According to the NY Times and Financial Times, there's a crazy Chinese general who threatens to use nukes if the US interferes with a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
"If the Americans are determined to interfere, then we will be determined to respond," he said. "We Chinese will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all the cities east of Xian. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese."Also the cities west of Xian and the spaces in between. This is the kind of idiotic statement US generals stopped making in the 1950's becuase it became obvious that it was useless, stupid, and dangerous. Kind of makes one want to be sure to hit all the Chinese ICBMs and subs in the opening shots of any conflict.
But in any event, we do need to decide what to do about the Chinese buying Unocal. Hmmmm. How about "No" and blame General Xhu.
Posted by Kevin Murphy at July 15, 2005 12:18 AM