© 1999 Discerning the Times
Digest and NewsBytes
On March 16, Chen Shui bian was
elected president of Taiwan. For three weeks before the election, China
said it would go to war if Chen was elected. Since the election, China has
been silent, releasing only a military document that claimed it would use
neutron bombs to destroy the Taiwanese military and the U.S. Pacific
Fleet, if the U.S. intervened. Neutron bombs are nuclear bombs that kill
all life but do little collateral damage to structures and infrastructure.
Troops can enter an area hit by a neutron bomb within days of its
detonation.
After furious negotiations
between China-Russia and U.S.-Europe to work out a compromise to the
December 9, 1999 offer by President’s Jaing Zemin and Boris Yeltsin to
join the West in creating global governance, the negotiations apparently
collapsed on February 21 last month. The rhetoric of war has reached
stratospheric levels since then.
There is a real danger that the Jaing-Yeltsin
December Summit may have created a plan for a three front war between
China, Russia and North Korea with Taiwan, Azerbaijan-Georgia, and South
Korea. The U.S. cannot fight a three front war. Discerning the Times
is very concerned China and Russia will commit terrorist attacks on U.S.
cities using cyber warfare and weapons of mass destruction and blaming it
on Osama bin Laden. Laden is reported to have these weapons. The
resulting chaos and confusion would likely paralyze the U.S. V
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