China Tests Missile With 10 Warheads

The Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 31st, 2017 | BY: Bill Gertz

[Mariner]

China flight tested a new variant of a long-range missile with 10 warheads in what defense officials say represents a dramatic shift in Beijing's strategic nuclear posture.

The flight test of the DF-5C missile was carried out earlier this month using 10 multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs. The test of the inert warheads was monitored closely by U.S. intelligence agencies, said two officials familiar with reports of the missile test.

The missile was fired from the Taiyuan Space Launch Center in central China and flew to an impact range in the western Chinese desert.

No other details about the test could be learned. Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Gary Ross suggested in a statement the test was monitored.

"The [Defense Department] routinely monitors Chinese military developments and accounts for PLA capabilities in our defense plans," Ross told the Washington Free Beacon.

The test of a missile with 10 warheads is significant because it indicates the secretive Chinese military is increasing the number of warheads in its arsenal.

Estimates of China's nuclear arsenal for decades put the number of strategic warheads at the relatively low level of around 250 warheads.

[Mariner]

The Chinese are our natural enemies.

There is only one way to handle this development, and that is the modern equivalent of 200 Pershing II missiles in Japan, Korea and the Philippines.

Mach 7 with a 50m CEP, all within 500 miles of Beijing.

[x1stcav]

Thank you Bill Clinton and Lorel Corp.

[Williams]

Those estimates of only 250 Chinese warheads are bs.

[null and void]

Thank you Bill Clinton and Lorel Corp.

Beat me to it.

And even with all that help it took them decades.

[Williams]

The Chinese use mobile launchers in a vast underground tunnel network very dangerous.

[TigersEye]

Bill Clinton’s China Gate comes to fruition.

A MIRV with 10 warheads can target 10 separate cities.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Why isn’t Clinton is prison ?

[ETL]

The Chinese are our natural enemies.

The ChiComs have a close alliance with the Russians and your boy Putin.

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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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" Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170287,00.html
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Sept 11, 2014

China and Russia to build major seaport: report

China and Russia will build one of the largest ports in north-east Asia on Russia's Sea of Japan coast, reports say, in a further sign of the powerhouses' growing alliance.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-11/china-and-russia-to-build-major-seaport-report/5738036

[ETL]

Bill Clinton’s China Gate comes to fruition.

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The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate

By Richard Poe
May 26, 2003

CHINA WILL LIKELY replace the USA as world leader, said Bill Clinton in a recent Washington Post interview. It is just a matter of time. Clinton should know. He has personally done more to build China's military strength than any man on earth.

Most Americans have heard of the so-called "Chinagate " scandal. Few understand its deadly import, however. Web sites such as "Chinagate for Dummies" and its companion "More Chinagate for Dummies" offer some assistance. Unfortunately, with a combined total of nearly 8,000 words, these two sites - like so many others of the genre - offer more detail than most of us "dummies" can absorb.

For that reason, in the 600 words left in this column, I will try to craft my own "Idiot's Guide to Chinagate," dedicated to all those busy folks like you and me whose attention span tends to peter out after about 750 words.

Here goes.

When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, China presented little threat to the United States. Chinese missiles "couldn't hit the side of a barn," notes Timothy W. Maier of Insight magazine. Few could reach North America and those that made it would likely miss their targets.

Thanks to Bill Clinton, China can now hit any city in the USA, using state-of-the-art, solid-fueled missiles with dead-accurate, computerized guidance systems and multiple warheads.

China probably has suitcase nukes as well. These enable China to strike by proxy - equipping nuclear-armed terrorists to do their dirty work, while the Chinese play innocent. Some intelligence sources claim that China maintains secret stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons on U.S. soil, for just such contingencies.

In 1997, Clinton allowed China to take over the Panama Canal. The Chinese company Hutchison Whampoa leased the ports of Cristobal and Balboa, on the east and west openings of the canal respectively, thus controlling access both ways. A public outcry stopped Clinton in 1998 from leasing California's Long Beach Naval Yard to the Chinese firm COSCO. Even so, China can now strike U.S. targets easily from their bases in Panama, Vancouver and the Bahamas.

How did China catch up so fast? Easy. We sold them all the technology they needed - or handed it over for free.

Neither neglect nor carelessness are to blame. Bill Clinton did it on purpose.

As a globalist, Clinton promotes "multipolarity"-the doctrine that no country (such as the USA) should be allowed to gain decisive advantage over others.

To this end, Clinton appointed anti-nuclear activist Hazel O'Leary to head the Department of Energy. O'Leary set to work "leveling the playing field," as she put it, by giving away our nuclear secrets. She declassified 11 million pages of data on U.S. nuclear weapons and loosened up security at weapons labs.

