:china:
Sarcasm? What sarcasm? And Mandarin? What Mandarin? I mean I sure as the heck wasn't able to tell if the article was in Mandarin, in Guangdongese, Haka, Teochow or in Fujianese
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You must be mistaken. I mean was that what it says
? Hell if I know. I'm purely a Cannuck by trait, have the passport and the naturalization documents to prove it, therefore beats me what the
Chinese are saying.
You are not the author and neither am I. So how do we know what the author indeed have in his or her mind?
Jeez, How should I respond to that? I'm screwed I guess...
:china:
Sorry, in my previous post, I must have felt that you are being quite sarcastic toward me by bringing in the chinese dictionary and stuff. No punk intented
However, we do know the intention of the author by reading his passage, and if he meant other way... well... he failed to express it... at least to an audience like myself.
Now let us go into his passage again, and let see if we can make up any thing from it,
First of all: the title (which I find misleading),
(图文)解放军专家：反导导弹并非红旗9 主要应对印度
The first two characters means pictures (which it does show in the article), then they said, PLA expert, the column that follow must have meant what the expert said, Anti-Ballistic Missile missile is not HQ (hongqi)-9, then came a space, which means literally, the expert paused, and continue, mainly against India.
Now the last part of his or her comment is what I am confused, it said the missile is mainly against India
But no where in the passage ever said that except the almost the last paragraph even then it only mentioned India as an example, now for further detail, lets go into the article.
First Paragraph:
中国军方刚刚完成的这次反导试验，五角大楼说事先没有得到中方通知，正向中国军方索取有关数据。国内军事论坛上则热衷于猜测此次反导用的是“红旗－9”导弹。还有国外军情分析人士称，此举标志着中国的反导立场有了根本转变。笔者在此结合本人所了解的军事知识作出一些解答，纯属个人见解，不代表军方立场。
(China military had just finished testing of an anti-ballistic missile test. The pentagon (US) accused China of not notifying them on this test and was requesting data for the test.
Internally, China's military forum had been guessing that the missile is HQ-9 and foreign military analysis had comment on China's changes in their ballistic missile stance. Underneath is the author's own understanding and explanation of all these that happen and should not be taken into the official military stance.)
Next few paragraphs:
在新华社公布进行反导试验后，五角大楼发言人马林·斯库曼少校说:“我们没有接到此次发射的提前通报，我们正要求中国提供此次拦截试验的目的和意图。”但问题是，美国人有没有想一想，中国有义务向美方通报吗？
退一步说，根据联合国《关于登记射入外层空间物体的公约》规定，在一国发射外空物体进入外层空间时，应设立登记册记录所发射物体的名称、功能及轨道参数等。同时，发射国应将“设置此种登记册”的事情通知联合国秘书长。
在具体实践来看，有些国家在发射卫星等航天器时，会把相关内容告知联合国秘书长；但就导弹发射来看，还没有事先通知联合国的先例。另外，如果两个或两个以上国家间有协议，其中一方在发射射程超过多少公里的导弹时，有义务通知参与协议的其他国。
不过，就目前的公开信息来看，中美之间并没有此类协议，因此，中方没有义务向美方“先通知后汇报”。反过来看，五角大楼也应该扪心自问，他们进行了这么多次导弹或反导试验，有哪一次提前通知中国了呢？
(These few paragraph mainly stated the following points that I have mentioned before in my previous posting,
1) China is a sovereign nation. She had no obligation to inform US on her ballistic missile program.
2) Although UN had this directive that any object being fired into outspace needed to first be registered with them. However ballistic missile due to its sensitivity (my own understanding) have no need for registration and up till now, no country had done registration for their ballistic missile test.
3) author had noted that US had tested much more ballistic missiles and anti-ballistic missiles, but didn't notify China at all, so why should China notify US.)
Next Paragraph:
在新华社发布反导试验成功的快讯后，有媒体转载时配上了国产“红旗－9”防空导弹的资料图片，加之此前英国《今日中国防务》网站及《汉和防务评论》杂志都曾认为，中国构建反导系统的基石就是“红旗－9”。因此，许多人都认为此次发射的导弹就是“红旗－9”。
但据公开资料，“红旗－9”最大射程为300公里，最大射高15公里，从参数上看，“红旗－9”是一款类似美国“爱国者－2”的大气层内反导装备。而这次军方试验的是中段反导拦截试验，弹道导弹飞行过程分为3个阶段:发射点火后的上升过程(初段)、外层空间飞行过程(中段)、再入大气层攻击目标(末段)。
虽然国际上对外层空间的起始高度还没有统一标准，但即便按照较低的“卡曼线”(距地面118公里)一说，“红旗－9”导弹也难以达到这个高度。新华社快讯中没透露所用的武器型号，但根据公开数据，似能排除是普通型号“红旗－9”参试的误解。
(In these few paragraphs, the author was stating his reason why the missile was not HQ-9, I am too lazy to translate the whole thing, though
)
The next paragraphs,
至于《华盛顿时报》援引美国智库国际战略评估中心副主任理查德·费舍尔的话说，中国此前一直坚决反对研发和部署反导系统，此次测试意味着中国的立场有了根本转变。
问题是，目前的国际形势与十几年前相比，有了相当大变化。在冷战结束之初，只有美俄等少数几个国家拥有弹道导弹，目前已有30多个国家拥有弹道导弹设计和生产能力，
中国某些邻国拥有弹道导弹的射程和威力，足以严重威胁我们的国家安全。
The bolded wording means that some of China's neighbours, never said who - might be Pakistan, North Korea, Japan, Russia and India)
比如印度的“烈火－3”射程超过5000公里，能覆盖包括北京在内的大部分国土。
For Example india's missile (don't know what -3) had a range of 5000km, could hit Beijing and many parts of China mainland. Even this was just an example.
与此同时，反导技术也在扩散，
美国在东亚开始形成北起韩国南至台湾地区的反导包围圈。在这种形势下，中国有权利更有必要发展自己的反导技术，这是为了更好地捍卫国土安全，与中国积极的国防政策是一致的。
Well this paragraph is important, it basically said that US is actually expanding in Asia Pacific... from Korea to Taiwan (North and South) anti-ballistic missile umbrella. Under this circumstances, China had the right and needs to develope their anti-missile umbrella too. This is to better protect the nation's safety and soverignity.
Well... if there is a hidden meaning, I think China's least worry is India. She is more worried against two main threats,
1) More nations (especially those around her) had ballistic missile that could hit her.
2) US is developing a very comprehensive anti-missile umbrella around China and so making China's nuclear deterrence less feasible, because their missiles would be knock off sky even before leaving Asia Pacific.
So China needed their own umbrella to tell the world that she is also not as easily hit by missiles too.
Well, that is the gist of the article... and no where in the article did it imply that the missile umbrella was mainly against India. It just happen that the umbrella did ensure that India would have a harder time hitting China.
