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(1) Emmanuelle Tzeng, Chen Yi-wei and Sofia Wu, China's 1st aircraft carrier to be launched by year's end: spy head. Central News Agency, Apr 25, 2011.
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201104250039
("Fielding questions from ruling Kuomintang Legislator Lin Yu-fang, [National Security Bureau Director-General] Tsai [Teh-sheng 蔡得胜] durther said the planes to be deployed on the Varyag would likely be China's home-made jet fighters patterned after Russia's SU-33. * * * Lin said after the legislative hearing that most Western media outlets believe that China has dubbed its home-made, carrier-based fighter the J-15.")

(2) Kathrin Hille, Chinese Warship Makes Regional Waves. Financial Times, Apr 27, 2011
("Chinese military sources are reluctant to address the potential combat functions, but independent military analysts say that an operational carrier would bring China closer to its goal of air superiority over Taiwan")

My comment:
(a) The second clause of the quotation seems to suggest that Taiwan still keeps the upper hand--a power imbalance that has been the case I heard, since communists took over the mainland.
(b) There is no need to read the rest of FT report.


-------------------------------Separately
(1) 中国拟独力建造空间站引起外界关注. VOA Chinese, Apr 27, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110427-CHINA-TO-BUILD-ITS-OWN-SPACE-STATION-120771039.html

Note: The report cites
Tania Branigan and Ian Sample, China unveils rival to International Space Station. Less than a decade ago, it fired its first human being into orbit. Now, Beijing is working on a multi-capsule outpost in space. But what is the political message of the Tiangong 'heavenly palace'? Guardian, Apr 26, 2011.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/26/china-space-station-tiangong?INTCMP=SRCH

There is no need to read the Guardian report, which essentially says nothing.

(2) 洛桑桑盖当选西藏流亡政府总理. VOA Chinese, Apr 27, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110427-TIBET-ELECTIONS-120764524.html
("著名的哈佛大学法学院的学者洛桑桑 * * * 赢得世界各地数万藏人的55%的选票")

(3) 大连为舍命救人的佐藤充设基金会. BBC Chinese, Apr 27, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2011/04/110427_china_japan_hero.shtml

Note:
(a) The report cites
蘋果日報 - 2011-03-22 - 日漢捨身　救 20中國女工. Youtube, Uploaded by Littlemudfrog on Mar 21, 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Xn9oPKfp0&feature=related

At 56 sec to 1 min 5 sec, he was shown standing on top of a roof, pacing and observing the tsumani around him.
(b) 佐藤 充 Mitsuru SATO
* 満つ; 充つ 【みつ】 (v5t,vi): "to be full"  Jim Breen's online Jpanese dictionary

(4) 程嘉文, 蔡明憲揭祕 我彈道飛彈涵蓋北京. 聯合報, Apr 27, 2011
http://udn.com/NEWS/NATIONAL/NAT1/6300322.shtml
("扁政府任內最後一位國防部長蔡明憲，日前出版回憶錄，其中披露在二○○八年總統大選前，中科院曾經試射彈道飛彈，射程「已經飛越一般中程飛彈的距離」 * * * 我國自製的中程彈道飛彈，應有約兩千公里的射程，代表除了北京、上海外，可打到瀋陽、成都等地以上")

Note:
(a) 蔡 明憲 Michael TSAI
(b) The air distance between Taipei and 瀋陽 and Taipei and 成都 1,166 and 1,131 miles, respectively (Taipei/Beijing 1,070m).


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