Launch your N-weapons on our cities and deal with our "N-weapons". Ya feel me, Dog? Yeah, boyeeee!!
Posted on 07/14/2005 2:39:38 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the US if it is attacked by Washington during a confrontation over Taiwan, according to a senior Chinese military official.
“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.
Mr Zhu, who is also a professor at China's National Defence University, was speaking at a function for foreign journalists organised, in part, by the Chinese government. 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.
Rick Fisher, a former senior US congressional official and an authority on the Chinese military, said the specific nature of the threat “is a new addition to China's public discourse”.
China's official doctrine has called for no first use of nuclear weapons since its first atomic test in 1964. But Mr Zhu is not the first Chinese official to refer to the possibility of using such weapons first in a conflict over Taiwan.
Chas Freeman, a former US assistant secretary of defence, said in 1999 that a PLA official had told him China could respond in kind to a nuclear strike by the US in the event of a conflict with Taiwan.
“In the end you care more about Los Angeles than you do about Taipei,” Mr Freeman quoted this official as saying. The official is believed to have been Xiong Guangkai, now the PLA's deputy chief of general staff.
The rationale for the new threats is unclear. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs could not be reached for comment.
Mr Zhu, who has risen from the rank of colonel over the past five years, insisted he was expressing his personal views, and that they did not represent the policy of the Chinese government. Nor was he anticipating war between China and the US.
But he said that, because China did not have the capability to fight a conventional war against the US, the threat to escalate might be the only way to stop a war.
His comments could provide insight into the thinking among some in the PLA amid growing anxiety in Washington about its capabilities. Last month, Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary, voiced concern about China's military build-up.
Additional reporting by Edward Alden in Washington
Quote: Uh, oh....and I just bought a new bathtub yesterday....now I have to take the Home Depot receipt to the Feds and turn myself in for sedition...sniffle...goodbye everybody.
Triple LMAO!!! Funniest comment on FR in months.
Right...and then India would get most favored trading partner status. And China would be an international pariah. (more than it already is)
Yes he should have and the American people are vastly under-educated about all the damage President Clinton/Gore did.
Quote: Before china it was Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, pick a third world country or cheap labor country, ie., get a clue already
Yeah but those other ocuntries you mentioned did not have nukes pointed at us and did not have war games with russia with the United States as the adversary either.
Aww, isn't that sweet...Rummy voiced concern over China's threat to murder millions of Americans and turn the West Coast into an uninhabitable wasteland...
And I am concerned whether it'll rain tomorrow and derail my golf game...
What a bunch of whackos running this country...
We have ourselves to blame for this arrogant statement by the ChiComs. Don't we realize that we are making them wealthy by buying all of their products? And what do they do with the wealth that they acquire from us? WEAPONS TO DESTROY US! PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! BOYCOTT ALL CHINESE PRODUCTS!!!! PLEASE!!!!!
Launch your N-weapons on our cities and deal with our "N-weapons". Ya feel me, Dog? Yeah, boyeeee!!
"We can't let this threat go without response."
No you keep your mouth shut. It's clear they are posturing. One nuke headed our way and they know they'll be governing a sheet of glass.
"Last month, Donald Rumsfeld, defence secretary, voiced concern about China's military build-up."
"Aww, isn't that sweet...Rummy voiced concern over China's threat to murder millions of Americans and turn the West Coast into an uninhabitable wasteland...And I am concerned whether it'll rain tomorrow and derail my golf game...What a bunch of whackos running this country..."
You said it. Add this plus our hands-tied-behind-our back, PC-approach to dealing with terrorism, and it kinda makes you wonder who's really looking out for our national security.
If China think we can been detered from defending a follow democracy, they're dead wrong. If they nuke us we'll vaporize all 1.2 billion of them.
Why we continue to treat this repugnant state as a normal trading partner, making them wealthy and allowing ourselves to go into debt to Red China is beyond me.
These thuggish threats to destroy hundreds of our cities, made even in the same time period as Secretary Rice's July 10th visit to China, should mean that we treat China like we treated the former Soviet Union, not the way we treat a normal nation.
Like they always say, "If it don't make sense, there'a a buck in it"..
Quote: If China think we can been detered from defending a follow democracy, they're dead wrong
Do you really think we will defend taiwan if it really gets down to it?? Sometimes I don't think so. The american people are tired of Iraq and see no reason why we should go to war over Taiwain...especially if ti will cause their dvd players to go up $2.00 at Wal Mart.
The american people will vote with their pocket book.
CHINA = Most Favored Nation (my a$$ aches!!!)
So nuke them first.
HALF of China's GDP comes from foreign exports. 20-25% comes from exports to the U.S. and Japan alone.
Interestingly, whereas the US has moved away from the idea of battle field nuclear weapons, China has invested substantially into such capability.
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