China Times reported on Wednesday,
August 9 that more than 400 guided missiles had been
deployed by China along the Taiwan Strait. The
information comes from the 2000 National Defense
Report released by the Ministry of National Defense (MND)
and states that the missiles cover all of Taiwan.
China also has been rapidly modernizing its military
with state of the art weapons like the Sovremenny
class destroyer that carries the new Moskit SS-N22
(Sunburn) anti-ship missiles that, according to
Congressional testimony, can penetrate defense
measures surrounding US aircraft carriers.
US Pacific Fleet Vulnerable
Worse, the Clinton Administration
has deliberately taken no steps to develop
countermeasures for this new weapon. In a March 25,
2000 WorldNetDaily article, Al Santoli, national
security advisor to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R.-CA
stated "This is an example of the criminal
abandonment of essential military research and
development by the Clinton administration.... The Clinton administration is responsible for
this lapse in critical research. We have known about
the Sunburn for years. We could have, and should have,
developed a counter before this."
This is no light matter. On
Wednesday, July 5, Presidents Vladimir Putin and Jiang
Zemin met in Tajikistan and agreed that Russia would
deploy its Pacific fleet to the Taiwan Strait area to
defend China against the U.S. Pacific Fleet if China
attacked Taiwan and the U.S. responded by sending its
Pacific Fleet to help Taiwan. Along with China's new
Sovremenny class destroyer and Moskit anti-aircraft
carrier Sunburn missiles, Russia would have several
ships with the same capability. While these Russian
and Chinese ships would be vulnerable to our Los
Angeles class super silent attack submarines, the
chances of losing an aircraft carrier has escalated
significantly. That's not all.
On Monday, August 8, Moscow
announced it is now selling advanced warships, capable
of sinking an aircraft carrier along with its escort
vessels. Russia claims the ships "will be
particularly in demand" in two of the world's
most volatile trouble spots -- the Asia Pacific region
and the Middle East. Named "Scorpion," this
class of vessel, says Moscow, is part of a "new
generation of ships aided by the use of stealth
technology," and has the ability to fire a
missile that can "eliminate an aircraft carrier
and its escort ships.... Missiles of this kind have no
analogue anywhere in the world." It is most
likely this is the Chelomey Granit missile, NATO
code-named SS-N-19 Shipwreck. The shipwreck missile
has a range of 200 miles.
If the Chinese could get the
Sunburn or Shipwreck anti-ship missiles close enough
to the U.S. Pacific Fleet, it could possibly decimate
the fleet. DTT believes that is why China has been
bragging it can take the Pacific Fleet out in 30
minutes.
An attack on Taiwan will not likely
be conventional
The type of weapons China has
purchased or developed very strongly suggest that they
will use EMP and Neutron nuclear bombs or a hybrid of
both. The technology for both bombs was stolen from
the US during the early years of the Clinton
Administration. The EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse)
nuclear bomb, emits a huge electromagnetic pulse
designed to melt sensitive electronic circuitry of
weapons and their control equipment. Our military
hardware is supposed to be hardened against such
attacks, but the Chinese seem to think they can
penetrate our hardening. The hemorrhaging of nuclear
weapons secrets during the Clinton administration
gives some credibility to this concern.
The Neutron nuclear bomb is very
localized (radius usually well under a couple of
miles) and kills all biological life, but has very
little destructive power leaving the physical
infrastructure intact. There is no protection against
this weapon except deep or water-lined bunkers. Most
of the 400 plus short to medium range Chinese missiles
along the Taiwan Strait can be fitted with these new
nuclear devices.
Most military strategists believe
that China will use its airforce and army to attack
Taiwan, which would likely result in defeat for China
from the combined forces of Taiwan and the U.S.
Pacific Fleet. However, China may not have to confront
the US Pacific Fleet to attack Taiwan. Also, the
evidence that China intends to use over 400 missiles
to neutralize Taiwan's airforce and military bases
with neutron/EMP nuclear bombs dispels that theory
once and for all. DTT has been warning since the first
of the year that if an attack comes it will be in the
form of lightning strikes using these
missiles. There is still a risk for China, but
not nearly as much as previously thought.
A grim threat to America
But that is yet another concern
that has been voiced by DTT since last August. In
addition to the military news on Wednesday, August 8,
NewsMax Money News cited a Blanchard Economic Research
Unit (BERU) report warning that "Red China was
moving to penetrate the U.S. securities markets,
posing a direct threat to both U.S. national security
and your financial security." Not only were
profits made by China in the US securities market
going into China's massive military buildup, but as
3rd largest holder of U.S. Treasury debt, "If and
when the Chinese choose to liquidate their massive
Treasury holdings, the stability of the U.S. financial
markets could be jeopardized," reported NewsMax.
This is no accident. BERU also
reported in October 1999 that China's new military
doctrine advocates terrorism, biochemical warfare,
environmental damage and computer viruses as a means
to pitch the West into political and economic
crisis." As reported by DTT Digest in August,
1999, this strategy "surpasses all boundaries and
restrictions.... It takes nonmilitary forms and
military forms and creates a war on many fronts. It is
the war of the future."
First reported by DTT Digest in
August of 1999, the Chinese attack scenario that has
emerged includes preemptive terrorist attacks on the
U.S. using cyber warfare and weapons of mass
destruction to throw the U.S. into chaos and keep
America out of their war. The terrorism can easily be
blamed on Osama bin Laden--at least long enough for
them to secure Taiwan and the Spratly Islands.
This is not idle speculation.
Secretary of Defense William Cohen told NBC
television's "Meet the Press" program,
"There is a chance it is going to happen. The
likelihood of an attack on American soil, using either
a chemical or biological or, indeed, a nuclear weapon,
is quite, not only possible, but probable.... No
country is going to take us on head-on," said
Cohen. "They'll look for asymmetric types of
threats and attacks, for example, through the use of
chemical or biological agents, through the use of
cyberattacks," he explained.
Cohen’s concern has been backed
up with major full-scale mock terrorism attacks in
major US cities to test America's ability to respond
to this kind of terrorism. The most recent was called
TOPOFF and was held May 20-22.
China seems to be depending on the threat of
financial, biological and/or nuclear terrorism to keep
the US at bay. China’s new nuclear missiles can take
out Taiwan’s military installations, air fields, and
ships in minutes, reducing China’s dependence on its
airforce. Taiwan’s vastly superior air force seems
to be effectively neutalized. And, with Russia's
Pacific fleet and the China/Russia ability to possibly
take out our aircraft carriers, China has become a
real threat with which to dominate West Pacific
policy, including that of Taiwan, dramatically
shifting the balance of power in the emerging world
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