Posted on 08/16/2004 11:00:26 PM PDT by yonif
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has successfully tested a new guided missile it says is highly accurate, state media said on Tuesday amid rising tensions with arch-rival Taiwan.
"Several days ago, a new model of a guided missile developed and built by China was tested and achieved satisfactory success," the China News Service quoted project researcher Feng Dawei as saying.
"The missile accurately hit its target with a high degree of precision."
The agency did not give any details about the missile's range or payload, saying only that it was developed by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. and that Defence Minister Cao Gangchuan attended and praised the test.
China has recently ratcheted up the belligerent rhetoric towards Taiwan, a self-governed island deemed by Beijing to be a renegade province that must be reclaimed by force if necessary.
The two sides, diplomatic rivals since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, have been holding annual war games. China has staged mock invasion drills while Taiwan's military has held war games to fend off such an attack.
The China News service did not directly link the test to Taiwan, but quoted Feng as saying researchers were committed to "promoting military modernisation and realising the grand task of reunifying the motherland".
The report also came two days after Taiwan Premier Yu Shyi-kun said China was rehearsing attacks aimed at killing or capturing the island's leaders in a "decapitation" action based on U.S. strikes in Iraq against Saddam Hussein.
On Monday, a Taiwan newspaper said the United States planned to sell four Aegis missile-defence warships to the island to help protect against an estimated 500 ballistic missiles aimed at it by China.
I think Poland could explain this to anyone that's having a hard time understanding it. Taiwan is a sovereign nation. It has been sovereign since 1949. Fifty-five years later and the spokes-holes on the mainland are continuing to sound a lot like Adolf Hitler.
China's aspirations don't end at Taiwan. We can kid ourselves that if we sell out Taiwan, all will be peaceful bliss, or we can arm Taiwan, and tell China that we'll kick it's ass if it dare tries anything with Taiwan.
It is distrubing to watch a sovereign nation threatened in this manner. Before we sold our souls to the mainland, Taiwan was an excellent trading partner. It didn't abuse it's people and it didn't threaten it's neighbors. It didn't proliferate nuclear weapons around the planet, and it didn't threaten to bury the U.S. this century. I guess these are the reasons we have determined that China is one nation and Taiwan is expendable.
This policy started before Bush, so I'm not targeting him. I just think this is extremely unfortunate. Instead of the mainland moderating, we see that it has become emboldened. Why don't we adjust our policies with the mainland to reflect reality, instead of the same Neville Chamberlain pipe dreams that cost tens of millions of lives in the last century.
Here we go again!
Precision to the Chinese Communist is a matter of how much collateral damage is necessary to actually take out a target.
While I think your point is somewhat valid, didn't you mean Germany?
While I believe that it is true that Taiwan claimed to be the only legitimate government of China, Taiwan did not seek to develop WMDs and other military measures to bring that into reality.
Taiwan has not targeted the mainland in the same manner that the mainland has targeted it. The exercises alone, mentioned in this article, depict a nation seeking to protect itself, not project outward in occupation.
Unfortuately, we've sold them more than our souls. We've sold them our technology...and advanced them about 300 years.
Why don't we adjust our policies with the mainland to reflect reality, instead of the same Neville Chamberlain pipe dreams that cost tens of millions of lives in the last century.
This time, it will cost tens of millions of our lives, thanks to these fools. I have serious doubts that we would win.
New ChiCom missile courtesy of BJ Clintoilet, Al Goreknob and the Demoncratic party.
On behalf of the millions of Americans who will die for your lack of character, I have to say, "Thanks guys!"
Well, at the rate we're disarming, I'm too smart to argue that point forcefully. Right now we could win. In another five to ten years, we'll be ripe for the picking.
We are destroying our nukes, pulling troops home from around the world, and kidding ourselves that this will lead to anything more than halving our military again when the next liberal jackass takes office. And our side will think up reasons to agree with it and tell us we have nothing to worry about.
We can barely carry on the current activities in Iraq. Soon we won't even be able to do that.
When Germany entered Poland in WWII, that's the claim of motherland consolidation that I was mentioning. Russia probably had the same claim, but I'd not heard it in the Motherland terms you probably have.
We're probably in agreement on China pretty much. I don't think either of us thinks the Mainland is too worried about an invasion any time soon. I don't think Taiwan has threatened that type of action in many moons.
I agree. Them and their enablers stick it to the nation.
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Well, the Dims are still sticking it to us, so your post was right the first time.
Why do you think this is? Have we been taken over by idiot leaders; who possess little logic, but a grand sense of utopianism? Or is it something else?
Not a rhetorical question; I wonder about it constantly in regard to this issue, and many others.
Wars of attrition will wear down the resources of great military powers. We used to have the advantage of superior technology but have allowed the export of technology to our competitors or enemies. This does not bode well for the future.
"The China News service did not directly link the test to Taiwan, but quoted Feng as saying researchers were committed to "promoting military modernisation and realising the grand task of reunifying the motherland"."
I totally agree. Taiwan should take back the rest of China at the earliest possible time.
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