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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent?

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To: philv who wrote (23325)7/15/2005 6:58:10 AM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) of 81141
 
Phil > I believe (China's) aim is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power and, if necessary, to defeat us militarily," Frank Gaffney, a Pentagon strategist under the late President Ronald Reagan, told the hearing

"If necessary" is the operative phrase. Of course, the US will now regard anyone who is prepared to resist an attack by it not only as an aggressor but as a terrorist and especially if that nation wants to buy an interest in its oil business.

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>>China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the US if it is attacked by Washington during a confrontation over Taiwan, a Chinese general said on Thursday.

“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,” said General Zhu Chenghu.<<
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