Two members of US Congress have asked for a National Security Review and a Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States review into a new GE joint venture with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), writes defense analyst Wendell Minnick in Defense News.Read More →
China’s top leaders are preparing for a change in its political leaders early 2012, and the military are no exception. Military expert Wendell Minnick looks at the upcoming changes in China’s top brass in Defense News.Read More →
US joint ventures in China might be helping China’s military in improving its aerospace capabilities, according to an early draft of a report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, seen by Defense News China expert Wendell Minnick. The official report in due in November.Read More →
The decision by the US administration to ban the sale of F-16’s to Taiwan might cost the US economy US$1 trillion, according to a US analysis, writes defense expert Wendell Minnick in Defense News. Taiwan lobbyists find here new ammunition against the ban.Read More →
Seven retired US air force officials urged in a letter for an upgrade of Taiwan’s F-16 as “vital for Taiwan to defend itself and restore balance in the Taiwan Strait”, defense specialist Wendell Minnick writes in Defense News.Read More →
The US have released a US$ 5.8 billion arms package for Taiwan, triggering off the anger of China, writes defense analyst Wendell Minnick in Defense News. Taiwan still hope to obtain also ordered new F-16’s.Read More →
Taiwan might shift its preference to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JFK) after the US declined to sell F-16’s to the island, to safeguard its relationship with China, defense specialist Wendell Minnick writes in Defense News, quoting deputy Defense minister Andrew Yang.Read More →
The US have giving in to Chinese pressure and decided to stop the delivery of F-16 fighter planes to Taiwan, defense expert Wendell Minnick reports in Defense News. Taiwan’s officials are disappointed.Read More →
A decade ago the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) made everything from trucks, via black jacks to tea spoons to survive. But Avic is back, notes military expert Wendell Minnick in Defense News, with new types of fighter jets, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles and airborne weapons, ready for international competition.Read More →
Taiwan is gearing up to sink China’s new aircraft carrier Varyag in case of war, with its new “aircraft carrier killer” missile, the ramjet-powered supersonic anti-ship cruise missile Hsiung Feng 3, it announced on August 10, writes defense specialist Wendell Minnick in Defense News. Read More →
The Varyag, China’s first aircraft carrier, has started its sea trials and defense expert Wendell Minnick summerizes in Defense News what he has been observing from the Chinese media reports and military analysts. Read More →
Taiwans Ministry of National Defense will continue to deter China’s military treath, as both China and the US get closer on issues like the sales of F-16’s, tells Taiwan’s defense minister Andrew Yang in an interview with our defense expert Wendell Minnick for Defense News. Read More →