[martin_fierro]

Can anyone provide a link to that 7-year-odd story about the PRC general that casually threatened nuclear destruction of LA if the US intervened on behalf of Taiwan...?

Friday January 7, 2000: Author of Chinese Threat to Nuke L.A. to Visit US

[gaijin]

Your Jedi skills are most impressive...!

[gaijin]

Four years ago, when Sino-American relations unraveled after the PLA fired nuclear-capable missiles over Taiwan in a clear attempt to intimidate an American ally, General Xiong was hardly the model of diplomacy. Xiong, then the PLA's Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, began his nuclear saber rattling in a meeting with former US assistant Secretary of Defense Charles Freeman:

"Taiwan is a matter of vital interest to us," Xiong told Freeman. Then the general warned that the days when China could be intimidated by America's overwhelming military power were over. "You could do that then because you knew we couldn't retaliate. Now we can. In the end, you care a lot more about Los Angeles than you do about Taipei."