This is interesting:

Five Chinese naval ships, including a guided-missile destroyer, were spotted on Sept. 9 near the Chunxiao gas field in the East China Sea — the site of a fierce Sino-Japan territorial dispute, Tokyo military officials said.

A Japanese P-3C patrol plane monitored the five Chinese vessels — including a 7,940-ton Sovremenny-class missile destroyer, two 1,702-ton Jianghu I-class missile frigates, a 23,000-ton replenishment vessel and a 6,000-ton missile observation support ship — as they cruised near the gas field, according to the Maritime Self-Defense Force.

The ships were in the open sea about 290 kilometers northeast of Kume Island near Japan’s southern island of Okinawa. It was the first time Japan has spotted Chinese warships near the disputed gas field, the MSDF said. The ships did not violate Japanese territorial waters and Japan’s military took no action, officials said.

Just out for a casual cruise no doubt? Hmmmmmm, but what about this?

China’s government secretly tried to buy U.S. electronic equipment that would allow Beijing to intercept U.S. intelligence data sent to the ground by satellites, according to court papers in a spy case.
A declassified FBI report from 1997, which authorities say was found in the possession of Chinese spying suspect Katrina Leung before her arrest in 2003, said two Chinese nationals were being sought by Chinese authorities for stealing $140 million intended for “a high-tech transfer/purchase of a most-up-to-date satellite retrieval systems technology manufactured by a U.S. firm.”
The technology would enable China “to intercept the same intelligence being collected by the U.S.,” said the report from the FBI’s Hong Kong office.
The report said the “highest level” of the Chinese government had ordered the operation and that the disclosure of the purchase attempt would be “far more detrimental to [China] than the loss of the money.”

Our buddies in the Far East — while they try to drag themselves out of the cultural desert Mao plunged them into, their way of life and system of agriculture is bringing us possible world-wide calamity.

I know that I seem to have a lot in common with Chicken Little lately, but that doesn’t change the fact that China is not our buddy! The alarm has been sounded before. We had better start listening — soon! (db)

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