colonels have been talking about waging war against the united states. secretary gates needs to understand that of course the chinese secretary is configuring itself to fight us it s important to recognize what is going on. the leak of a test of stealth fighter prototype, copy of u.s. f-22 and rise of 7.5% of the chinese official defense budget last year raised eyebrows at the pentagon. tensions boiled over in march 2009 when five chinese vessels, three of them from the military, surrounded a u.s. surveillance craft harassing the u.s. navy vessel in the south china sea. gates visit was designed to pave the way for the chinese president visit to the white house next week. they established a hotline to diffuse tensions in 2007. but that hotline has rarely been used. at the event, jennifer griffin, fox news. bret: a washington lobbyist who is married to a white house advisor was found dead
nuclear showdown china takes on the world and the coming collapse of china. what about the timing of this. are you surprised? secretary gates was going to go to bay sing to clear off the military issues when the president of china aeu arrives for his january 19th summit with president obama. they don t want the things like taiwan and military relations to cloud the summit. they thought that secretary gates would be able to get them out of the way. jon: it also comes against the interesting back drops of those photos coming out being released and some think they were essentially leaked by the official chinese government of that new stealth fighter prototype that the chinese are testing. if they get such a weapon it seriously changes the balance of power in the pacific, doesn t it? it certainly does, because secretary gates stopped production of the f22 which is our stealth fighter. we are reflying on the f35 which is a less capable plane.
colonels have been talking about waging war against the united states. secretary gates needs to understand that of course the chinese secretary is configuring itself to fight us it s important to recognize what is going on. the leak of a test of stealth fighter prototype, copy of u.s. f-22 and rise of 7.5% of the chinese official defense budget last year raised eyebrows at the pentagon. tensions boiled over in march 2009 when five chinese vessels, three of them from the military, surrounded a u.s. surveillance craft harassing the u.s. navy vessel in the south china sea. gates visit was designed to pave the way for the chinese president visit to the white house next week. they established a hotline to diffuse tensions in 2007. but that hotline has rarely been used. at the event, jennifer griffin, fox news. bret: a washington lobbyist who is married to a white house advisor was found dead today in the burning car.