[DM1]

Jiang Zemin hasnt been president for awhile now
new guy is Hu
this article should think about checking that little fact

[Jeff Head]

If we (the US) do not act soon to forestall and help dry up the funding the PRC is receiving, I believe a war with the People's Republic will expand far beyond the confines of the ROC (Taiwan).

The Dragon's Fury

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Please tell me we're not going to try to protect Taiwan's sovereignty. I foresee us going to war with China somewhere down the road, and I don't look forward to that by any means. But, I'm not sure protecting Taiwan (whom, if I'm not mistaken, we still don't officially recognize as a nation) is worth that type of hellish war.

[DannyTN]

So China is predicting a Kerry win.

[FesterUSMC]

HOLD ONTO YOUR @SS

[Always Right]

The Headline should read, China Promised to Invade in 5 Years.....it is not really a prediction if you have control over it.

[Lazamataz]

Senior Chinese leaders in the Central Military Command -- second in power only to President Jiang Zemin -- have predicted war with Taiwan within the next five years.

Damn.

Just when I was planning to take Taiwan over myself.

The Chinese have to come in and ruin everything.

[VadeRetro]

China predicts war in 5 years

They should know.

[isom35]

come on China, at least wait till after the Olympics in 2008...

[tx4guns]

It would be a bad move on China's part. It would be them against the rest of the world. Plus, if they happen to read Revelations, they should know that they won't win.

[Mo1]

Five years huh??

That's right after the Olympics right?

[js1138]

Doesn't Taiwan have nukes?

[Artemis Webb]

China won't attack Taiwan unless provoked. This is a no win situation for everyone. The Taiwanese would be obliterated. The United States would be put in the position of fighting a defensive war if we intervened militarily. Mainland China would catch hell from most of the world while they are working hard to become part of it.

The Chinese catch a lot of hell (as they should) for their treatment of Tibet. That's a drop in the bucket of the problems resulting from an attack on Taiwan.

If I had to place a bet I think this will be a long, slow and sometimes jingoistic road toward some type of unification.

[Seruzawa]

Well, China, good luck getting those troops acorss the Taiwan Straits.

[hedgetrimmer]

China appears to be stockpiling oil.

China now largest Saudi oil client

[Diogenes]

Message from Iraq

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http://www.republicansabroad-spain.org/newsevents/Irak.html

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Why are you posting a article that is from 2001 as if its current ???

[mugs99]

This article is a couple of years old. Nothin' but a bunch of hot air. China's economy is dependant on the American consumer. If they start a war with us, they will go broke and face more civil unrest.

[The Duke]

China becomes more like the US every day, and we become more like them. In a few years we should just declar ourselves to be a province.

[nosofar]

Right on schedule. China seems to require some kind of intramural armed conflict every 50 years or so.