China joins the gunboat diplomats

Monday, 26 November 2012

In case you missed it, here is the footage of the Chinese landing their first ever J-15 on an aircraft carrier:

China joins an elite band of powers with the capability to project force globally via parking their floating fortress off any city they like before asking for a favour.

I wonder if we’ll get a visit next time an SOE (state owned enterprise) takes a tilt at Rio? Just kidding!

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.