Wake up liberals. All of you on the board here have been saying that China is no threat that they are just wonderful people. I guess you would have liked slavery also as you condone it now when it goes on before your very eyes. You scream blue murder over the religious right but in China there are over 1 million people in slave labor camps and they harvest their body parts for sale to people around the world. Look at the following and wake up.
Chinese Defense Minister Chi Haotian predicted that war with the United States "is inevitable," a comment first reported by the Washington Times last year and cited as recently as Saturday by NewsMax.com.
"A laborious Pentagon translation of hundreds of books and journal articles by mid-level Chinese military officers shows that Beijing's future military leadership sees U.S. military power as waning and plans to exploit weaknesses in U.S. weaponry and supply lines should conflict occur," reported the AP.
In September 1997, Pentagon China expert Michael Pillsbury testified about China's war plans before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Committee Chairman Richard Shelby said he called the hearing to learn about the state of U.S. intelligence gathering on "the only great power whose defense spending has increased in recent years."
In the Chinese view, "U.S. military forces, while dangerous at present, are vulnerable, even deeply flawed, and can be defeated with the right strategy," Pillsbury testified.
One Chinese book published in 1996 contained articles from 64 People's Liberation Army officers, who detailed the weaknesses in U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force capability.
"This book represents the common theme in PLA views of future warfare," Pillsbury said. "America is proclaimed to be a declining power with but two or three decades of primacy left."
Despite their military inferiority, the generals argue, China could overcome current U.S. advantages by "power-leveraging" their own military technology, such as highly accurate cruise missiles and torpedoes.
"[U.S.] Navy task forces, strung-out supply convoys, logistics bases, military computers and even stealth aircraft could become vulnerable if China exploited the proper technologies," according to China's war planners.
Chinese military experts cited by Pillsbury include Maj. Gen. Sun Balin, a member of Beijing's Academy of Military Science, who contended that America's reliance on computers exposed it to attack by China's "electrical incapacitation systems."
Capt. Shen Zhongchang, writing with colleagues from China's Naval Research Institute, argued that the U.S.'s superior navy could be defeated by China's highly accurate land-based anti-ship missiles.
"Shen's article paid particular attention to attacks aimed at logistics bases and supply lines, noting for example U.S. supply operations during the Persian Gulf War."
Chang Mengxiong, a former senior engineer with China's Beijing Institute of System Engineering, explained that China should pursue a strategy to inflict maximum damage with its inferior force, "like a Chinese boxer with a knowledge of vital body points who can bring an opponent to his knees with a minimum of movement."
China's blueprint to defeat the U.S. militarily may be strictly theoretical - the kind of global contingency planning that generals routinely engage in.
But against the backdrop of some very public saber rattling by China in recent years, such planning looks much more ominous.
China's Defense Minister Chi Haotian, for instance, has been quoted in government-run newspapers saying that "war with the United States is inevitable."
Then there's Lt. Gen. Xiong Guangkai, who in March 1996 warned that the continental U.S. was now vulnerable to a Chinese nuclear ballistic missile attack.
"You are not going to threaten us again," Gen. Xiong told American China expert Charles Freeman, "because, in the end, you care a lot more about Los Angeles than Taipei."
The Clinton administration, its pockets stuffed with campaign contributions from the Chinese military, took a head-in-the-sand approach to Xiong's incendiary words.
"If this was some sort of serious message, we had to make it clear that we were returning it unopened," then-National Security Adviser Anthony Lake told the Washington Post.
American journalists, for the most part, have taken the same attitude.
Not once during the current standoff have mainstream reporters reminded Americans of Gen. Xiong's warning. When the Clinton administration rolled out the red carpet for Xiong's visit to Washington last year, his threat to incinerate Los Angeles was barely noted by journalists.
Likewise, the press has declined to make much of a confrontation just two months later between the U.S. and China over Taiwan, a chilling epsiode prompted by Beijing's decision to launch American-designed M-9 missiles into the Taiwan Straits in an attempt to intimidate the island nation.
A U.S. RC-135 reconnaisasance plane tracked at least one missile that sailed directly over Taiwan's capital, Taipei.
"U.S. analysts saw special significance in China's use of the nuclear-capable M-9 missile," reported the Washington Post two years later. "The M-9 belonged to China's nuclear rocket force - the Second Artillery - and Chinese press accounts called attention to that fact."
Though media accounts at the time noted that two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups had been dispatched to the region, most Americans still have no idea how close America came to a second Cuban Missile Crisis.
"It was very tense," a senior defense official told the Post two years later. "We were up all night for weeks. We prepared the war plans, the options. It was horrible."
"At Camp H.M. Smith in Honolulu, Adm. Joseph W. Prueher [now U.S. Ambassador to China] ordered his U.S. Pacific Command to form a 'crisis action team' to coordinate intelligence and air-and-sea operations around the clock."
"Chinese public rhetoric became as warlike as any heard in decades, including vows to 'bury' the Americans if it came to a fight."
Suddenly Gen. Xiong's threat to nuke Los Angeles seemed very real indeed. |
