sometimes i wonder if the Chin's might really want a small nuke exchange to cut down their troubling population problems...
Posted on 07/15/2005 9:51:56 AM PDT by neverdem
BEIJING, Friday, July 15 - China should use nuclear weapons against the United States if the American military intervenes in any conflict over Taiwan, a senior Chinese military official said Thursday.
"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," the official, Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu, said at an official briefing.
General Zhu, considered a hawk, stressed that his comments reflected his personal views and not official policy. Beijing has long insisted that it will not initiate the use of nuclear weapons in any conflict.
But in extensive comments to a visiting delegation of correspondents based in Hong Kong, General Zhu said he believed that the Chinese government was under internal pressure to change its "no first use" policy and to make clear that it would employ the most powerful weapons at its disposal to defend its claim over Taiwan.
"War logic" dictates that a weaker power needs to use maximum efforts to defeat a stronger rival, he said, speaking in fluent English. "We have no capability to fight a conventional war against the United States," General Zhu said. "We can't win this kind of war."
Whether or not the comments signal a shift in Chinese policy, they come at a sensitive time in relations between China and the United States.
The Pentagon is preparing the release of a long-delayed report on the Chinese military that some experts say will warn that China could emerge as a strategic rival to the United States. National security concerns have also been a major issue in the $18.5 billion bid by Cnooc Ltd., a major Chinese oil and gas company, to purchase the Unocal Corporation, the American energy concern.
China has had atomic bombs since...
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No surprise that the hand-wringing, anti-military, anti-everything socialists are pumping this bit up via their own, controlled media outlet, the NY Slimes.
He's not very bright is he?
We can thank the clintoons for giving them the technology to hit us long range.
We can thank the clintoons for giving them the technology to hit us long range.
Exactly! We know who we can thank for giving the Chinese the capability of nuking us.
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And no real outrage either.
If Bush threatened China with nukes, it would be headline material with global protesting and calls for impeachment.
Something really needs to be done about our MSM, it's ridiculous how any story that makes America look good or it's enemies look bad is buried.
...The Pentagon is preparing the release of a long-delayed report on the Chinese military that some experts say will warn that China could emerge as a strategic rival to the United States....
The war will be half over before those dimwits in D.C. wake up and smell the cities burning.
The Chinese have wisely sent in an advance attack formation in the form of massive bribes all over our government.
After twenty years of that, we're already half conquered.
There is nothing made in China that the Chi Com's aren't getting money from or outright own.
We are helping to bury ourselves with Chinese-made merchandise.
So, is Bejing going to put a bullet in this guy's head and send the bill to his mama? Or, is he just another mad dog bouncing off the bars of the cage like NK?
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Can someone post the entire article so I don't have to register with the freaking NYT's??
Zhu speaks for the rulers of China.
I hate it when a Chinese miltary officer threatens to vaporize some of our cities and annihilate millions of American men women and children. It's just...rude.
Nope, but sounds like he wants the MediaCrats to help him out with Taiwan.
sometimes i wonder if the Chin's might really want a small nuke exchange to cut down their troubling population problems...
We have H-Bombs, do they?.......
Why are we talking about Nuclear Brinkmanship? This week's news is about Rove. Didn't you guys get the freaking memo?
Well the RINOcrats and socialist democrats love Red China and all communists. They see no threat in nuking America. They infact would love for someone to nuke us so they can say: "America deserved this nuke attack because it disrespected the peace loving people of China." Pigs would simply love it.
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