Federal investigators later concluded that China made off with the "crown jewels"of our nuclear weapons research under Clinton's open-door policy - probably including design specifications for suitcase nukes.

Meanwhile, Clinton and his corporate cronies raked in millions.

In his book The China Threat, Washington Times correspondent Bill Gertz describes how the system worked. Defense contractors eager to sell technology to China poured millions of dollars into Clinton's campaign. In return, Clinton called off the dogs. Janet Reno and other counterintelligence officials stood down while Lockheed Martin, Hughes Electronics, Loral Space & Communications and other U.S. companies helped China modernize its nuclear strike force.

"We like your president. We want to see him reelected," former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung.

Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton's way.

Clinton's top campaign contributors for 1992 were Chinese agents; his top donors in 1996 were U.S. defense contractors selling missile technology to China.

Clinton received funding directly from known or suspected Chinese intelligence agents, among them James and Mochtar Riady who own the Indonesian Lippo Group; John Huang; Charlie Trie; Ted Sioeng; Maria Hsia; Wang Jun and others.

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown served as Clinton's front man in many Chinagate deals. When investigators began probing Brown’s Lippo Group and Chinagate connections, Brown died suddenly in a suspicious April 1996 plane crash.

Needless to say, China does not share Clinton's enthusiasm for globalism or multipolarity. The Chinese look out for Number One.

"War [with the United States] is inevitable; we cannot avoid it," said Chinese Defense Minister General Chi Haotian in 2000. "The issue is that the Chinese armed forces must control the initiative in this war."

Bill Clinton has given them a good start.

The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031001210123/http://www.richardpoe.com/column.cgi?story=125

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Richard Poe, "Chinagate: The Third-Way Scandal" (June 3, 1999)

[TigersEye]

For China Gate Clinton should have been tried and executed for treason.

Even Tim Russert used the word treason to describe it. I believe he gave up on the story because he was beginning to look like a mad man being the only one in all of the Enemedia (or politics) to call it what it was.

[TigersEye]

Thank you. Your post is the definitive post on China Gate.

I add only this for consideration; the ICBM missiles that carry MIRVed warheads take about 12-15 minutes to reach apogee. Once they begin descending from apogee there is no defense system in the world that can intercept them. That is also when the 10 independently-guided warheads separate and go their own highly accurate ways.

Rapist Bill Clinton created this true End of the World potential by giving the ChiComs MIRVed warhead technology and ICBM guidance technology. It could conceivably and realistically result in billions of deaths within in a matter of days. Or hours. Many tens of millions of them being Americans.

[ETL]

Even Tim Russert used the word treason to describe it. I believe he gave up on the story because he was beginning to look like a mad man being the only one in all of the Enemedia (or politics) to call it what it was.

Clinton's own FBI director, Louie Freed, said the investigation should continue. That the scandal goes straight to the top (to Bill and Gore). It may actually have been the guy who Clinton flunky Janet Reno I think herself hired to evaluate the case, who said it. I forget his name. Italian guy I believe. Anyway, Janet Reno ignored and dismissed both their recommendations to continue.

[thinden]

The test of a missile with 10 warheads is significant because it indicates the secretive Chinese military is increasing the number of warheads in its arsenal.

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it’significant because bill clinton & lorel’s treasonous technology transfer has made it to the launch pad.

[DCBryan1]

A MIRV with 10 warheads can target 10 separate cities.

They better be pretty close together. MIRVs have a "target footprint" that is not very big....about the size of an LCC and ICBM wing.

[TigersEye]

Everyone in Congress had to know about it as well. In detail.

[ETL]

Recall, just at the peak of the ChinaGate scandal, the Monica Blewinsky scandal broke. That of course pushed the much more serious ChinaGate to the back pages.

[TigersEye]

I think you're wrong about that.

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/r36m_family.html

R-36M UTTKh (R-36MU)

On August 16, 1976, the Central Committee of CPSU and Council of Ministers USSR issued a resolution authorizing the modernization of the R-36M missile designated UTTKh. A primary goal of modernization was further expansion of the missile's strike range and the increase in the survivability of the vehicle and its launch complex under conditions of the incoming nuclear attack. According to the official specifications, a single R-36M UTTKh missile could strike 10 various targets, including large population centers, as well as small military targets, spread over the area of 300,000 square kilometers...

Those warheads were 20 Mt. I don't see any purpose in putting 10 20 Mt. warheads in a small footprint.

[CodeToad]

“The Chinese are our natural enemies. “

They are? So when was the last time China invade North America??

[backwoods-engineer]

Just think: one missile could take out Sacramento, San Fran, San Jose, Fresno, Bakersfield, Vegas, LA, Anaheim, Long Beach, and San Diego.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

It’s their “Happy Family” warhead menu selection