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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Chinese general who threatened nuclear strike on U.S. visits Washington this week Guess Who’s Coming to DinnerBy Bill Gertz, The Washington Free Beacon A Chinese general who once threatened to use nuclear weapons against hundreds of U.S. cities will visit the Pentagon this week as part of a U.S.-China military exchange program. Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu, who is head of China’s National Defense University, will take part in a  “familiarization exchange,” Maj. Catherine Wilkinson, a Pentagon spokeswoman, told the Free Beacon. “The delegation will visit Hawaii and D.C.,” she said. “A military delegation from the U.S. Pacific...

U.S. caves to China, again -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 3, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com I'm ashamed of my country today. In 1776, the United States of America was formed in the name of independence. Our forefathers fought a gallant and war in the name of independence. They risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor in the name of independence. But this week, the United States told the people of Taiwan, once again, to forget about independence. Don't even talk about it, the State Department warned. You might enflame the passions of the totalitarians in Beijing who...

The recent comments of Chinese General Zhu Chenghu – in which he threatened the United States with nuclear attack over the issue of Taiwan – represent the most public manifestation of China’s growing belligerency on the world stage. The concerted effort on the part of the Chinese to establish their hegemony over the critical region of Central Asia has been comparably covert, but no less menacing. With America entering the area militarily following the September 11th attacks, these Chinese efforts have only intensified, giving rise to a new “Great Game.” Viewing American deployments as dangerous encroachments into their territorial periphery,...

BEIJING (AFP) - China refused to retract statements made by a leading general that it would use nuclear weapons to repulse a US military intervention over Taiwan despite Washington's criticism of the remarks. "We will never tolerate 'Taiwan Independence', neither will we allow anybody with any means to separate Taiwan from the motherland," a foreign ministry spokesman was quoted by the official Xinhua news agency as saying. "We hope the United States will fulfill its commitments (on Taiwan) with concrete actions and join efforts with China to maintain the peace and stability across the Taiwan Straits." The spokesman was commenting...