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Electronic telegraph-Sunday 17 October 1999
China's military plots 'dirty war' against the West
By David Harrison and Damien McElroy
AS PRESIDENT Jiang Zemin prepares for his state visit to Britain
this week, details have emerged of a bizarre Chinese plan to
destroy the West's financial institutions in the event of a major
conflict breaking out.
Senior members of the People's Liberation Army are openly urging
the Beijing government to abandon conventional defence strategies
and prepare a "dirty war". They advocate terrorism, biochemical
warfare, environmental damage and computer viruses as a means to
pitch the West into political and economic crisis.
The maverick officers maintain that China must use such tactics
because it cannot hope to match the West's military might. The
plans are revealed in a series of books and newspaper articles
published recently in China. One book, which was written by two
PLA air force colonels, lists 24 types of dirty war that could be
used to bring America and its allies to their knees.
Col Qiao Liang, the author of one of the books, justified the
eccentric advice in a full-page newspaper article: "All strong
countries make rules, while all rising ones break them and
exploit loopholes. Barbarians [a Chinese term for foreigners]
always rise by breaking the rules of civilised and developed
countries, which is what human history is all about." Although
the prospect of war between China and the West is a distant one,
disclosure of plans for a dirtywar will cause embarrassment for
President Jiang, who begins a four-day visit to Britain on
Tuesday, as well as for his hosts, the Queen and Prince Philip.
The 73-year-old president - the first Chinese head of state to
visit Britain - begins his tour with a ceremonial welcome at
Horse Guards Parade on Tuesday. He will also hold separate talks
with Tony Blair, William Hague and Charles Kennedy, as well as
visiting cultural and tourist attractions.
The revelations will fuel the controversy surrounding President
Jiang's visit. Police are already planning one of the biggest
security operations ever mounted for a visiting politician in an
attempt to keep pro-Tibet and pro-democracy protesters away from
the president, who is highly sensitive to political protests.
Officers are preparing for demonstrations at all points on the
president's itinerary, including: the Millennium Dome; the Royal
Observatory at Greenwich; the British Museum, where he will open
a China exhibition; the Globe theatre, where he will attend a
rehearsal of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar; and Cambridge
University, where he will visit the university library and music
school.
The blueprints for the dirty war say the Chinese army should
infiltrate and sabotage key pillars of Western society, including
banks and the public sector, in response to a direct threat of
war.The officers argue that Beijing's attempts to upgrade its
nuclear and conventional arsenal to catch up with America are
insufficient to prepare the world's most populous country for
conflict.
The increasingly global world economy is pinpointed as a weak
point which could be exploited. The PLA officers write admiringly
of George Soros, whose attack on the pound in 1992 is suggested
as a template for disrupting an unsuspecting rival's economic
system. One recent article proposed that Beijing should set aside
$100 billion to pitch its enemies into financial crisis.
The books analyse the tactics that Beijing could adopt to bridge
the gulf with America and its allies. The authors of a book
entitled Unrestricted War say such a war "surpasses all
boundaries and restrictions. It takes non-military forms and
military forms, and creates a war on many fronts. It is the war
of the future".
One passage criticises Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic for
failing to exploit fully the use of hostages as human shields to
deter missile attacks by the United States. The new thinking has
been echoed in the state-run media, which in recent months has
increasingly focused on the ways in which China can prepare for
war against a technologically superior enemy. The China Youth
Daily newspaper said: "Westerners enjoy a high level of
civilisation and will think the measures indecent. However, no
one will be merciful when war breaks out."
The tactics were employed for the first time as Beijing flexed
its muscles recently in response to Taiwanese attempts to
redefine their island's relationship with the mainland. According
to Taipei authorities, Chinese government computer hackers tried
to destroy websites maintained by the Taiwanese National Assembly
on the Internet. Although the hackers caused enough damage to
close the site for three days, they failed to destroy data held
on the central computer running the site.
But limitations were exposed when Taiwanese hackers struck back,
forcing Beijing to disconnect computers from the World Wide Web
until a new protective "wall" was ready. The PLA planners argue
that China should limit its weapons build-up. Beijing should not,
for example, attempt to match a joint programme recently launched
by America and Japan to develop missile-based defence systems.
The authors of Unrestricted War said China should not fall into
the trap of spending beyond its means as it attempted to develop
new weapons systems and military hardware.
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