I wonder where the billions in US dollars are going? If you read the whole article China has built nuclear reactors there too. Why don't Americans get to build in Pakistan? How many people are out of work in America? A good article and I really am losing a lot of respect for my idiotic government.
Pakistan Asks China to Build Naval Base in Nation - Defense News
China to build Pakistani Naval base.
China to build Pakistani Naval base.
Your idiotic government is also supplying arms to Pakistan
India, Pakistan to get U.S. F-16 jets - World news - msnbc.com
If you have the worlds largest democracy selling your weapons to the unstable muslim state next door (unstable because a dictator was being supported to help in the fight against terrorism) is not too smart a thing to do.
Pakistan is now buying chinese jets, India is now buying european jets,
The American Audacity: 50 Chinese JF-17s To be Sold To Pakistan's Ageing Airforce. Indian Reaction.
Pakistan has a deal to get about a dozen F-16s from the US but these are too expensive and too few for Pakistan’s comfort. Hence the Thunder option. While an F-16 will set back Pakistan by a cool $125m, the JF-15 will cost ‘only’ $25m. That means $1.25bn for a batch of 50. The same number of F-16s would have cost $6.26bn.
Half of these will reportedly be based in India’s western sector (read Pakistan-specific). These will be European jets, not American F-16s, which were surprisingly rejected from the tripartite race involving American F-16, French Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon.
There is an arms race going on in between two countries that have been at war four times, meanwhile western foreign aid means their people don't starve and they don't have to worry every time there is a flood or famine. Both have nuclear weapons.
You think the middle east is volatile?? Deja vu anyone?
India, Pakistan to get U.S. F-16 jets - World news - msnbc.com
If you have the worlds largest democracy selling your weapons to the unstable muslim state next door (unstable because a dictator was being supported to help in the fight against terrorism) is not too smart a thing to do.
Pakistan is now buying chinese jets, India is now buying european jets,
The American Audacity: 50 Chinese JF-17s To be Sold To Pakistan's Ageing Airforce. Indian Reaction.
Pakistan has a deal to get about a dozen F-16s from the US but these are too expensive and too few for Pakistan’s comfort. Hence the Thunder option. While an F-16 will set back Pakistan by a cool $125m, the JF-15 will cost ‘only’ $25m. That means $1.25bn for a batch of 50. The same number of F-16s would have cost $6.26bn.
Half of these will reportedly be based in India’s western sector (read Pakistan-specific). These will be European jets, not American F-16s, which were surprisingly rejected from the tripartite race involving American F-16, French Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon.
There is an arms race going on in between two countries that have been at war four times, meanwhile western foreign aid means their people don't starve and they don't have to worry every time there is a flood or famine. Both have nuclear weapons.
You think the middle east is volatile?? Deja vu anyone?
China to build Pakistani Naval base.
Scrat;1360198 wrote: I wonder where the billions in US dollars are going? If you read the whole article China has built nuclear reactors there too. Why don't Americans get to build in Pakistan? How many people are out of work in America? A good article and I really am losing a lot of respect for my idiotic government.
Pakistan Asks China to Build Naval Base in Nation - Defense News
Maybe because American foreign policy has distroyed any credibility your country has abroad and nobody is prepared to put their country in debt to you - either in financial terms or in terms of needing spares to maintain their armed forces or infrastructure. Who'll deal with your salesmen when trust has gone?
Pakistan Asks China to Build Naval Base in Nation - Defense News
Maybe because American foreign policy has distroyed any credibility your country has abroad and nobody is prepared to put their country in debt to you - either in financial terms or in terms of needing spares to maintain their armed forces or infrastructure. Who'll deal with your salesmen when trust has gone?
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China to build Pakistani Naval base.
This is what happens when your enemy smells that you're overextended financially: they push a huge pile of chips onto the table, daring you to call. It's what Reagan did to the Soviets; it's what is happening to us now. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
China to build Pakistani Naval base.
All china is doing is exactly what the americans were trying to do, sell weapons. It's a game that doesn't need to be played in the first place. India and pakistan had an uneasy peace now both sides are now building up their arms. Both india and pakistan receive western aid, why? We should stop thinking of them as poor third world countries.