#8: 04.12.23=4: China-Taiwan-USA.

1) "U.S. at War With Beijing, Reports Cite China as No. 1 Threat", by Charles R. Smith, Thursday, June 17, 2004 http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/6/17/135930.shtml "" The U.S. government has cited China as the No. 1 threat to global security for the second time in less than a month. Both the Pentagon and the Commission on U.S-China Economic and Security Review cited Beijing as a major threat to U.S. national security. The two reports noted the growing military capability of China combined with its predatory economic policy is aimed directly at the United States. The latest report released by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission "" Economic War ... ... the Chinese yuan is undervalued ... ... ... ... China is violating its pledges to the World Trade Organization and that U.S. investors may actually be investing in the PLA military expansion. "China has deliberately frustrated the effectiveness and debased the value of the WTO's TRM (Transitional Review Mechanism) which was intended to be a robust mechanism for assessing China's WTO compliance and for placing multilateral pressure on China to address compliance shortfalls." Weapons for Oil ... ... China continues to proliferate advanced weapons to many of its client states including North Korea, Pakistan, and Iran. ... ... "China has sought energy cooperation with countries of concern to the United States, including Iran and Sudan, which are inaccessible by U.S. and other western firms. Some analysts have voiced suspicions that China may have offered WMD-related transfers as a component of some of its energy deals," noted the Commission. New Weapons ... ... Russia has sold China a more advanced version of the deadly SUNBURN (3M83 Moskit) cruise missile. Nikolay Shcherbakov, adviser to the director general of the Altair Naval Scientific Research Institute of Electronic Engineering, is reported as saying that "we are supplying China with new-generation equipment. We have been allowed to supply MOSKIT supersonic antiship cruise missiles with twice the range - 240km instead of the existing 120." The Commission also noted a growing concern that China would use nuclear weapons to attack and defeat U.S. forces in the event of a war over Taiwan. "Recognizing the possible involvement of the U.S. military, the current scholarship on China's R & D finds that PRC strategists believe that a superior navy could be defeated through the disabling of its space-based systems, as for example, by exo-atmospheric detonation of a nuclear warhead to generate an electromagnetic pulse," stated the report. In addition, the Commission noted that China is pursuing an advanced laser weapon for use against Taiwanese and U.S. forces. "It has recently been reported that China has successfully developed a laser cannon with a range of more than one hundred kilometers and might have already deployed it in Fujian Province facing Taiwan." Shooting War in 2005 ... ... "The China Affairs Department of the Democratic Progressive Party published a report on China's basic military capabilities in which it said that Beijing had developed a 'sudden strike' strategy to attack Taiwan. This story discussed a scenario in which an attack would consist of an initial seven-minute shock and strike missile barrage that would paralyze Taiwan's command system, followed by seventeen minutes in which Taiwan's air space will be invaded by fighter jets. Within twenty-four hours of the strike, 258,000 Chinese troops could be deployed in Taiwan. China's fast-growing military modernization and expansion is aimed at a possible war between 2005 and 2010, according to the report," stated the Commission report In early June the Pentagon released a Congressionally mandated report on Chinese military developments. ... ... ... ... According to the report, the Chinese build-up of ballistic missiles has changed the balance of power in the Pacific, threatening to start a war over Taiwan. China currently has an estimated 550 short-range missiles opposite Taiwan. "China most likely will be able to cause significant damage to all of Taiwan's airfields and quickly degrade Taiwan's ground based air-defenses and associated command and control through a combination of SRBMs (short range ballistic missiles), land-attack cruise missiles, special operation forces and other assets," stated the Pentagon report. The Pentagon report noted that China is increasing its long-range missile capability and is expected to expand its inventory to 30 such missiles by the end of 2005. The Pentagon anticipates the Chinese long-range nuclear missile force will exceed 60 before the end of the decade. Nuclear War The Pentagon report also warned that Chinese military strategists are considering the use of nuclear weapons against U.S. and Taiwanese forces. According to the Pentagon, a nuclear weapon detonated at high altitude would create an "electromagnetic" shock wave that will disrupt U.S. communications and scramble sophisticated military computers. "PLA theorists who have become aware of these electromagnetic effects may have considered using a nuclear weapon as an unconventional attack option," stated the Pentagon report. Chinese authorities have reacted explosively to the recent reports, especially over the U.S. commitment to Taiwan. ... ... 2) From "The Future of China & the Communist Party" forum, by The Epoch Times: http://english.epochtimes.com/ "Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal", by Ethan Gutmann: on China of "" the world's greatest Big Brother Internet "" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/189355483X/qid=1103854322/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-3647300-9952135 "" From Book News, Inc. Beginning in 1998, Gutmann (a visiting fellow at Project for the New American Century) spent three years in Beijing working on television documentaries for a Chinese company. His position provided him with a discomforting insider's view of the commercial world of Chinese elites and American expatriates. In this memoir of those years he criticizes America's "engagement" with China as being guided solely by commercial concerns and worries that this has allowed China to neglect political reforms while building up its economic and military base in a process that will inevitable threaten American interests. Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Product Description: Arriving in Beijing in 1998 along with other Americans searching for the riches of the new China, Ethan Gutmann rapidly made his way into the expatriate community of American entrepreneurs. For them, Beijing was an Open City inside a controlled world. Entering this well-catered equivalent of a corporate boot camp, Gutmann was indoctrinated in the creed that China's growing strength presented untapped opportunities for profit and expansion. American entrepreneurs might say -- and even believe -- that they were bringing freedom to China, but they were actually engaged in what Gutmann calls "climbing the Gold Mountain." Over the next three years, as Gutmann worked his way into comfortable positions at a Chinese television documentary company and a public affairs firm conducting U.S. politicians on carefully choreographed tours of the New China, he became an insider. But above all, this book is a carefully documented report on a commercial world without moral landmarks or boundaries, where actions have unintended consequences. Writing from the ground zero of his daily experience, Gutmann shows how massive American investment generated prosperity -- but also a feverish new nationalism which surged into China's universities, the dot.coms, and the entrepreneurial centers. Beginning with the riots over the 1999 Belgrade embassy bombing, he witnessed an eruption of anti-Americanism and a spurning of democracy even as U.S. technology and communication companies executed wholesale transfer of America's most sophisticated technologies to the Chinese market. With the full cooperation of companies such as Cisco, Sun Microsystems, and Yahoo!, Chinese authorities used American technology to monitor, sanitize, and ultimately isolate the Chinese web, creating the world's greatest Big Brother Internet. ""