btw, it wasn't just me that was concerned about the current Taiwan / China / USA situation, they were also speaking of it on National Public Radio, in the hushed tones of terror.
China Rattles Missiles at U.S.
NewsMax.com
Tuesday, February 29, 2000
Missiles will fly toward the U.S. if America comes to the defense of Taiwan in the event of an all-out war between the two Chinas, Beijing?s official military organ has warned.
American intervention in any military conflict between Beijing and Taiwan would result in "serious damage" to U.S. interests in Asia, the newspaper warned, adding that China would use long-range missiles against the United States.
China is neither Iraq nor Yugoslavia but a very special country," according to Liberation Army Daily, the official military newspaper.
China, the paper stated, "Is a country that has certain abilities of launching strategic counterattack and the capacity of launching a long-distance strike. The U.S. military will even be forced to [make] a complete withdrawal from the East Asian region, as they were forced to withdraw from southern Vietnam in those days."
Observers noted that the latest blast in the war of words over the Taiwan issue echoed a 1995 warning issued by Chinese Lt. Gen. Xiong Guangkai, the Chinese army?s top intelligence and foreign policy official, who said the United States would avoid intervening in a war between the two Chinas if it cared more about Los Angeles than it cared about Taiwan.
Despite the ominous tone (cont)
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