[Shaun @ Tru6]

So 2 weeks ago, on July 4th actually, we got a message from the Chinese Foreign Ministry RE: Unocal.

"We demand that the U.S. Congress correct its mistaken ways of politicizing economic and trade issues and stop interfering in the normal commercial exchanges between enterprises of the two countries."

That was nice, but now a Chinese major general has gotten into the act:

As reported on CNN, July 14 (does Fox even know where China is? no coverage on this stuff at all... yet some white blonde girl goes missing and it's 24/7 updates with special interest in threats to Aruba)

Zhu Chenghu, a major general in the People's Liberation Army who said he was expressing his own views and did not anticipate a conflict with Washington, nevertheless said China would have no option but to go nuclear in the event of an attack.

"If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition onto the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons," he told an official briefing for international journalists.

Beijing considers Taiwan part of China, and has vowed to bring the self-governed democracy back into the fold. In March, China's parliament passed an anti-secession law authorizing the use of "non-peaceful means" to do so.

Zhu said the threat to escalate a conflict might be the only way to stop one because China did not have the capability to fight a conventional war with the United States.

"If the Americans are determined to interfere ... we will be determined to respond," he said.

"We Chinese 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," he added.


The New Right, start beating your chests now, but only until you need to borrow more money from China. Oh, that would be $2B tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day.

have fun, and thanks for f*cking up the future of our country playing in the Sand with the greatest risk to the American Way of Life considered 2 guys (or girls) kissing. Nevermind Communist China will own us soon. That's not a threat, that's capitalism, democracy in action, the new middle class will revolt, blah, blah, blah.