Was this a planned decision or a surprise?
His leaving is retirement by regulation. Lin should have (or can choose to) retired at age 60 which is the official retirement age for an state official (excluding the National leaders). Retired state employee like him (usually) would be able to serve in consultant/advisory position from 61 to 65 at the invitation of any state institution.Mr. Lin is 61 and had been at the helm for a long time, so it could be he was due to retire. His replacement, Mr. Tan, was recently promoted to be the general manager of AVIC, likely in anticipation of Mr. Lin's retirement.
Call me a delusional conspiracy theorist, but a lot of these recent “leaks” about SAC sound like they’re different parts of a coordinated smear campaign. This is shot in the dark speculation on my part, but I wonder if all this noise, real or not, about SAC’s competence is a PR effort to influence decisions over the naval fighter tender.
Yeahhhhh...I’ve noticed that too. Chinese culture can afford to be less judgmental.It may also be an unorganized collective act by subconsciousness.
I have noticed that there is a growing trend among some (not small number) Chinese influenced by the spreading of revisionist version of everything to advocate narrow-minded regionalism, ultra-nationalism and to some extent racism. The trend manifests itself like this: my province is better developed than others, my province should be ahead of others to name the first 055 ship and the new CV, my dialect is the true root of Chinese language, my regional custom is the true decedent of the real Chinese, other regions have been "polluted" by later coming "barbarians", the Qing dynasty was a colonial rule because the emperors were not Han, same as the Yuan etc. etc. I have seen these non-sense spreading out of internet BBS to people next to me.
By this trend, there could be just people from a region being overly proud to the point to self-bloating ignorance to downplay whatever others do, SAC is just one of many victims.
It may also be an unorganized collective act by subconsciousness.
I have noticed that there is a growing trend among some (not small number) Chinese influenced by the spreading of revisionist version of everything to advocate narrow-minded regionalism, ultra-nationalism and to some extent racism. The trend manifests itself like this: my province is better developed than others, my province should be ahead of others to name the first 055 ship and the new CV, my dialect is the true root of Chinese language, my regional custom is the true decedent of the real Chinese, other regions have been "polluted" by later coming "barbarians", the Qing dynasty was a colonial rule because the emperors were not Han, same as the Yuan etc. etc. I have seen these non-sense spreading out of internet BBS to people next to me.
By this trend, there could be just people from a region being overly proud to the point to self-bloating ignorance to downplay whatever others do, SAC is just one of many victims.
@angadow is a mere military enthusiast who has no connection to the Chinese military that I know of. For the love of God, could you stop indiscriminately transmitting rumors without making an attempt at filtering them?