Yang Liwei, then a lieutenant-colonel in the Chinese air force, spent 21 hours in space.

当时还是中国空军中校的宇航员杨利伟在太空中度过了21个小时。

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Moscow, however, is not the only nation to help the Chinese air force with its latest jet fighter.

然而，并非只有莫斯科一家与中国在她的新型战斗机上进行合作。

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She is the first female officer to obtain such a high rank since the Chinese Air Force was founded in 1949.

这是自1949年成立以来，中国空军出现的第一位女师长。

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However, one component of the joint force has lagged badly during the Gates years in preparing for the coming Chinese military challenge: the Air Force.

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Most disturbing was a late-September Chinese air force exercise with the Turkish air force (which included a stop in Iran) that probably compromised sensitive NATO air-war-fighting tactics.

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It's interesting to me that the most explicit discussion so far today of the successor technologies to those that were leading technologies in the SDI program are being pursued by Surry and the Chinese, not by the Pentagon and certainly not by the Air Force , to my knowledge, unless it's a deep, dark " black" program.

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