They're betting on a Kerry win.
well I would find it hard to believe they would make such a move before the olympics. Plus how many ships carrying chinese troops would be sunk before they left the port? We have quite a few attack subs that have too much time on thier hands.
PLA? Sounds like one of those terrorist acronyms. I wonder how our supplying the Taiwanese with nuclear weapons would affect the communist's plans?
The Chinese have more than 35 subs.
Bush Sends Stern Warning to Taiwan over Independence Moves
We can't exactly confront China when they are funding the growth of government.
Taiwan would be in deep trouble and would face a Red Chinese attack from TWO major armed camps. The first red Chinese attck would come, of course, from the Chinese mainland. The second prong of the attack would come from the major Chinese military base in Panama.
"When the PLA designates an area off Taiwan a missile-strike zone, no ship will dare cross the zone."
Bah. What will the PLA do when the US sends a carrier taskforce into the "zone?"
This guy sounds like one of those foreign service types who end up identifying with "their" country.
China has massive wargames scheduled for the Taiwan Straits at the end of this month.
We just sortied 7 carrier battle groups, reassinged 12,000 troops from S. Korea and are making plans to pull 40,000 out of Germany.
Pieces of a puzzle?
It is according as to how the '04 election over here turns out.
If President Bush is re-elected,it is iffy.
If john kerry is elected, it probably be a go.
Do you guys honestly think it will be beneficial for the US will get involved in a war between China and Taiwan? I don't think so. Maybe just some type of covert operations, but nothing big.
You guys are nuts. China's Navy would be taken out in about 2 days. The vessels are crap.
Makes me want to shop at Wal-Mart. Not.
Could be that such a move could reduce Red China from the worlds most populous country, to Asia's least populated real estate. Taiwan may well deal with the hordes of communmist Chinese as successfully as the young state of Israel dealt with the attack by hordes of Arabs, all those many years ago.
It's never over until the full figured gal sings.