http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/icbm/df-5.htm http://armedservices.house.gov/testimony/105thcongress/98-06-17freese.htm "Recently, sensational accusations have been made that through nefarious acts of the Clinton Administration since 1993, the United States has sold militarily sensitive technology to the Chinese. Perhaps the most disturbing allegation is that significant improvements in the Chinese ICBM capability are directly tied to the recent U.S. technology transfer. These allegations are based on half-facts that have been distorted and sensationalized to serve a political agenda. The Chinese do have ICBM's, the Chinese do launch satellites for the United States. However, the Chinese began their ICBM program in 1956, simultaneously tested their DF-2A rocket and an atomic bomb in 1966, and first launched their DF-5 ICBM in 1979. American cities have been targeted since the 1980's, and as we all know, with nuclear weapons pinpoint accuracy is not a requirement in a countervalue nuclear strategy."
Anyway, do a search on the DF-5.
You'll not see any debate on the subject. The Chinese have been capable of hitting ANY us city with a 5 megaton warhead since 1981 and have had us targeted since then.
Is the DF-5 the greatest or advanced missle in the world? Nope. Are there a lot of them? Nope. But all indications are that it can do it's designed job.
I can easily see how someone not really paying attention could have gotten the IMPRESSION that China couldn't hit the US with nukes till Clinton was in office, based on the typical articles on the subject that get posted on FR, which are less interested in an objective analysis of the Chinese military than they are in bashing Clinton.
ANY information that doesn't support the idea that the Chinese military consisted of guys using sharpened sticks and throwing rocks on the day before Clinton's inauguration, and that the Chinese military, on the day Clinton left office was about to surpass the US, ENTIRELY because of Bill Clinton, tends to be omitted from your typical article on the Chinese military from World Net Daily or Newsmax.
Clinton deserves to be bashed, regardless. Thanks for enlightening me, I now understand that though the Chinese had ballistic capabilties before Clinton, the Clinton administration enabled the enhancement of this struggling Chinese program. I'll continue to learn more. Being a traitor is like being pregnant, you are not "kind of" you are or you're not. I suspect you want to absolve this man of guilt in this matter, are my suspicions correct?