Posted on 06/21/2002 11:32:00 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday he will not accept China's invitation to visit the country, but will send a representative to discuss resuming military exchanges with the Chinese army.
Mr. Rumsfeld was invited to visit China in May by Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao during Mr. Hu's visit to the Pentagon, a Pentagon official said.
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Yeah sure. Chinese 'defense' is not really a traditional 'defense' strategy...
"Defense" means 'lets help people realize that they cannot hit us'...or 'lets prevent them from hitting us'...
China though is based around an agressive 'offense' which they claim is a 'defensive measure'...
They want to be able to attack Taiwan at the drop of a hat... and keep everyone guessing as to how that will happen...and they want overwhelming force in the process...
For them to open the doors and let us peek at the cards would eliminate their element of surprise...hence nullify their ability to attack.
They do not want the US to know, and hence come up with effective defenses against Chinese weaponry...
Its completely different than the Soviets... who wanted us to know flat out that 'they had 10,000 nukes'...
It goes back to the 'warfare is deception' thing...
That IMO is why some people want the US selling some weaponry to China... they see a trade off between selling a little technology for a much clearer intelligence picture...
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