan) more poore.

A time of Kashgar is long over but it think they can use a chance to became more indepence from chinese central goverment and their pressure against local people and their way of life.

(Afganistan is now under international rule and i dont think that Pacistan have enough power to invent itno war against China)

from other View can use India a chance for install a independent countries in a place of Tibet and South-east-turkkestan.

can be that mailnad China do spilt into 2 or 3 states (Canton, Midle-North-china, Manchuria with north-east Part of inner- mongolia. and south-west innermongolia became territories of Mongolian republic) But! i think it is realy crasy idea to split this chinese- mainland into many little independent Countries(i mean only inner-china, not tibet, inner-mongolia and manchuria). we do life now in global world and it is not good to make it in the future more splited as it is now.




hehe.. it was not Gorbatshew who have splited soviet union.

it were more local nationalists and mafia clans(rich guys like Chorodkovskij and others local bosses) wich wanted more indepence from central goverment and his justice, bancrupt of central goverment, inability of central goverment and soviet communistic party to react on new democratic situation and wish of the people to became more local indepence in their big, rich but central-ruled land.

if you want to see a person wich have killed Soviet Union look on Boris Jelzin and his business guys.

most of them are defacto little diktators in their countries now.

btw. a situation like in last 5 years of the soviet union can will comming in China in the next years.

a part of democratisation is only on begining in china. (chinas situation is now like in soviet-union in the first time between after dead of brenshnew and begin of jeltzins-rule in RF)

and democratisation is very dangerous for one state with so many different lifestyles, ethnics, cultures, sozial and economical differences and only one poltical agenda and party.

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not this again

i know, it's been recycled over and over again.

Does China have forcefields???

Watch video from FOX news.

http://www3.youtube.com/watch?v=-yVdwvodPo8



US to test missile-killing airborne laser

Military powers up 747-mounted beast

By Lester Haines
Published Monday 27th March 2006 12:52 GMT
The US is pressing on with its highly ambitious Airborne Laser (ABL) project - a 747-mounted ballistic missile killer previously slated for possible termination due to the program's "inability to meet cost and schedule targets", as Space.com puts it.

The joint Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin project - slated at $1.1bn, with $471.6m in the pot for 2006 - will now proceed towards a 2008 full-fat test on a missile target.

The ABL is a three-laser set-up with two low-powered, solid state lasers dedicated to tracking the missile and testing for atmospheric distortion, and the main chemical laser weapon. The whole shooting match is housed in a computer-controlled turret aboard a Boeing 747 which is expected to fly a figure-of-eight pattern over any potential launch site. Once onboard infrared sensors detect a launch, the computer automatically positions the turret at the optimum position for a kill.


That's the idea, anyway. This year the programme expects to wrap up ground-based "testing of the solid-state lasers for missile tracking and atmospheric-distortion correction" leading to flight tests before the end of 2006. Boeing vice president and ABL program director Greg Hyslop rather marvellously explained that during the latter "the lasers will be fired at a military NKC-135 aircraft with a picture of a ballistic missile painted on its fuselage".

Quite how much of the budget is being committed to ballistic missile artists is not noted, but the project directors will be hoping the thing goes off with a bang. Despite the lifting of the threat of sudden death, the ABL must still meet certain "knowledge points" which allow the guys paying the bills to keep track of progress, the ABL's overall director, Air Force Colonel John Daniels, explained.

The principal knowledge point will be, naturally, the 2008 missile-busting test, after which the ABL's fate will be decided. It is in direct competition with the Kinetic Energy Interceptor - a missile-based Northrop Grumman Corporation and Raytheon Company collaboration consisting of of a "mobile launcher, an interceptor and a command and control battle management and communication system that is housed in a transportable trailer".

Over at DARPA, meanwhile, they're keeping quiet regarding progress on the High Energy Laser Area Defense System (HELADS) programme, which - as we reported last year - promised to get a 150kW, fridge-sized weapon in the air by 2007. ®

source: US to Test Missle Killing Laser

Also, this is how spread the US.

hah none in China and Russia.

also the bases you have to figure out if they are small or large installations. If the base is large enough to actually do something. Most are probably just politcal tools and nothing more.

Most of them are probably just small, but the idea is that you only need a handful of troops to maintain a base till many more can come fly in. Bases like Canada are prolly just there for emergency and don't have too many people, maybe a couple hundred. Whereas Japan and South Korean forces prolly number in the thousands.