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To: IceShark who wrote (13619)	2/29/2000 2:18:00 PM
From: Lucretius	Respond to of 42523

i make no claims as to any knowledge of where MU will be tomrrow let alone a few months from now. it is the ultimate POS...

To: IceShark who wrote (13619)	2/29/2000 2:51:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42523

Was this already posted? China threatens US with missile strikes over Taiwan: washingtontimes.com >>February 29, 2000 China threatens U.S. with missile strike By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES China stepped up its war of words over Taiwan yesterday, bluntly threatening to fire long-range nuclear missiles at the United States if it defends the island. The warning, published in the official People's Liberation Army newspaper, comes as a U.S. aircraft carrier and two cruise-missile destroyers recently began exercises off Japan. Defense officials said the warships could be sent to the Taiwan Strait in a crisis. The official military newspaper, Liberation Army Daily, stated in a commentary made public in Beijing that U.S. intervention in a conflict between China and Taiwan would result in "serious damage" to U.S. security interests in Asia. The military then warned that China could resort to long-range missile attacks on the United States during a regional conflict. "China is neither Iraq nor Yugoslavia but a very special country," the newspaper stated. While China is a permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations, "on the other hand, it is a country that has certain abilities of launching strategic counterattack and the capacity of launching a long-distance strike," the article said. "It is not a wise move to be at war with a country such as China, a point which the U.S. policy-makers know fairly well also," the newspaper said. "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," the paper said. The article was unusually harsh, according to Pentagon officials familiar with the translation, and echoed a private warning made in 1995 by Chinese Lt. Gen. Xiong Guangkai. Gen. Xiong, the PLA's top intelligence and foreign policy official, told a former Pentagon official at that time that Washington would not help defend Taiwan because it cared more about Los Angeles than Taiwan. The remark was reported to the White House as a threat to use nuclear weapons. China's nuclear arsenal currently includes about 24 CSS-4 long-range missiles that are capable of hitting most of the United States with warheads of up to 5 megatons ? the equivalent of 5 million tons of TNT. It is building two other road-mobile ICBMs and a new class of strategic missile submarines. One U.S. official said PLA threats appeared to be a response to statements made last week by Walter Slocombe, undersecretary of defense for policy. Mr. Slocombe told reporters China would suffer "incalculable consequences" if it attacked the island. Mr. Slocombe's statement also brought a complaint from some pro-China officials at the White House and State Department who objected to the Pentagon's tough stance. Meanwhile, several ships from the carrier battle group led by the USS Kitty Hawk began conducting exercises in the Pacific on Wednesday ? two days after Beijing issued an ominous written warning that it will use force against Taiwan if the island continues to delay reunification with the mainland. Pentagon officials said privately the carrier deployment is part of U.S. diplomatic efforts to discourage China from conducting threatening war games, as occurred in 1996 around the time of Taiwan's first presidential elections. A senior military official said the carrier exercises were scheduled weeks ago. However, the official noted that carriers in the past have been used to send diplomatic signals. "Timing is everything in these things," the official said. The ships are deployed in waters east of central Japan. The ship will be at sea for 12 days before returning to its home port of Yokosuka, Japan. Officially, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Terry Sutherland said the Kitty Hawk is engaged in "general quarters" training after spending months in port in Japan. The deployment is not related to the release of China's white paper or the upcoming Taiwanese presidential elections, he said. However, asked if the battle group could be called into action in a Taiwan crisis, Cmdr. Sutherland said: "Sure. That's the purpose of forward-deployed carriers."<<