Our Navy constructive or destructive?

• Terminator Hitman

  14 Sep 10, 15:08

  admiral must be in some old folks home eating porridge.

• Asromanista2001

  14 Sep 10, 15:26

  that's why i always say S'pore Armed Forces for show only...................

  peace time, they look good...........

  war time...............they all shit in their pants and panick...............

  all the top generals and admirals will be hiding under their mommy's skirts...........

• Arapahoe

  18 Sep 10, 00:29

  must ask the commander for 4 D number.....

• Terminator Hitman

  20 Sep 10, 20:20

  Chinese sailors get rockstar reception

  Belinda Cranston

  September 20, 2010 - 2:14PM

  AAP

  Lion dancers, a naval band and throngs of smartly dressed Chinese locals turned out to welcome two Chinese warships to Australia.

  The training ship Zhenghe and the frigate Mianyang arrived from New Zealand at Garden Island, in Sydney's east, about 11am (AEST) on Monday.

  The ships are in town as part of an exercise aimed at strengthening defence ties between Australia and China.

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  On board were 580 sailors, including 200 naval cadets and three Chinese admirals.

  They received a rockstar-like reception from about 150 smartly dressed members of Sydney's Chinese community, who waved them in with dozens of Australian and Chinese flags.

  There was also confetti, chanting and a Chinese lion dance.

  When the Chinese rear admirals disembarked the Zhenghe, the mood was even more jubilant, with many jostling to shake their hands.

  Over the next few days the sailors will visit naval bases including HMAS Watson and HMAS Penguin.

  At the same time an Australian ship, HMAS Warramunga, is visiting two Chinese ports.

  "This visit ... is a sign of the growing maturity in our defence relationship with China," Rear Admiral Stephen Gilmore said.

  "We have similar strategic views on many things ... we certainly wish to exchange ideas and thoughts and visit on a more routine basis."

  Two Australian midshipmen joined the Zhenghe on her voyage from New Zealand.

  Midshipman James Hill said it was the first time western naval officers had been on the ship.

• Terminator Hitman

  20 Sep 10, 20:22

  meanwhile up north in oz,some spore stealth ship's anchor got caught in someones powerlines.

  lots of cursin,swearing,welding fumes and the works.

• Terminator Hitman

  20 Sep 10, 20:33

  how come spore navy end up in longkang while china navy gets rockstar welcome and wheres the admiral on spores stealth ship???whats he doing??surfing porn on internet?

• Terminator Hitman

  20 Sep 10, 20:51

  maybe they think spore small size...small army...not much army as compared to china.one tiny dot...how many billion soldiers spore got???so i think they gave china navy warm rockstar reception.,,,,even though the china ships are training  and old designed ships.

  its not that spore has terminator robots and are really super high tech.....its just as good as some foreign farmer in a destroyer.

   

   

   

• Terminator Hitman

  20 Sep 10, 20:56

  i suppose all the LCD tvs in australia are made in china....all their canned oysters are made in china...almost everything is made in china........plus they do plenty of  trade and business with china from coal,beef,iron etc.

  so far in australia,the only stuff made in singapore are soya sauce,premixed laksa sauce and HP inkjet catridges thats made in spore.

• Terminator Hitman

  20 Sep 10, 21:07

  i wanna buy confetti and wave hundreds of tiny spore flags at darwin harbour also at spore stealth ship .but all my funds and past low salary from spore has been exhausted.currently has only funds from australian side only.

  however,i think maybe i paid for it by being charged by spore military for not going for IPPT due to civilian workload.i was fined heavily.anyway my made in spore products are one of the few high tech stuff thats on sale anywhere in australia.

  i sacrificed too much for my country...got squeezed out $$$$$ by my own army even by force and got threatened with jail and heavy fines....i cannot give anymore...im maxed out.:(

• Arapahoe

  20 Sep 10, 21:55

  Originally posted by Terminator Hitman:

  how come spore navy end up in longkang while china navy gets rockstar welcome and wheres the admiral on spores stealth ship???whats he doing??surfing porn on internet?

  
  when it come to military power....rockstar treatment may not necessary wise for small island.

  Keep it low profile but maintain lethal weapon.

• Terminator Hitman

  23 Sep 10, 12:49

  Sydney Morning Herald. March 21, 1998
  BY DAVID LAGUE, Herald Correspondent in Beijing
  
  Related: The trouble with Singapore's clone: Economist
  
  THE mayor of the scenic Chinese city of Suzhou, Mr Chen Deming, is not easily intimidated, even when Singapore's irascible Mr Lee Kuan Yew rolls up his sleeves for a diplomatic brawl.
  
  Mr Chen immediately grins when he is asked for his response to Mr Lee's extraordinary attack on mainland authorities over Singapore's fading dream of building a $US20 billion ($30.4 billion) clone of the Lion City on a 70-square-kilometre site outside Suzhou.
  
  "The only thing I can say is that I will pay very close attention to the reasonable parts of his comments," he said in Beijing during a break in the annual session of China's parliament, which ended on Thursday.
  
  Mr Chen insisted that his city government had behaved honourably in its dealings with Singapore over the controversial Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), which has dented Singaporean illusions that overseas Chinese compatriots with shared "Asian values" would fare better in mainland joint ventures than other hapless foreigners.
  
  "We have followed every step according to the contract," he said.
  
  That is not how a frustrated Mr Lee saw it when he visited the SIP site in December and lectured local officials over their "bureaucratic shenanigans" in allowing a rival industrial park, the Suzhou New Development, to compete successfully for foreign investment.
  
  "This matter has to be clarified because our credibility is at stake and the credibility of the Chinese Government as well in endorsing the SIP at the very highest level," Mr Lee told the local government.
  
  Singapore's elder statesman later took his complaints to the Chinese President, Mr Jiang Zemin, and was reassured that the SIP - a 65 per cent Singapore-owned joint venture - had the full backing of the central government, but by then his faith had been seriously damaged.
  
  In comments that echoed the exasperation of countless earlier foreign investors in China, Mr Lee said after returning to Singapore that he had discovered that signing a contract on the mainland was the beginning of negotiations, not the end.
  
  "You have to be flexible," he said in an interview with a Taiwanese newspaper. "We are not going to change them and they are not going to change us. But, if we want to do business in China, this is something we have to remember: it's different from doing business in other countries because they are clever people - in fact, too clever."
  
  Mr Lee's irritation marks another phase in a complex political relationship between the predominantly Chinese Singapore he was instrumental in founding and the vast mainland that he has at times feared as a reservoir of revolution - and more lately lauded as a rising superpower.
  
  For their part, mainland leaders have also had changes of heart over Singapore and Mr Lee.
  
  China's late premier Zhou Enlai once famously and dismissively described the British-educated Mr Lee as a banana: yellow on the outside and white on the inside.
  
  However, in recent years, Mr Lee and other senior Singapore officials have become quasi advisers to the Chinese government as it set about broadening the mainland's economic reforms.
  
  Friction over the SIP could undermine this relationship, particularly as foreign investment into China contracts sharply because of Asia's dramatic economic slump.

• Terminator Hitman

  23 Sep 10, 12:59

  stupid admiral of stealth ship!he should have ordered anchors to be cut and sailed back to spore on that very nite!