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(snip from the FT article at the link above)

“If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons,” Zhu Chenghu, a major general in the People's Liberation Army, said at an official briefing. . . He added that China's definition of its territory includes warships and aircraft. “If the Americans are determined to interfere [then] we will be determined to respond,” Mr Zhu said. “We Chinese will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds. . . of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.” Mr Zhu is a self-acknowledged “hawk” who has warned previously that China could strike the US with long-range missiles. But his threat to use nuclear weapons in a conflict over Taiwan is the most specific by a senior Chinese official in nearly a decade. . .

IIRC, Gen. Xiong, the gentleman who told Chas Freeman in late 1995 that China would nuke LA if we were to intervene in the Taiwan Straits, gave another speech warning the US to stay out of it. It came a few weeks after they had concluded the largest military exercises in Chinese history - - a rehearsal for the invasion of Taiwan and the resulting war with the US. The start of these exercises had begun months before in the spring of 2001, and the movements were what the Navy plane that was forced down on Hainan was trying to observe.

I may be wrong, but I believe Xiong gave that speech a matter of hours before the first plane struck the WTC on the morning of 9/11.

Curious timing in light of this new "unofficial warning" from China (there is no free speech in general, and specifically, no merely "personal opinions" coming from a PLA Major General at a news briefing).

Curious timing.

China ready to use nukes against US.....

Yup. Interestingly, I heard this last night on Fox- around11PM. None of this was on the earlier, dinner hour, news. Guess they didn't want to impede people's plans to shop Walmart after dinner....

They (China) said they would nuke our cities not only if we attacked their territory, but if we took out any of their ships, subs, or other assets.

Yet we still shop Walmart....