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Gustav Lindstrom and Giovanni Gasparini,The Galileo Satellite System and its
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Next Stage,’’Aerospace Electronic Warfare2 (2005).
Lindstrom and Gasparini,Galileo Satellite System.
Peter B. de Selding, ‘‘Europeans Raise Red Flags over Chinese Satellite Navigation
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‘‘China Says Aircraft Carrier Possible by 2010: Paper,’’Muzi,March 7, 2007, http://
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Author’s interview with Chinese official, Beijing, June 2006.
Bray, ‘‘Seapower Questions.’’
120.Observation Post of the Military Situation,Phoenix Television, March 15, 2006, OSC-
CPP20060317515025.
Author’s interview, Beijing, June 2006.
‘‘Senior Military Officer: China to Develop its Own Aircraft Carrier Fleet,’’Wen Wei
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Author’s interview, Beijing, June 2006.
Author’s interviews, Beijing, December 2005.
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI),Handbook on China’s Navy 2007(Washington,
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Ibid., 46.
Unless otherwise specified, data in this section are derived from ‘‘People’s Liberation
Army Navy (PLAN),’’ Administration, China,Jane’s Fighting Ships,January 29, 2007, http:// http://www.janes.com.
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Ibid., 6.
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