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Pakistan starts production of Chinese Fighter Aircraft JF-17s – Mush just does not get it: in 2005 China is interested in economic prosperity and not arms superiority over India
General Musharraf will get the Chinese perspective of state of things this week as he and his country starts production of Chinese Fighter Aircraft JF-17s to keep India on its toe. However, China is not interested in arms superiority of Pakistan over India. Those things are way of the past. JF-17s or F-16s are toys of the past – very costly toys for a country like Pakistan that lives of foreign aid. China will tell Pakistan to look for economic prosperity and follow what India is doing. The war will never be fought on the border exchanging missiles and knocking each other’s command and control systems. The war is an ongoing one and involves trade and economic prosperity. As a matter of fact, what that really means is that Musharraf’s and conventional Pakistan Military may have lost their job security guaranteed by saber rattling against India for the last fifty-eight years.
China will be looking for economic alliance with India while keeping Pakistan’s Mush happy with a few toys.
According to PTI, vowing to maintain both nuclear and conventional deterrence with India, Pakistan on Tuesday launched the joint production of JF-17 fighter aircraft with China, close on the heels of the US decision to supply it F-16 jets.
The launch by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf coincided with the visit of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao beginning Tuesday and was conceived by both the countries after flight testing last year in China.
"Pakistan would meet its arms requirements for its armed forces for maintaining deterrence in both conventional and non-conventional fields" with India, state-run PTV quoted him as saying.
"Pakistan would not confine to acquiring high-tech weapons but will also explore other options," Musharraf said.
The Pakistan President said the launch reflected the ''all weather'' friendship between the two countries, which would be strengthened with the Wen's visit.
Islamabad and Beijing, which have close defence cooperation for over two decades, initiated the JF-17 project several years ago when both the countries struggled to acquire fourth generation aircraft.
The United States, then, was not acceding to Pakistan requests to buy F-16s while China failed to get a new generation aircraft due to sanctions imposed by the European Union.
The new plane failed to make much of an advance, as Russia too did not agree to the request by both the countries to buy the supersonic MIG engines.
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