Bharat Rakshak

China: The new Big Oil
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/17/news/in ... 2009081707

J-10B with new DSI air intake under test.
http://top.jschina.com.cn/top81bbs/uplo ... _98511.jpg

China's Economy Will Surpass Japan's This Year http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/wealthofnations/archive/2009/08/04/china-s-economy-will-surpass-japan-s-this-year.aspx The rise of China wasn’t new, either, of course. But the speed at which the shift is taking place, and the fact that China has remained...

A fine balancing act http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14045372&source=features_box_main CHINESE growth was already the envy of the world. Now recession-stricken countries will be turning an even brighter green. On Thursday July 16th new figures showed China’s GDP gro...

(1.1x)^y=4x

my math shows that it takes 14 years to reach 4 times of original size, assuming 10% growth each year

Urumqi: criticism and credit for the Chinese police http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peterfoster/100002643/urumqi-criticism-and-credit-for-the-chinese-police/ A note on the performance of the Chinese police during this crisis: from what I’ve seen they have been highly disciplined and professional u...

^^^ This fact is not highlighted often, but China is aging fast. Their median age is already 32+ which is quite high for a developing country. India, in contrast has a median age of 26. So, if the Chinese are to wait for another few decades, not only will the sex ratio hurt their demographics, but ...

When China Rules the World
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b9c0c852-56de ... abdc0.html

X post. Good arguments from boths sides of whether China's growth is sustainable http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20952 All this talk of China being the preeminant economy is nonsense. China is seriously overbuilt for it`s 250 mil middle class now, and is on it`s way to being ludicrou...

The Color of China

http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20952

Can this be real?
Goldman Sachs Raises China Economic Growth Forecasts: 8.3% for 2009 and 10.9% for 2010
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... nSHaqsTGx0

Economist is kissing up some a$$ here ...

Bamboo shoots of recovery
http://www.economist.com/finance/displa ... tures_box2

China's Pipe Dream
http://theasiandefence.blogspot.com/200 ... ngine.html

China Showing Signs of Recovery? It is risky indeed for someone like me, on the other side of the world, commenting on a country with spotty economic data ( a function of size and maturity of its information gathering apparatus, as well as possible intent to put lipstick on pigs :oops: ) to take is...

Hmmm clean config and maybe half a tank. Not bad for a chinese plane but nothing to write home about. Comparision with F-22 is hilarious. F-16A/B more like it. I do think the J-10 is a decent upgrade from J-7. But probably that's about it. I wouldn't put it in the same level of F-16A/B. n63WWYU4KIU

shiv wrote:And - for a comparison of agility and an exercise in monotony..

Ta Daaaaa

Yup, look at the clumsy climb and turn. No doubt the J-10 is not as good as the chinese claim