Posted on 07/14/2005 3:51:11 PM PDT by CHARLITE
A Chinese military official says Beijing will use nuclear weapons against the U.S. if the Americans attack the Asian nation in a fight over Taiwan.
"If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons," Zhu Chenghu, a major general in the People's Liberation Army, said at an official briefing, according to the Financial Times.
Speaking at a function organized for foreign journalists, the official noted the definition of China's territory includes warships and aircraft.
"If the Americans are determined to interfere [then] we will be determined to respond," Zhu said. "We Chinese will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course, the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds ... of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese."
The Financial Times notes Zhu is a self-acknowledged "hawk" who has warned previously that China could strike the U.S. with long-range missiles. But his threat to use nuclear weapons in a conflict over Taiwan is the most specific by a senior Chinese official in nearly a decade.
Zhu is not the first Chinese official to mention the use of nuclear weapons first in a conflict over Taiwan.
Chas Freeman, a former U.S. assistant secretary of defense, said in 1999 that a PLA official had told him China could respond in kind to a nuclear strike by the U.S. in the event of a conflict with Taiwan.
"In the end you care more about Los Angeles than you do about Taipei," Freeman quoted this official as saying.
Though official U.S. policy on Taiwan is that it is part of mainland China – the "one China" policy – President Bush has said the U.S. would defend the island republic if it were attacked by Beijing.
and we expect them to pressure DPRK to drop their nukes?
China is scary!
How would they know where our missiles are targeted unless we tell them?
What is needed is a preemptive carpet nuking. Otherwise a little later the same crap will pop up all over again.
Is it just me, or has the number of Debka/WND articles increased as of late?
This article has been posted three times today.
i don't know. that is one country i am afraid of considering we are sooooooo PC in fighting. Just on shear numbers, we'd be in trouble unless we let the boomers loose!
A true master of the martial arts does not threaten. Wimps threaten. This, I think, underscores China's weakness; not strength.
Thanks Klinton...you cost me my children and grandchildren.
I wonder if there is any danger of them using this rhetoric out of weakness and then boxing themselves in to doing something extreme.
Let's never forget that CHina would not have the ability to deliver nukes on American soil if not for Clinton's treasonous and self-serving actions to allow the transfer of Loral's missile technology to China in exchange for campaign contributions.
I have a feeling that general Chenghu may be talking on his own and will be "McArthured" if he keeps flapping his jaws.
Sounds a little like Ol'Zhu just assumes he's a potential target----expecially when he runs him mouth like an idiot.
By the time they find out, their phones will be screeching ..from the heat of a thermonuclear blast (Fail Safe )
Well said, grasshopper.
Anyone else wanna guess Zhu get a bit more thana reprimand, as in he disappears?
China doesn't have a clue what we are capable of.
They are like the american indians who got a few guns and thought they stood a chance against the us government.
A war with China would solve alot of problems, it sure would solve the energy crisis. A billion fewer people would use alot less oil :)
1. Just how many Chi-Com agents have actively penetrated our Military & Political infrastructure and awaiting orders to destabilize the country? (Sorry, no one from the DNC counts since they ALL works for the Chinese Communist Govt).
2. How many nukes and WMD's have been smuggled into the country via a certain merchant's mega shipments from China?
3. Just how Politically Correct the US Military has become and the leaders are now afraid of discussing the fact that China can soon hurt USA very badly in a war.
A sad fact of history is that: It does not matter your Military strenght if you dont have the political willingness to use it.
I fear that America has become seriously weakened by many factors: The MSM, Bill Clintons allowing gays in the military, the relentless attacks by the gays & liberals to destroy the traditional family, etc, etc.
History shows that Many Empires fell from within. And America has got a lot of those same termites eating it out from within.
MacArthur had the right idea," NUKE EM" but Truman stopped him . Imagine what would have happened if we took out China in the 50's !! No Vietnam etc ..
Time for a preemptive strike
And still the free traitors grasp themselves in Michael Jackson style, while simpering and moaning about lower prices for consumers.
No doubt they will become even more excited about free trade when an American city is incinerated by a nuclear attack.
And a boom in manufacturing jobs.
I am not a Cnina expert but I cannot see China using nukes against the U.S.
One general does not make China policy.
As for me,they can have Taiwan as long as they let them do business like Hong Kong or Shanghai.
Chinese Nationalists were worse than the Commies before 1949.
he will prepare himself, not us. the craziest CCP official i ever knew since mao's time. as CCP's convention, radical officals would possibly get purged soon after their emergence. they were threats to the world also to CCP itself.
In any event, why do we allow these third world dictators to openly threaten us?
Why can't anyone with any power simply say, "oh yeah, watch it pal or you'll be nothing more than prehistoric rock before you even had the chance."
