“The January 2011 flight test of China’s next-generation fighter prototype, the J-20, highlights China’s ambition to produce a fighter aircraft that incorporates stealth attributes, advanced avionics, and super-cruise engines,” said the Pentagon’s 2012 annual assessment of the Chinese military.
The report comes a month after a second prototype of the J-2o was reportedly spotted rolling around a Chinese airfield, more than a year and a half since China’s only other known prototype made its first public flight.
The three attributes described by the Pentagon are among the advanced capabilities of the F-22 Raptor, the stealth fighter jet billed by the U.S. Air Force and its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin, as the most sophisticated fighter on the planet. But currently the entire fleet of F-22s, which cost the U.S. government an estimated $79 billion, has been slapped with strict flight restrictions due to safety concerns for pilots.
The restrictions, which keep the planes in close proximity to potential landing strips in case of a mid-air emergency, were announced two weeks after an ABC News “Nightline” investigation found that the advanced $420 million-a-pop fighter jets have been plagued by a rare but potentially deadly oxygen problem for years. Despite multiple investigations including a four-month full-fleet grounding last year, the Air Force has been unable to pinpoint the cause. (abcnews.go.com)
We all know that the Pentagon's priority is to protect the Philippine proximity, but that's not the reel deal, The Pentagon is alarmed for the China's rising military force. The possibility to conquer the entire Southeast Asia, the American Allies including the Philippines. The United States learned everything about their tragic history including the falling of Pearl Harbor way back 1940 which was invades by the Japanese forces. but there's another theory, - that the North Korea and Pakistan's sync with China which is 10 times more tragic than Pearl Harbor Invasion, if these nations will spark an another war. Many consequences are already on the lists if the Chinese forces continue to make a move towards the Philippine islands, these consequences are already happened a few weeks ago after China rejected the Philippine exports, and restricted flights to Manila.
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Pang Wah-kan is Chairman of the Joint Committee of Hong Kong Fishermen’s organizations.
“We started fishing in the South China Sea in the 1960s," said From then on, several cases are reported that Filipino authorities detained our fishermen and ships and fined them. Some were detained and even confiscated by Malaysian authorities as well.”
The stand-off started in April when a Philippines Navy ship tried to arrest Chinese fishermen for allegedly harvesting endangered species of sharks and coral.
Chinese surveillance boats intervened and the two sides have since engaged in a war of words.
Nestor Daet is head of a Masinloc fishermen’s watch group that monitors for illegal fishing.
“I think our government sent about two ships, four? And the other are Philippines coast guard, I think," said Daet. "But, compared to the Naval ships of Chinese we are no match. It's like David and Goliath.”
Fishermen on both sides say their governments need to come to an agreement so they can all make a living.
“We should help each other to protect our seas so that ...we can return the stocks, the fish stocks of the sea,” said Jerry Escape, an officer with the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Masinloc.
Despite the stand-off, fishermen here say relations with Chinese fishermen have always been so friendly that in the past they would often barter with each other when fishing far from shore.
They hope that tradition continues next fishing season at the disputed Scarborough Shoals ( Voice of America)
But folks we couldnt forget the Chinese Media claims that not only the Scarborough Shoal and Spratlys, but the entire Philippines is belongs to China which was a total sign of desperation.
We all know that there are Fil-Chinese who lived in the Philipines and because of that, some of them posted on their famous newspaper website that the Spralys is belongs to China(Manlia Standard Today, April 2012) which was the Filipino community turned down their heads because of their own son.
