Article Two: Enter the Dragon - China joins the military elite.

Defence correspondence is an area I love to write about. Because the project is also a portfolio of our work I am hoping to post quite a few defence related pieces. I have also just applied for a work placement with Globalsecurity.org, so I will need to show evidence of my ability to write in this field. On the Navigator it seems that the publication will be entertainment and lifestyle based. This leaves a niche for current affairs and news journalism.

I’ve decided to run my first piece on the new Chinese stealth fighter plane. There is quite an interest in the rise of China as a military power, and as result I believe this article will be quite interesting. There is not an awful lot going on in the news at the moment which has really caught my attention so it is a case of sticking to what I know.

To research the J-20 story I’ve visited several websites that I frequent regularly.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/

http://www.janes.com/news/defence/air/

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/

Finding images of the aircraft is quite easy. There is a “leaked” picture of it doing the round on the internet; however I have had trouble finding the source. I have also found some great images on chinatoday.com, so I have emailed to ask permission to use them.

UPDATE: I've received permission to use the image of the fighter from chinatoday.com! (Screencap bellow)

For the second image of the article I found a free image on Wikipedia.org.