China the Key to India's Afghan Puzzle

Asia Times | Monday 1st July, 2013 | China may be the key factor that India needs to balance what bill become an increasingly difficult Afghan equation after the planned US exit in 2014. Pakistan is the common denominator for both China and India in the emerging geopolitical calculus and Beijing has vast influence. READ MORE

China Leader in Afghanistan for First Time in 46 Years

Times of India | Saibal Dasgupta | TNN | BEIJING: With all its diplomatic and strategic proximity with Pakistan, China hadn't sent any leader of consequence to neighbouring Afghanistan in the last 46 years until the top Chinese security official, Zhou Yongkang, landed in Kabul on Saturday. The visit signaled Beijing's diminishing confidence in Pakistan's ability to check terrorists from crossing the border to the Chinese province of Xinjiang. (READ MORE)

The Things You Find on the Internet

This article over at Lex's place led me to this image:



A little searching around this "Deserted City" led me to this:




What's that on the lower South East corner of the tarmac?




Lets get a little closer shall we:



Okay, all you aircraft recognition aficionados, what are they?