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Last week's confrontation between
a Chinese attack submarine and destroyer, and the Navy aircraft carrier
Kitty Hawk in the Taiwan Straights is another in a series of wake-up
calls to the Chinese threat. It gains added poignancy with the release
of this paper which is consistent with what China watchers have been
warning about for the past 10 years. Couple that with the threat
of a President Hilly Clinton, and hie you to the bathroom before you
soil your pantaloons.
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In a hypothetical future scenario, the U.S. and China are poised to clash — likely over Taiwan.
The democratic Republic of China, commonly called Taiwan — which
America backs and the communist People’s Republic of China considers
part of its territory — frequently irritates Chinese leaders with calls
for greater independence from the mainland. But while the American
military mulls its options, Chinese missiles hit runways, fuel lines,
barracks and supply depots at U.S. Air Force bases in Japan and South
Korea. Long-range warheads destroy American satellites, crippling Air
Force surveillance and communication networks. A nuclear fireball
erupts high above the Pacific Ocean, ionizing the atmosphere and
scrambling radars and radio feeds.
This is China’s anti-U.S. sucker punch strategy. (cont)
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This article from the Taipei Times in 2005 caught my attention, and is I believe still operative.
| “ | When you come down to it, China would be a lot easier to take out
economically than most countries imagine. A country no longer needs an
army to take out China -- one would not even have to place a single
soldier in the country. All a country would have to do is to take out
key energy and industrial locations and it would implode. This is a
vulnerability that even Japan and other countries in the region could
exploit when threatened by China. [World must wake to China threat]
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