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To: Hank Stamper who wrote (12670)	3/22/2000 1:20:00 PM
From: rsie	Respond to of 15132

thank you both for your support... I think everyone is under the mistaken belief that since china is our "strategic partner" as the administration would like us to believe that all is under control... here is another link: msnbc.com here is the contents from another link: Newspaper reports plan to attack Taiwan Threat of nuclear war, seizing U.S. assets mentioned By Antoaneta Bezlova and Paul Wiseman USA TODAY An obscure but official Chinese newspaper has described plans to invade Taiwan with a fleet of 200,000 fishing boats and to frighten the United States into staying out of the Taiwan Straits by threatening nuclear war, selling nukes to rogue states and seizing U.S. assets in China. The reports, in a weekly called Cape of Good Hope, are in sharp contrast to China's otherwise restrained response to Taiwan's presidential election Saturday. China had warned before the election that a vote for Chen might mean war. Taiwan and China have been ruled by separate governments since 1949. China, however, still claims the island and has threatened to attack if it declares independence. Since Chen was elected, however, Chinese leaders have toned down their harsh rhetoric. They said they would take a wait-and-see attitude toward Taiwan's president-elect and might be willing to meet with him. Chen has promised not to declare independence without voter approval. A bellicose response to Chen's victory appeared on the pages of Cape of Good Hope, which is published by the Science and Technology Digest newspaper. Unlike other Chinese newspapers that ran brief accounts of Chen's victory, the weekly devoted 16 pages Sunday to the election. It warned of dire consequences if Chen pursued a pro-independence agenda and if the United States intervened on Taiwan's behalf. The newspaper said: * China might attack Taiwan with an armada of 200,000 fishing boats, manned by 2 million soldiers and armed with bazookas. The newspaper noted that a similar ploy worked for the Communists during the Chinese civil war and calculated that China would lose only 3,000 fishing boats. * To prevent the United States from interfering on Taiwan's behalf, China would conduct civil defense drills to scare the United States into believing that a nuclear war was coming. If that failed, China would turn up the heat by abandoning its 'no-first-use' of nuclear weapons policy and test a nuclear weapon. * In a conflict, China would consider freezing U.S. assets and businesses in China; dispatch agents in America on 'subversive activities;' seek diplomatic support from friendly states such as Russia; and sell nuclear arms to Iran, Iraq, North Korea and others. * China might unilaterally declare a deadline for Taiwan to begin talks aimed at reunifying with the mainland if the island continues to 'procrastinate' on reunification. In an official position paper issued last month, China warned it might use military force if Taiwan postponed reunification talks 'indefinitely.' The Cape of Good Hope conceded that other countries might impose trade sanctions if China invaded Taiwan and that the sanctions might hurt the Chinese economy. But the newspaper argued that the sanctions wouldn't last long. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke, in Beijing for two days of talks, said today that he believed China was holding a cautious attitude our talks here was encouraging, and we felt there was a constructive atmosphere on the question of Taiwan,' Holbrooke said. It's hard to say whether the obscure Cape of Good Hope speaks for anyone influential in the Chinese leadership. A Beijing vendor said the newspaper was published by the military. Laurence Brahm, whose Beijing consulting firm Naga tracks the Chinese media and the doings of the leadership, said he's never heard of it. Besides, he said, 'No one wants war.' Ken Allen, a former military attach‚ to China, said the newspaper reflects 'some views' within the government but not a consensus. 'The scenarios which are described in the article have been bandied about for many, many years,' said Allen, a defense analyst at the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, which researches arms control issues. Asked about the newspaper report, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon replied, 'All I can tell you is that on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the militaries seem to be calm and restrained.'