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China Ready To Use N-Weapons Agains't U.S.A.Article at
www.drudgereport.com I believe China could get ready to kiss a LOT of
their stuff Goodbye! U.S.A.has some "Toys" the Chicoms don't know
about.Good thing klintoon still isn't the prez. www.softwar.net
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China prepares for war with U.S. over Taiwan

"Use reality, make a noise in the east, but strike to the west. Cut time and
strike in multiple waves."
-- PLA Col. Wang Benzhi, on missile strikes against Taiwan

Missiles targeted at American cities

``DSP reports five events from known ICBM bases in western China.'' The
airman's voice was tense but carried an air of nonchalance, a sign of
rigorous training.

The airman was stationed inside a dimly lit command bunker nearly a mile
beneath Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain, along with 20 other airmen, soldiers
and sailors from the U.S. and Canadian militaries. This is headquarters for
the North American Aerospace Defense Command, known as NORAD.

At NORAD, they think about the unthinkable 24 hours a day, seven days a
week. Closed to the outside world by huge steel doors designed to withstand
a nuclear attack, the bunker is where military personnel scan the globe from
computer terminals, looking for signs of missile launches. They depend on
infrared sensors around the world, primarily the constellation of satellites
with the nondescript name of Defense Support Program - or DSP, as the airman
said.

The five ``hot pops'' he reported as picked up by satellite over China were
the first sign of trouble. Less than a minute later came more bad news:
``Sir . . . we have multiple missile launches. Stand by for target report.''
A few seconds later, the intelligence officer on duty broadcast further
details: ``Intel indicates probable launch of five ICBMs from China. Intel
assesses this to be combat against North America.''

Each of the CSS-4s carries a huge, 5-megaton warhead with the equivalent of
5 million tons of TNT - enough to blow up an entire city. NORAD's
computerized attack-warning network plotted the targets of the incoming
ICBMs and they appeared as dots on the giant map: Seattle, Colorado Springs
(site of the Cheyenne Mountain complex), Chicago, New York and Washington.

Air Force Col. Allen Baker, NORAD's director of operations, explained that
confirmation of Chinese missile launches would be followed by a call to the
White House.

``At this point, I'd be telling the president how many minutes until
Washington, D.C., is gone,'' Col. Baker said.

Flight time from China to the capital: about 35 minutes. Asked whether the
U.S. military had the means to shoot down the incoming missiles, Col. Baker
said, ``Absolutely nothing.''
....
On June 27, 1998, Chinese President Jiang Zemin appeared at a news
conference after meetings with Mr. Clinton in Beijing. He announced:
``President Clinton and I have decided that China and the United States will
not target the strategic nuclear weapons under their respective control at
each other. This demonstrates to the entire world that China and the United
States are partners, not adversaries.''

As with so many other statements by the Chinese Communist leader, President
Jiang lied. The proof arrived in a form common during the highly politicized
Clinton administration. It was kept hidden from public view as part of a
classified intelligence assessment. On Dec. 2, 1998, the Pentagon's Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) reported that the Chinese People's Liberation Army
conducted exercises that included simulated nuclear missile attacks on
Taiwan and U.S. military forces in the region.

The exercises, which ran from late November to early December, involved
road-mobile CSS-5 medium-range missiles spotted by U.S. spy satellites as
they moved up and down roads along China's coast. The DIA report, based on
sensitive intelligence gathered by U.S. spying systems, also cited
activities by silo-based CSS-2s.

``They were doing mock missile attacks on our troops,'' said one official
who saw the report.

Analysts determined that the mock nuclear attacks not only were targeted
against Taiwan, but against about 37,000 U.S. Army troops based in South
Korea and 47,000 Marines in Japan, including 25,000 on the island of
Okinawa.
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The goal of Communist China is to exclude the United States both
economically and militarily from the Asian-Pacific region. The grave fault
in this logic is that the United States, geographically, economically and
politically, IS an Asian-Pacific nation. The United States will always have
an intimate strategic interest in the region.