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2006-03-21 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve 2006-03-21 09:43|| || Front Page|| [11145 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good for them.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-03-21 10:28|| 2006-03-21 10:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Surprise the Taiwanese aren't working in the background with the Israelis. Both know that they can not count on others to back them when the chips are down because of politics in their 'friends' countries.

Posted by Therese Omavimp4314 2006-03-21 10:48|| 2006-03-21 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Bravo, Taiwan. Next up should be a tidy little dam buster for Three Gorges. It's about time China got a nice slap in the face.

On reflection, this is much like Israel versus all the Arab states around it. Here's tiny Taiwan holding at bay (with our help) gigantic China. What a splendid thumb in the eye for China. This standoff must really frost the politburo's collective sphincters.

Posted by Zenster 2006-03-21 11:04|| 2006-03-21 11:04|| Front Page Top

#4 TO: Surprise the Taiwanese aren't working in the background with the Israelis.

The Israelis are too busy selling to the Chinese. That's a relationship worth billions, much more than they're ever going to get from the penny-pinching Taiwanese.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-03-21 11:33|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-03-21 11:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Scratch....

Posted by 6 2006-03-21 12:26|| 2006-03-21 12:26|| Front Page Top

#6 an isolationist....

Posted by 6 2006-03-21 12:27|| 2006-03-21 12:27|| Front Page Top

#7 them tai chi wordz 6er

Posted by jonesin 2006-03-21 13:02|| 2006-03-21 13:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Taiwan should also make an s-load of the cheapest possible medium-range (500 mile) missiles carrying ordinary high explosives. "Fat" missiles with perhaps 2000-lb. warheads.

The reason being that there are four major cities facing Taiwan on the mainland, in otherwise mountainous terrain. Each of these cities would act as a hub to transport weapons used against Taiwan. So if those four cities were reduced to rubble, only smaller "maintenance" attacks would be needed to radically increase the degree of difficulty for the mainland to attack Taiwan.

A more accurate guidance system would prevent any efforts by the mainland to blockade Taiwan, and with a time fuse would make a hella anti-sub weapon, once a sub had been detected with coastal sonar.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-03-21 13:28|| 2006-03-21 13:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Any chinese speakers in the house that can translate "Wan Chien"?

I bet it's scary.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-03-21 16:28|| 2006-03-21 16:28|| Front Page Top

#10 The ROC wouldn't hurt those cities. It would capture them if attacked!

Posted by 3dc 2006-03-21 17:56|| 2006-03-21 17:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Everybody Wan Chien tonight! Uh huh!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-03-21 19:34|| 2006-03-21 19:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Late last year, it was agreed that refusing the HARM made some practical sense as well, because the new Chinese air defense systems (the Russian SA-10 series) has a long range radar that could detect and nail a HARM carrying aircraft, before the HARM could be launched.

HARM has passive sensors. If the bird is low enough, SA-10 won't detect squat. Plus the PRC has IIRC only about 200 of them and they won't be sitting on the Taiwan Strait - they'll be around the leadership's bunkers.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-03-21 19:52|| 2006-03-21 19:52|| Front Page Top

#13 I wonder just how many nukes Taiwan has socked away here and there? We KNOW the Israelis have nukes. I'm sure Taiwan has at LEAST one, aimed at the Three Gorges Dam. Cleaning up after that would take all the energy China and ten other nations have. Just don't ask for OUR or Japan's help...

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-03-21 23:24|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-21 23:24|| Front Page Top

#14 Aw, hell, OP - I'd give 'em a hand.

*golf clap*

See, that wasn't hard, now was it? ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut 2006-03-21 23:28|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-03-21 23:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Wife isn't sure how to translate but suggests Wan Chien is closest in meaning to someing like I-Ching.

So "throw the dice".

A good name!

Posted by 3dc 2006-03-21 23:32|| 2006-03-21 23:32|| Front Page Top

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