An Interesting Exchange...
Word Chess, anyone?
CHINA: ..."If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China’s territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons,” said General Zhu Chenghu.
..."We . . . will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds . . . of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.”
...Gen Zhu...has warned that China could strike the US with long-range missiles. [hmmm… wonder where they got those?]
...Gen Zhu said his views did not represent official Chinese policy and he did not anticipate war with the US.
And we said:
DC: State Department spokesman Sean McCormack ..."I haven’t seen all the remarks but what I’ve seen of them, I’ll say that they’re irresponsible,"
Thus making Gen. Zhu look rather a loose canon and lose face. I wonder how long he will keep his job.
Seriously—everyone knows ya don’t wanna nuke your enemy’s assets. Just buy ‘em.
Claire,
Did you see this?
http://gullyborg.typepad.com/weblog_archive/2005/07/china_and_threa.html
Gully
Posted by Gullyborg on 07/18/05 at 02:18 PM
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