China plans to grow larger with the help of 'next generation' aircraft carriers

[isreal?]

[QUOTE]China unveiled plans to build more aircraft carriers after commissioning its first last year, as the country extends its influence amid territorial disputes with neighbors including Japan and Vietnam.
Future aircraft carriers will carry more fighter jets than the Liaoning, Rear Admiral Song Xue told foreign military attaches yesterday in Beijing, according to the official Xinhua New Agency. The carrier was built around a Soviet-era hull and began trials at sea last year.

The remarks signal that the People’s Liberation Army will push ahead with a modernization plan under which defense spending has more than doubled since 2006. China has been more assertive in pressing sovereignty claims against Japan as well as Vietnam and the Philippines in the South China Sea.
“This only adds publicly to what many believed to be the case: that the Liaoning is a training or ‘starter’ carrier and eventually China would build larger and more capable ones,” Taylor Fravel, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who focuses on China’s relations with its neighbors, said by e-mail. “It suggests that today’s PLA is much more confident than in the past regarding its willingness to talk about future military programs.”
The carrier announcement came as Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited China. He and Chinese counterpart Fang Fenghui said April 22 they want to expand military ties.

At the same time, tensions between China and Japan have escalated over islands in the East China Sea claimed by both sides. Yesterday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed to use force if necessary to defend the islands, called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan.
China and Japan each issued formal protests yesterday over the presence of each other’s vessels in waters around the islands, which lie in an area rich in fish and natural gas. China also protested after members of Abe’s government visited a Tokyo shrine seen in Asia as a symbol of wartime aggression.
“Relations between China and Japan are at their worst since diplomatic ties were established in 1972,” Rumi Aoyama, a professor of Chinese studies at Waseda University in Tokyo, said yesterday. “At this point, it’s about maintaining lines of communication to make sure things don’t get worse.”
Eight Chinese vessels were in waters administered by Japan as of 3 p.m. yesterday, the Japanese Coast Guard said. Xinhua said Chinese surveillance ships “drove away” Japanese fishing boats in the waters, citing the State Oceanic Administration.
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[kasmoke]

China will grow larger.

[Pinecleandog]

[QUOTE=kasmoke;40398082]China will grow larger.[/QUOTE]

They're going to take over the world!!!

[Nitro836]

Over 1000 million people can only live so compactly.

[AtomicWaffle]

[QUOTE=kasmoke;40398082]China will grow larger.[/QUOTE]

[quote=Bulldozer]China unveiled plans[/quote]

"We have big plans!"

[Mrglitch2000]

[QUOTE=AtomicWaffle;40398308]"We have big plans!"[/QUOTE]

And as they sail the seas...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvSM1VKW0lM[/media]

[Archangel125]

If China's 'big plans' involve fucking with Japan or India, I'm going to be pissed.

[Awesomecaek]

[QUOTE=archangel125;40398347]If China's 'big plans' involve fucking with Japan or India, I'm going to be pissed.[/QUOTE]

Well China seems quite interested into the space thing so they might be the not lazy ones and colonize mars first or something.

[gnisasas]

Overcompensating much China?

[ScottyWired]

[QUOTE=Mrglitch2000;40398340]And as they sail the seas...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvSM1VKW0lM[/media][/QUOTE]

There was a mistranslation, the aircraft carrier was just an analogy for the size of their tanks.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8dfpGcR.jpg[/IMG]

[DaCommie1]

[QUOTE=AtomicWaffle;40398308]"We have big plans!"[/QUOTE]

Building the Chinese Empire

You also jacked the line I was going to use, dammit.

[Maloof?]

Getting larger?

Good thing I like the big targets

[cucumber]

why dont they improve life quality of their people, but double military expenses.

[WhiteFox08]

It will look real nice when it's done.

[tgp1994]

Built to spec

[thumb]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/UPH9iKpM-fk/0.jpg[/thumb]

[editline]24th April 2013[/editline]

Did we miss any other lines

[The Dude]

[QUOTE=tgp1994;40399353]Built to spec

[thumb]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/UPH9iKpM-fk/0.jpg[/thumb]

[editline]24th April 2013[/editline]

Did we miss any other lines[/QUOTE]

It'll look real nice when its done

[Araknid]

[b]BUILDING THE CHINESE EMPIRE[/b]

[skoinks]

[QUOTE=Nitro836;40398248]Over 1000 million people can only live so compactly.[/QUOTE]

China is practically empty. With the exception of Eastern China (where all the modern stuff is).

