China Threatens Nuclear War
The Financial Times reports a Chinese general said on Thursday that China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the U.S. if China is attacked by the U.S. during a confrontation over Taiwan:
“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.
Gen Zhu was speaking at a function for foreign journalists organised, in part, by the Chinese government. He added that China's definition of its territory included warships and aircraft.
“If the Americans are determined to interfere [then] we will be determined to respond,” said Gen Zhu, who is also a professor at China's National Defence University.
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.
According to the Financial Times, General Zhu is a self-acknowledged “hawk” who has warned that China could strike the US with long-range missiles.
The article also quotes Rick Fisher, a former senior US congressional official and an authority on the Chinese military, as saying "the specific nature of the threat 'is a new addition to China's public discourse'. China's official doctrine has called for no first use of nuclear weapons since its first atomic test in 1964. But Gen Zhu is not the first Chinese official to refer to the possibility of using such weapons first in a conflict over Taiwan."
America needs to wake up and begin getting involved with our trade and foreign poicy practices, especially with China. These people are not like us, they are communists, they are believe in opressive regimes. I dont think we will see WW3 anytime soon. I'd like to be the one pushing the button if we do!
Posted by: MJ | Tuesday, September 06, 2005 at 01:34 PM
u guys are all pretty paranoid... none of this is ever going to happen.. i can kick all of your asses in a heartbeat.. u damn americans!!
Posted by: Eitay Hirshburg | Tuesday, August 23, 2005 at 02:58 AM
I agree, i smell the becoming of ww3 , hope i am wrong. Also I agree, what the hell are we doing ? Why arent we addressing this issue? Some one crashes planes into our cities, and we go and slap the crap outta them , yet however someone makes a NUCLEAR threat, and we see nothing being done, we should be HO'SLAPPIN THESE PUNKS!!!
Posted by: Jesse M | Tuesday, August 16, 2005 at 09:48 PM
I agree, I heard of the threat by word of mouth, not on the news. Im surprised this isnt on the front page of every newspaper in America. It's a scary thought that the Chinise are so quick to throw that threat at us.
Posted by: Shane | Sunday, July 31, 2005 at 08:40 PM
General Zhu is hoping for his 3rd star .
I compare him to goeppels (Nazi-Germany before invading polen 1939)
Pakistani and chinese submarines training off coast cuba
we need to prepare to dessable them .
hlg
Posted by: hlg | Sunday, July 31, 2005 at 03:48 PM
what i don't understand is why lou dobbs is the only news program, that is covering the chinese general's threat, of attacking us with nuclear weopons? shouldn't a possible nuclear war, be on the front burner of our national security,or at least other news agencies?
Posted by: jesse d. carter | Saturday, July 16, 2005 at 02:59 AM
china is threatening our national security,at the very least taiwan's security. i think we are looking at the opening days of w.w.111,a nuclear war. i hope to god i'm wrong. our government needs to wake up. instead of kissing china's butt we should be in their face.
Posted by: jesse d. carter | Saturday, July 16, 2005 at 02:44 AM
Just a footnote of Chinese 'peaceful rising'.
Posted by: bellevue | Friday, July 15, 2005 at 10:19 AM