China vs USA

Gonz

Gonz

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That's been my prediction & fear of where all this will lead, eventually. It may be closer than even I feared. Let's hope not.

Pentagon: China gearing for Taiwan attack
By EUN-KYUNG KIM Associated Press Writer 07/31/2003

WASHINGTON -- China is boosting its missile stocks and military budget to prepare for what could be a quick and brutal showdown with Taiwan -- and to prevent U.S. forces from getting in the way, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Defense officials said China was emphasizing a "surprise, deception and shock" doctrine in its campaign against Taiwan, which Beijing considers a renegade province.

"Preparing for a potential conflict in the Taiwan Strait is the primary driver for China's military modernization," the Pentagon said in its annual evaluation of China's military.

While focusing on Taiwan, China is developing weapons systems that would impede U.S. intervention on behalf of the island in any future conflict, the report found.

"Beijing apparently believes that the United States poses a significant long-term challenge. China's leaders have asserted that the United States seeks to maintain a dominant geostrategic position by containing the growth of Chinese power, ultimately 'dividing' and 'Westernizing' China," the report said.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing had no immediate comment on the report.

China has about 450 short-range ballistic missiles but is expected to increase its inventory by more than 75 missiles each year, defense officials reported. Last year, the Pentagon estimated that China's military had acquired 350 ballistic missiles and was adding at a rate of 50 a year.
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Still feeling safe Gonz? Our aggression in a coutry with apparently no nuclear weapons program and no means to deliver such weapons, has caused a country with a known nuclear weapons program and the means to deliver them, to step up production. Another of your benefits of our actions, I guess....:shrug:
 
Squiggy the Merciliess said:
a country with a known nuclear weapons program and the means to deliver them
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How, pray tell, did they get so advanced so quickly? Wasn't it just, oh, about, say, 10 years ago they couldn't attack anyone out of their sphere?

Had you taken time to read the story, you'd know they're not attacking us, they're following thru on a long term threat to re-take Taiwan & that, by matter of treaty, involves us. That danger wasn't really there in 1991.
 
Uh...Gonz...I doubt they think they need tons of nukes to handle Taiwan. Those are for expected intervention by the US....And I did read it. :p
 
What the hell are you doing posting anyway? I thought you gave forums up for the shoutbox :D
 
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