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2004-08-10 China-Japan-Koreas

China will have 800 missiles aimed at Taiwan by 2005

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Posted by Zenster 2004-08-10 6:50:06 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Time to bring back the Ground Launched Cruise Missiles and sell them to Taiwan. Cheap, accurate, and with a 1500 mile range, sure to put the fear of Jesus into Mao's successors.

Posted by ed 2004-08-10 20:45|| 2004-08-10 20:45|| Front Page Top

#2 hmmmmm - any reactors in Taiwan? Too lazy to google for it...thought somebody here would know off the bat

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2004-08-10 21:03|| 2004-08-10 21:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Your wish is my command, Frank. Here is some info and a history of Taiwan's nuclear effort. From the posting:

Current status

Presently Taiwan appears to have heeded the warnings, and there is no evidence that it has engaged in any weaponization research or activities since the late 1980s. It has a robust civilian nuclear power industry consisting of six nuclear units with a total output capacity of over 5,000MW, and it is in the final construction stages for two-1,350MW Lungmen Advanced Boiling Water Reactors (ABWR), a project that is unpopular with local residents and anti-nuclear activists.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-08-10 21:13|| 2004-08-10 21:13|| Front Page Top

#4 so whadya think? Nukes in the basement?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2004-08-10 21:14|| 2004-08-10 21:14|| Front Page Top

#5 I figure if John Kerry wins the election the Chicoms will see a green light, guaranteeing 2005 will be a most exciting year.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-08-10 21:22|| 2004-08-10 21:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Anybody want to bet Free China does not have a nuclear program? My best guess is that Free China and Japan could have device(s) assembled within two weeks from a "go" signal. They have everything they need, or can buy it Fed Ex overnight.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2004-08-10 21:53|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-08-10 21:53|| Front Page Top

#7 that was my point - if I was Taiwan, I'd have done my best to assue MAD to the politburo themselves or their financial holdings they treasure so much

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2004-08-10 22:05|| 2004-08-10 22:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Any thoughts on how many of those 800 missiles would actually work if the order came?

Posted by trailing wife 2004-08-10 23:42|| 2004-08-10 23:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Taiwan let slip a while back that the 3 Gorges dam would be high on its list--kind of the gift that keeps on giving. The first mainland response was utter outrage, then denial that Taiwan could *do* such a thing to their pretty dam, which will last 1000 years.
Bye-bye Wuhan and Shanghai. (nice map.)

http://www.irn.org/programs/threeg/map.jpg

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-08-10 23:58|| 2004-08-10 23:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Any thoughts on how many of those 800 missiles would actually work if the order came?

NATO dropped 11,650 bombs during the Kosovo campaign. Serbia's air force survived the campaign intact. The US and allied air forces dropped 6,000 bombs on Afghanistan against the Taliban. China's missiles can hit within 500 feet of the target, at best. Each American smart bomb can hit within 50 feet of the target. I seriously doubt that China's missiles are going to do much more than create a big mess - they aren't accurate enough to destroy Taiwan's airfields.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2004-08-11 00:02|| http://www.polipundit.com]">[http://www.polipundit.com] 2004-08-11 00:02|| Front Page Top

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