Posted on 02/06/2018 8:31:00 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Ready for the Winter Olympics? How about war?
Xi Jinping has entire military drilling in case US strikes North Korea
KATSUJI NAKAZAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer
TOKYO -- "Do not fear death," Chinese President Xi Jinping told the more than 7,000 troops of the People's Liberation Army gathered at a military training base in Hebei Province on Jan. 3.
It was a freezing day and Xi appeared clad in thick military clothing.
The "Grand Mobilization Ceremony," as the meeting was called, was a first-of-its-kind event involving the entire Chinese military, with the Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force taking part. Live streaming of the speech was delivered to more than 4,000 locations, where parallel sessions were held simultaneously across China. The atmosphere was tense.
President Xi, who also serves as the chairman of the Central Military Commission as well as the Communist Party's general secretary, told Chinese troops to be locked and loaded.
The colossal event left no doubt that despite the warming of relations between North and South Korea, with representatives meeting for the first time in more than two years on Jan. 9, Xi has eyes on the worst case scenario.
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The next time you are in Walmart. Or Target. Or K-Mart. Or any stereo store. Or any tool store. Or any auto-parts store.
And buy something (anything) which is “Made in China”, you are funding the Chinese military.
Simple as that.
“How about War?”
How about stopping ALL trade with our enemy communist China?
How you like them apples, Ji ?
The first option is being raised frequently in recent days. But still quite a way to go. Besides, there are enough small potatoes who hitched their fortune with China who will be whining to no end: grain and meat producers, natural resource producers, college administrators, and more.
The second has so many in DC up in arms. They would rather resign themselves to N. Korea becoming a full nuclear state. Anything for status quo. Has been that way for at least two decades, and left alone, will be that way for foreseeable future. All they do is to make another 'scary' weapon and park in the region which they won't use when push comes to shove again.
I don’t see ANY way to stop NorK nukes other than a full scale DEMAND that China stop them.
Hate to use this term but, on our part, By Any Means Necessary !
Existential.
The entire premise of this article is BS.
I’ve been saying for months on this forum, the way to deal with this problem is to place a modern version of the Pershing II in both South Korea and Japan.
About 50 each.
Combined with the M1003 TEL, a missile can be transported, two at a time, via either the C-5 or C-17 transport aircraft. They can roll off and be ready to launch in an hour.
With an 1,100 mile range and an 85KT warhead we could have 100 super-fast and super-accurate (30M CEP) ready to hit either Beijing or Pyongyang in 24 hours. But not enough to be a real threat to Russia.
Once we put them in place, Beijing would be HAPPY to neutralize Norklandia.
It’s just a matter of will on our part.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_II
North Korea is actually one place you could bomb forward into the stone age.
“(30M CEP)”
The joke used to be that you could balance a cigarette on the nose of a Pershing, and it could stick it back into the pack, a thousand miles away.
CIA propaganda is what I think it is. I laughed out loud at how obvious it is to me
“I’ve been saying for months on this forum, the way to deal with this problem is to place a modern version of the Pershing II in both South Korea and Japan.”
Unfortunately, the appeasement crowds in both South Korea and Japan are very powerful. Convincing them to host Pershings would extremely difficult.
The funny part is china has used NK for years as a stick to poke at us and make us waste money to contain the threat.
Now it has turned around to make them waste money in the fear of a war in NK.
A few months ago China moved 150,000 troops to the border region and around that time began constructing what looks like refuge camps. Yesterday China was reported to have moved 300,000 troops to the region along with arty and missile batteries. Hard to tell from the reports whether the total numbers are 300,000 or 450,000.
Back in the 50s when they crossed the Yalu it was with 1,000,000 troops.
So what is the premise you find objectionable?
China has said it will retaliate in kind to whomever sends fallout into their northern provinces. Prevailing winds pretty much guarantee any strike would send fallout into China.
A strike on Beijing would result in the obliteration on a number of US cities at the minimum from a Chinese retaliatory ICBM strike.
According to FAS and multiple open sources, China has about 300 nukes...total.
About 100 SLBM warheads and about 100 ICBM warheads...and another approx 100 tactical/bombs.
The US has 1,500 strategic warheads ready to launch on a moments notice and all delivery systems are proven. And we have a total of about 7,500 nukes in inventory.
Of one thing you can be CERTAIN, China will not shoot first and will so whatever is necessary to ensure we don’t either.
Their “deterrent” is barely credible and their counterforce laughable.
If the US put IRBMs in Japan and S Korea, China would take no effective action against them.
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