Tell the terror dummies the same thing. Bye bye mecca, medina and evey other holy site excluding Israel held sites.
Why are we so weak? Our ancestors would never have been so quiet at such threats.
I expect and ask that my leaders stand up for us and not allow such threats to go unchallenged.
If they want to duke it out, let's get at it and show them the full ability US military!
I'm tired of our "friends" always p sing in our face.
If China fired 1 missile, Walmart and other retailers would drop them like a hot potato, and China's economy would plummet into national bankruptcy.
If China thinks the US is bad, wait until they deal with the Evil Empire of Retailing.
lol.
It is time for a two-china policy.
and time to remind them of the power of a Boomer.
Bill Clinton's friend and campaign donor, China, speaks.
I'm sure they appreciate the help with ballistic missiles Clinton sold them.
I remember a scene in "Red Dawn" as follows:
"I thought there was a billion Chinese."
"There was." (Actor throws coffee onto fire, which makes a simulated mushroom cloud with the steam.)
China missed its window of opportunity for a military confrontation...it's now dependent upon the U.S. as its largest export customer.
First Missile is Installed For NMD on July 23, 2004
Killed the U.S. - CCCP ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses
Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first ten ABM silos in Alaska and California so that America has a defense against North Korean nukes
position or precision guided conventional weapons is a pretty low threshold to let the nuclear genie out of the bottle!
nobody can win a nuclear war.
That is a kind of large missile. I see swamp spruce in the background, which means many of the mosquitoes have already died off.
Well, nuclear war over Tiawna is not worth it so, good-by Tiawan
That's historically incorrect (see Hiroshima, Nagasaki 1945), as well as dubious for the future.
Yes, but still tolerable until we add the additional threat of Muslim terrorist cells with possibly nuclear , biological or chemical weapons, plus millions of illegal Mexicans intent on reconquering our South West, plus tens of thousands of M13 (Las Maras Salvatruche) and other professional gangs waiting for the opportunity to reign terror on our population and now we have something to really be concerned about!!!
Were you sleeping through our recent Afghanistan and Iraq invasions?!
Really? We went to war over a tea contract. Tiwanai has to be at least as important as some cases of tea.
I'm guessing that with that threat, Taiwan will have the a-bomb shortly.
They probably do already. There can't be another reason China hasn't just nuked them and to h*** with it.
They have made this threat before, when Willie was president.
Taiwan paid for it, Israel provided the talent, and South Africa provided the Uranium and the research safe haven (you didn't think that "Apartheid" sanctions were really limited to race relations, did you?!).
That joint effort made one atomic test explosion.
ps. This is a conservative site.
China: "We'd nuke U.S. if provoked over Taiwan"With this...
worldnetdaily.com / 14 July 2005A Chinese military official says Beijing will use nuclear weapons against the U.S. if the Americans attack the Asian nation in a fight over Taiwan.
"If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons," Zhu Chenghu, a major general in the People's Liberation Army, said at an official briefing, according to the Financial Times... Zhu is not the first Chinese official to mention the use of nuclear weapons first in a conflict over Taiwan.
Bush Aide Involved in Chinese Bid for Unocal...and tell me why we're supposed to keep voting for the GOP like brainwashed robots?
newsmax.com / 13 July 2005President Bush's top independent intelligence adviser, James C. Langdon Jr., met last winter with investment bankers in China to help secure his law firm's role in lobbying for a state-run Chinese energy firm and its bid for the U.S. oil company Unocal Corp., according to a report in the Washington Post...
Langdon's involvement, given his double role as Bush intelligence adviser and energy lawyer at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, may prove problematic, some security experts have suggested.
It's days like this that make me glad I'm a monarchist and a conservative, not a Republican or a Democrat.
No, but a LOT of US companies stand to lose a shitload of profits if we go to war with China, hence the question of Political Will.
I work in a Fortune 500. I've hired H1Bs in the past (during better times). There was nothing in the process that would have prevented me from unknowingly hiring an ErBu agent. I therefore must assume that at hundreds of major US companies, there are H1Bs from the PRC, who are in fact ErBu, or even active duty PLA. Do you think that most companies have a process that says "let's see, is this guy an H1B from Communist Red China?" when they give things like access to the financials data bases, responsibility for intellectual property or any number of other core, sensitive access permissions? Certainly, Export Control Laws are supposed to control some of the IP access but the truth is that the Feds have almost no enforcement budget let alone resources to randomly spot check or audit. And as for access to financials (as well as personnel data) there is zero - zilch - it is 100% up to each company to set their standards (typically - none). So, given all of that, imagine what might be the situation when we all show up to work some Monday or Tuesday morning after a 3 day weekend.
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