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 Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:25 am Post subject: CHINA ARMAGEDDON |
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If anyone saw or even heard President Bush's response to China's threat to drop a nuke on our major cities if we defend taiwan, you would probably be one of very few. It's probably better that you didn't since his response was beyond weak and quite frankly an embarassment. What kind of message did that non response send around the World??
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CHINA ARMAGEDDON
Behind The Lines
Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, July 21, 2005
What do you suppose the reaction would be in the American, Chinese, and world press if a Major General in the US Army gave an official briefing at the Pentagon and stated:
“If the Chinese attack Taiwan, we will have to respond with nuclear weapons. We Americans would then have to prepare ourselves for the destruction of all our cities east of Kansas City. Of course, the Chinese will have to accept that hundreds of Chinese cities will be destroyed by us.”
Can you imagine the media feeding frenzy? Can you imagine the reaction at the White House? The general would be instantly cashiered and sent to a mental hospital for psychiatric treatment, while everyone in the Administration made every possible effort to repair the damage.
So why didn’t this happen when a Major General in the Red Chinese People’s Liberation Army – who is also the Deputy Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies at the Chinese National Defense University – said exactly this in reverse on July 15 in Beijing?
Specifically, General Zhu Chenghu informed a group of international journalists:
“If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition onto the target zone on China's territory [he’s talking about Taiwan], I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons… 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 their cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.”
I can’t decide which is more incredible: that China has publicly threatened America with thermonuclear war, or that the response to it has been invisible. The whole thing is beyond Kafka.
Bush shrugs his shoulders and says nothing. Condoleeza Rice says nothing. State Department and Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesmen agree that the general was merely expressing his “personal views.” As of this writing a week after his remarks, General Zhu remains in his positions and has not suffered any reprimands or punishment.
Instead, China launched an official denunciation this week of the Pentagon’s just released Annual Report on Military Power of the People’s Republic of China. The cautious and studiously non-inflammatory report is vilified by the same Foreign Ministry spokesfolks who airily dismissed the “personal views” of General Zhu as: “Groundlessly attacking China’s military modernization (which) rudely interferes with China’s internal affairs.”
The Chinese even had the chutzpah to accuse the Pentagon report of fantasizing a “China Threat Theory” – the accusation coming five days after their own general threatened to nuke hundreds of American cities. As noted, Kafka couldn’t make this up.
Let’s bring this home. First, Zhu Chenghu is clearly clinically nuts. A very high percentage of Chinese military officers are alcoholics – as any US businessman who has spent time with them knows (most high PLA officers have businesses on the side). So maybe he was drunk or the booze has wigged out his brain – but whatever the reason, the PLA has one big time loony general on its hands.
At least 80% of China’s population lives “east of Xian.” That’s over one billion people. It’s OK with Zhu for one billion of his fellow Chinese to be killed if “hundreds” of US cities are destroyed in return.
Second, as the Pentagon Report details, the Chinese nuclear arsenal contains at present 20 CSS-4 ICBMs capable of reaching the US, each with a single non-MIRVed nuclear warhead with a yield of between 4 and 5 megatons. 20 missiles are not capable of hitting “hundreds” of US cities. Yes, China is desperately trying to MIRV their warheads (multiple nukes with multiple targets from one missile), and develop JL-2 SLBM submarine-launched missiles, adding to their “deterrent.”
Nonetheless, the ghastly bottom line is that in the nightmare of a full-on nuclear exchange between China and the US, we have the capacity to obliterate, literally obliterate China off the map, while China has and will not have for the foreseeable future a similar capacity to annihilate us.
The Chicoms must know that if they initiate nuclear war with America, China will suffer Armageddon and America will not.
The question is: how many Chicoms are psychopaths like Zhu over Taiwan – willing to extinguish their civilization and one billion of their people in order to conquer 20 million other people who refuse to be under their control?
Zhu is still a general, he hasn’t been condemned, so he’s got to have company among other Chinese generals and political leaders. This is about as sobering a realization as you can get – which brings us to the single most important issue of our time.
It’s not Moslem crazies. That’s number two. Terrorism is a pinprick compared to full-on nuclear war. Number one is the democratization of China. The only way we are going to have peace with China is for China to become a democracy – like India.
India has over a billion people. India is modernizing its military. India is a growing nuclear power. No one is worried (except the Chicoms and their Pak puppets), because India is a democracy.
Thousands of anti-government demonstrations, many of them violent, take place throughout China now every month. Predictions that the Chinese economy is going to hit a wall are becoming prevalent. (One main reason oil has retreated off $60, and fears that it will go to $100 are ludicrous, is that China can’t afford it: Chinese oil consumption has now swooned.)
Increasingly, the Chicoms are seeing war – war with Taiwan – as their only way out.
The Ravings of Zhu are not those of a lone madman. The Chicoms are preparing for war. Unless, somehow, a democratization effort is launched and begins to succeed within China, that war will come. Let’s hope the Taiwanese get this effort going and fast. |
What a sad state of affairs,
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China has a robust Civil Defense program and has made provisions for ranking party members to be protected during a nuclear attack. China feels they can win a nuclear exchange with the USA.
The USA has a robust Civil Defense program and has made provisions for the protection of ranking government officials during a nuclear attack. The USA feels they can ensure mutually assured destruction in a nuclear exchange with China.
Where does this leave the balance of the population of China and the USA?
Bent over with their heads stuck between their legs trying to kiss their ass goodbye.
Clinton cut the remanents of our National Civil Defense program in the 90s. At this moment Americans can longer look for shelters stocked with food provisions, medicines or potable water, unless they are elected to Congress.
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