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2004-12-27 China-Japan-Koreas

China army will "crush" any Taiwan independence move

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Posted by Steve White 2004-12-27 1:18:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anguished outcry from the MSM and LLL in 3... 2... 1...

Okay, maybe not.

Posted by Dar 2004-12-27 9:56:18 AM|| 2004-12-27 9:56:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 A stupid question. If the Chinese Navy is the People's Liberation Army Navy, what do they call their Air Force?

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-12-27 4:14:56 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-12-27 4:14:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Here's hoping that Taiwan has several ready-to-assemble nuclear devices. Strikes upon the Three Gorges dam, Beijing, Shanghai and other domestic economic centers would quickly cripple communist China. It's high time for the politburo to enjoy a tall cool foamy refreshing glass of STFU.

Posted by Zenster 2004-12-27 5:31:40 PM|| 2004-12-27 5:31:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Zenster, would a couple of MOABs, or those cute new super-MOABs (whose name I can't remember) do the trick? I do so hate to pollute the water unnecessarily.

(It's so good to be back home at my own computer!)

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-27 11:11:27 PM|| 2004-12-27 11:11:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Getting ready for the Million-Man Swim, are they? Contrary to popular opinion and much MSM propaganda, Taiwan is in fact able to resist a mainland invasion. Preparing for that eventuality has been a public obsession on Taiwan ever since Chiang Kai Shek's Nationalists fled there in 1949. The island is a hedgehog of missiles and artillery and is honey-combed with shelters and fortifications. Pro-Chicom media take an opposite tack, obviously, hoping to substitute defeatist memes for the facts.
For example, I have seen one highly detailed MSM "analysis" that rates the Chinese T-59 tank an even match for the modernized M-60 used by Taiwan and their J-8 ~~target drone~~ fighter as the equal of Taiwan's F-16s and Mirage 2000s. Other qualitative aspects simply assume parity or a Communist advantage. Their prediction of likely scenarios included such fantasies as Mainland forces destroying the RoCAF (Taiwan Air Force) on the ground, and Communist "elite troops" seizing key ports and other transportation nodes. It is a well-kept secret, otoh, that Taiwan has some of the best trained pilots, artillerymen, and tankers in the world, and a very substantial and well-protected domestic munitions industry, and a huge militia organization that could go into action in a matter of minutes in some cases.
The mainland generals know all this, of course. The danger will come if the political leadership starts believing its own propaganda.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-27 11:19:03 PM|| 2004-12-27 11:19:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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