Chinese Plan to Kill Drug Dealer With Drone Highlights Military Advances:
"China considered using a drone strike in a mountainous region of Southeast Asia
to kill a Myanmar drug lord wanted in the killings of 13 Chinese sailors, but
decided instead to capture him alive, according to an influential state-run
newspaper.
The plan to use a drone, described to the Global Times newspaper by a senior
public security official, highlights China’s increasing capacity in unmanned aerial
warfare, a technology dominated by the United States and used widely by the
Obama administration for the targeted killing of terrorists.
Liu Yuejin, the director of the public security ministry’s antidrug bureau, told the
newspaper that the plan called for using a drone carrying explosives to bomb the
outlaw’s hide-out in the opium-growing area of Myanmar in the Golden Triangle at
the intersection of Laos, Thailand and Vietnam."
See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/wo...nces.html?_r=0