[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Population_density_of_China_by_first-level_administrative_regionsEnglish.png[/t]

[Phaselancer]

Oh dear, I remember reading about a post where chine had moved some troops over India's border already.

[Deunan]

[QUOTE=Stopper;40399578]China is practically empty. With the exception of Eastern China (where all the modern stuff is).

[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Population_density_of_China_by_first-level_administrative_regionsEnglish.png[/t][/QUOTE]

yeah, it's also practically a desert in the empty places.

[Used Car Salesm]

They do understand they have to actually build ships, not just build their navy out of secondhand Russian ships, right?

Their first carrier will be an exact Nimitz class replica downloaded from TPB and 3d printed in a shipyard.

[Apocalypsewaffle]

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;40400770]They do understand they have to actually build ships, not just build their navy out of secondhand Russian ships, right?

Their first carrier will be an exact Nimitz class replica downloaded from TPB and 3d printed in a shipyard.[/QUOTE]

Practically all of China's weapons are knockoffs / copies / heavily influenced by other designs. It's what they're good at.

[yawmwen]

[QUOTE=Stopper;40399578]China is practically empty. With the exception of Eastern China (where all the modern stuff is).

[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Population_density_of_China_by_first-level_administrative_regionsEnglish.png[/t][/QUOTE]

"china is practically empty...except in half the country where it isn't!"

[editline]24th April 2013[/editline]

[img]http://goldendome.org/Brahmasthan/UsaPopulationDensity2000.jpg[/img]

the usa is practically empty too!

[editline]24th April 2013[/editline]

[img]https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFGXmtkzy_K8Gj7MqTtbNH6lv4warewOVyxethm3zz4f-eU4jznA[/img]

so is russia

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=wraithcat;40399783]yeah, it's also practically a desert in the empty places.[/QUOTE]

Tibet and Inner Mongolia is fairly habitable.

[[MWRP] Sherlock]

[QUOTE=kasmoke;40398082]China will grow larger.[/QUOTE]
When anyone read the above quote/the title, did ANYONE think of "Command and Conquer: Generals"?
Best RTS game in my opinion

Edit:
Derp, that must've been the joke

Edit again:
I'm so stupid. The whole thread makes CNC references.

[editline]27th April 2013[/editline]

Also, not the People's Liberation Army.
The Global Liberation Army (GLA)

The CnC is commandeering this thread!

[IKTM]

[QUOTE=yawmwen;40403274]
[img]https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFGXmtkzy_K8Gj7MqTtbNH6lv4warewOVyxethm3zz4f-eU4jznA[/img]

so is russia[/QUOTE]

Yeah, Russia [I]is[/I] pretty empty.

[mastermaul]

[QUOTE=yawmwen;40403274][img]http://goldendome.org/Brahmasthan/UsaPopulationDensity2000.jpg[/img]

the usa is practically empty too![/QUOTE]

Except the vast majority of the United States is perfectly livable, or would be with some basic development.

There's still plenty of room for population expansion in the US.

[Reaver1991]

I assume this in reaction to the US's pivot towards Asia. They don't want to lose their dominance of the region.

[DaCommie1]

[QUOTE=yawmwen;40403274]"china is practically empty...except in half the country where it isn't!"

[editline]24th April 2013[/editline]

[img]http://goldendome.org/Brahmasthan/UsaPopulationDensity2000.jpg[/img]

the usa is practically empty too!

[editline]24th April 2013[/editline]

[img]https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFGXmtkzy_K8Gj7MqTtbNH6lv4warewOVyxethm3zz4f-eU4jznA[/img]

so is russia[/QUOTE]

Bitch, please:
[img_thumb]http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/as-sa/97-550/vignettes/img/map-2006-pop-density-canada-sz01-en.gif[/img_thumb]

[shian]

C&C generals was the best rts game made by EA