Chinese General Threatens Nuclear Use Against U.S.
July 15, 2005 :: Washington Times :: News
China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the U.S. if attacked by Washington during a confrontation over Taiwan, a Chinese General reminded America in a recent press conference. Chinese General Zhu Chenghu is quoted as saying that, “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.” He added: “[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.”
The comment comes just as the Pentagon’s annual report on the military power of China is due to be released. (Article, Link)
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Taiwan to Get BMD Radar
June 30, 2005 :: Reuters :: News
The U.S. Air Force will provide Taiwan with the Early Warning Surveillance Radar, reports Reuters. The high-tech system will allow Taiwan to detect and track long- and short-range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, surface ships, and enemy aircraft. Once completed, it will be integrated with missile warning centers, and potentially the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) anti-missile system, which the United States has offered to sell Taiwan. The Early Warning Surveillance Radar will cost approximately $752 million, and is scheduled for delivery to Taiwan in September 2009. (Article, Link)
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Taiwan Fires Cruise Missile
June 7, 2005 :: AFP :: News
Taiwan has successfully test fired a cruise missile, reportedly its first, according to The China Times. The article suggests the test took place in March, during which Taiwan launched its new Hsuing Feng cruise missile from the Chiupeng military base in the southern Pingtung county. The missile is said to have a range of 1,000 km (620 miles) and could be used to attack targets in southeast China. The Hsuing Feng tested is said to have flown over 500 km (310 miles) before hitting its target. The missile could enter pilot production in late 2005 or early 2006.
The significance of such a test is that Taiwan is begun to produce a counter-deterrent to China’s large and growing threat of literally hundreds of both ballistic and cruise missiles stationed near and aimed toward Taiwan. The deterrent, however, is comparatively quite modest. (Article, Link)
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1,000 Chinese Missiles Near Taiwan by 2006
April 24, 2005 :: Taipei Times :: News
An official from Taiwan’s National Security Bureau told the Liberty Times, a sister publication of the Taipei Times, that China is expected to deploy some 200 additional land-attack cruise missiles within striking distance of Taiwan in the coming year, with more to follow in subsequent years. With these and other cruise missiles, and some 600 ballistic missiles, the number of missiles China will have deployed within range of Taiwan will rise to one thousand. China’s deployed land-attack cruise missiles forces are said to include the HN-1A, HN-2A/B, HN-3A, C-301, C-802, and HY-4 missiles. In addition, the official said that China has two types of submarine-launched cruise missiles, the HN-2C and HN-3B, both of which can travel more than 1,200kph. China’s ship-launched cruise missiles include advanced SS-N-22 and CTF-1 type missiles. The SS-N-22 is an advanced supersonic cruise missile, and the CTF-1 can be launched from warships 1,200km away from its target. (Article, Link)
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China to Have 800 Missiles Aimed at Taiwan in 2006
March 10, 2005 :: News
Taiwanese defense minister Lee Jye said in an address to the parliament that mainland China already has 700 missiles aimed at the tiny island nation, and that number will grow to 800 by 2006. (Article, Link)
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Chen: Chinese Short Range Missile Threat at 706 and Climbing
February 2, 2005 :: Reuters :: News
Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian recently delivered a speech reporting that the number of Chinese short range missiles deployed off the coast of Taiwan has now reached 706. The last number reported by Taiwan’s defense minister was 600, but Vice President Lu in August of 2004 claimed that China would reach 800 ballistic missiles deployed by 2005. U.S. intelligence reports have put China’s rate of increase in missiles deployed per year at 75, but if the steady reports from top Taiwanese officials are accurate, the actual rate is considerably more.
“I urge China to join the ranks of democratic-loving and peaceful Pacific nations and give up using military force to threaten neighboring countries,” Chen said in a speech on Monday to the parliament of the Solomon Islands. (Article, Link)
» Aug. 10, 2004: Taiwan VP claims 800 Chinese missiles deployed by 2005
» Sep. 30, 2004: Taiwan Defense Minister says 600 ballistic missiles, 200 cruise missiles already target island
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China: We Will Crush Any Taiwan Independence Attempt
December 27, 2004 :: ABC News :: News
A recent Chinese defense policy paper articulates and affirms the policy that Beijing will crush the small nation of Taiwan if the island publicly declares independence from the Communist mainland. The defense white paper described relations between the two countries as “grim,” and promised that “Should the Taiwan authorities go so far as to make a reckless attempt that constitutes a major incident of ‘Taiwan independence’, the Chinese people and armed forces will resolutely and thoroughly crush it at any cost.” The armed forces have a “sacred responsibility” to do so, it added. The paper comes in the midst of deliberations about an “anti-secession” law which would legally obligate military action in the case of publicly declared independence. (Article, Link)
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Bush: China Should Exercise Prudence, Restraint
November 26, 2004 :: Taipei Times :: News
During a recent meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Santiago, Chile, President Bush asked China to use restraint and prudence with regard to its large, and quickly expanding ballistic missile buildup off the coast of Taiwan. Sec. of State Colin Powell reported the president’s remarks to reporters, saying that Bush “expressed some concern over the fact that there are so many missiles in the Mainland that are pointed toward Taiwan, and we encouraged the Chinese side to act with restraint and prudence.†(Article, Link)
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China Complains that Taiwan is Building Missile Base
November 18, 2004 :: Xinhua :: News
Taiwan is constructing a large base at Jiupeng, located in Pingdong Province, at which it will deploy defensive Patriot missile interceptors. China is calling the base the largest in Asia, and a threat to peace.
After decades of development, Jiupeng Base gathers all the island’s secrets in high-precision observation, calculation, missile guidance, research and development, and is the island’s sole camp of test missile launch and important long-range projecting system tests. As Taiwan military boasted, the whole base is a small “space center” and its controlling center is no less than a “Space Center Houston” in a smaller scale.
The Xinhau news agency’s reference to the base as the largest in Asia must be properly understood, however. It is not as though the size of the missile base translates into a threat either to China or to other countries. China now has some 600 short range ballistic missiles off the coast of Taiwan, hundreds of cruise missiles, and a more advanced navy and air force. Taiwan’s capabilities are more defensive, but they are far from adequate. From China’s point of view, the concentration of so many important systems at one place could make it easier for them to all be destroyed together in a Chinese attack. (Article, Link)
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Pro-China NSC Staff Delaying Patriot Sale to Taiwan
November 9, 2004 :: East Asia Intel :: News
Pro-Chinese staff members of the White House National Security Council are said to be delaying the sale of Patriot missile defense interceptors to Taiwan—systems essential to the island’s deterrence of China’s rapid missile buildup. East Asia Intel reports that the “pro-China faction,” argues that since Taiwan’s military is infiltrated by Chinese agents, China could acquire additional classified technology. (Article, Link)
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