In 2000, Russia and China signed documents on cooperation in the use and advancement of Russia's global navigational system Glonass.
Glonass, which is a twin of the American GPS system, is able to determine the exact position of an object anywhere on the globe, determine speed, and check time with an error of as little as one millionth of a second. The system has important military applications and is especially important in delivering pinpoint military strikes.
The U.S. GPS system is currently the most popular system of its kind and is used for military and civilian purposes throughout the world. However, the U.S. government restricts the use of the signal and reserves the right to cut off its availability if dictated by national security interests.
China plans to install Glonass terminals at airports and on planes, and Russia has allowed China to finance a group of Glonass satellites.
At the same time, The European Union and Ukraine agreed to cooperate in the creation of an all-European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to allow them, and others, to bypass the U.S. system.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/gps-00h.html In response, in 2000, the Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, CA, a $53 million contract to begin development of modernization changes for up to 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIR satellites. Lockheed Martin has delivered 21 of these satellites; 12 satellites remain in storage for future launches.
http://www.losangeles.af.mil/SMC/PA/Fact_Sheets/gps_fs.htm A GPS satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral in October. The satellite, designated GPS IIR-9, was the eighth successful launch of the new-generation GPS IIR spacecraft, boasting improved global coverage and increased overall performance of the GPS constellation.
http://www.ilslaunch.com/newsarchives/newsreleases/rec93 The satellite joined the GPS IIR-8 satellite launched on Jan. 29, 2003, along with the 26 other operational GPS satellites now on orbit.
President Bush, with our money, in concert with Lockheed, intends to outdo the Chinese, the Russians and the European Union in the space satellite tussle as these other countries move away from the our paternalistic control of our space positioning system.
So, in effect, we're isolating ourselves over here with our defense systems and everyone else in the world is uniting on the other side. No wonder they're getting paranoid over at the Pentagon.
The DOD's "Annual Report on the Military Power of the People's Republic of China," states that, "If present trends continue, Beijing believes it will achieve the status of a 'medium-sized' great power by 2050 at a minimum. " China also wants to become the preeminent Asian power by generating enough 'strength' so that no major action will be taken by any other actor in Asia without first considering Chinese interests."
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2000/china06222000.htm Two of the world's nuclear powers, Pakistan and China, signed a communique recently which described their cooperation as an "indispensable" factor in maintaining peace and stability in Asia.
The document was signed by Pakistani President Musharraf and China's Hu Jintao. In a speech to China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Musharraf described the partnership with China as, ". . . deeper than the oceans, higher than the mountains."
http://www.rense.com/general44/asape.htm "The past belongs to Europe," he said, "the present belongs to the United States, and the future belongs to Asia. China's role is critical . . . not only because of its economic strength and its performance, but also because of its geographic might."
Beijing has helped Pakistan initiate work on the Chashma nuclear power plant in Punjab province next to an existing 300 megawatt nuclear power plant also built with Chinese assistance. The CIA in a report this year cautioned that China, Pakistan, and Iran continue to work together on ballistic-missile-related projects.
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/edcoursesyllabi/pk-weapons.html Pakistan, as a non-signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty will have to obtain any future plutonium from China. Pakistan relies heavily on China for its military and nuclear materials since the U.S. first learned of its nuclear ambitions in 1990.
We have consistently looked the other way as the same corporations who supply Russia with weapons' technology - who in turn supply China - inflate our own nation's arsenal.
The Pentagon just can't seem to keep our own military contractors from proliferating their sensitive technology around the globe. They are pitting nation against nation in a death race as they steadily increase our military corporation- compromised arsenal. And then they turn around and destroy the weapons again in phony conflicts.
They lord over our defense' dollars in our government houses and shepherd the money into some death merchant's bank account. Where's the security?
According to the 2000 Pentagon report submitted to Congress, China was acquiring short-range missiles at a much faster rate than US officials previously thought. The report said that China was aiming the weapons at Taiwan, and possibly at US targets.
It also states that, "Beijing's primary priority is to prevent further steps by Taiwan toward permanent separation, with a long-term objective of eventual reunification under China's terms." Those are fightin' words to the administration's hawks..
This year, U.S. met with Taiwan officials in charge of national defense and national security affairs to "nudge" Taiwan to take a serious look at China's growing missile threat and take active steps to build up a comprehensive missile defense system.
After the meeting, Taiwan awarded Lockheed Martin a lucrative military communications contract that could be worth more than two billion dollars.
Taiwan, however, recently rejected U.S. manufactured armored vehicles and submarines as too costly. Taiwan had to lodge a protest after a U.S. envoy denounced its decision as "silly".
The Pentagon estimated in last year's assessment that China's military had acquired 350 ballistic missiles and was adding them at a rate of 50 a year.
"But the report contradicts the urgency in its own warnings with its assessment that the technological level of China's defense industrial complex is too far behind that of the West to produce weaponry that could challenge a technologically advanced foe such as the United States or Japan for an indefinite period of time."
Message: Prepare for a new cold-war arms race with China.
In 2001 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cited China's build-up of missiles, as he justified the Bush administration's announced intention to restart star-wars.
"The truth is that the Chinese have been building more, they are building more, they are going to build more - quite apart from any ABM treaty," Rumsfeld told CNN.
In a recent letter to Lockheed, the State Department listed 30 violations of arms export regulations relating to help given to Chinese satellite launchers and rocket development organizations.
The letter, addressed to Lockheed Vice President Richard Kirkland, alleged that the company violated a ban on providing technical assistance that would improve China's space launch vehicles.
One of the State Department's complaints was that the company illegally gave its Chinese partners a scientific assessment of a Chinese-made satellite motor.
Four of the charges related to an alleged visit by Lockheed officials in January 1994 to Hohhot, China, for test firings of motors for use in launching a communications satellite, and for discussions with officials of the Chinese company involved in carrying out the project.
That should have been enough to squash credibility of Lockheed and that should have been the end of America's association with the treasonous double-traders.
But the hunger to be just like the bully boys of the Eastern Bloc kept the Pentagon from cutting ties. Lockheed would merely change managers, CEOs, dirty sheep's clothing; merge.
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