China Buys 8 Russian Submarines Posted by Scott Manning on July 03, 2002 | Comments (0)

China and Taiwan Building Fleets in East Asian Race for Submarine Supremacy.

China and Taiwan are taking their military rivalry underwater.The two sides have spent billions of dollars on the latest weapons. Taiwan has maintained an edge in the air with hundreds of U.S.-made fighter planes. But China is chipping away at that lead, buying new fighter planes and destroyers and, last month, reportedly test-firing a Russian-made air-to-air missile.Full Story...