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On Jan 19, 9:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Coz we have fools in the govt, the downfall of the US has only been > accelerated !! > The are morons who staged 9/11 controlled demolition to kill americans > to start their idiotic war. > > Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:12:20 -0500 > Subject: [nsmworld] war with china? a different approach? > From: "J. Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Greater China > Apr 20, 2006 > > SPEAKING FREELY > If it comes to a shooting war ... > By Victor N Corpus > > Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest > writers to > have their say. Please click here if you are interested in > contributing. > > One could call this article a worst-case scenario for the new American > century. Why worst case? Because of the hard lessons from history. The > Romans did not consider the worst-case scenario when Hannibal crossed > the > Alps with his elephants and routed them; or when Hannibal encircled and > > annihilated the numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of > Cannae. > > The French did not consider the worst-case scenario at Dien Bien Phu > and > when they built the Maginot Line, and the French suffered disastrous > defeats. The Americans did not consider the > > worst-case scenario at Pearl Harbor or on September 11, and the results > were > disastrous for the American people. Again, American planners did not > consider the worst-case scenario in its latest war > in Iraq, but instead operated on the "best-case scenario", such as > considering the Iraq invasion a "cake walk" and that the Iraqi people > would > be parading in the streets, throwing flowers and welcoming American > soldiers > as "liberators", only to discover the opposite. > > Scenario One: America launches 'preventive war' vs China > Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival. This > is a > dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and > > requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating > a > region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient > to > generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia, > the > territory of the former Soviet Union and Southwest Asia. > -Paul Wolfowitz, former US deputy secretary of defense and currently > president of the World Bank > Consider these snapshots of China: > > Since 1978, China has averaged 9.4% annual GDP growth > > It had a five-fold increase in total output per capita from 1982 to > 2002 > > It had $61 billion in foreign direct investment in 2004 alone and > foreign > trade of $851 billion, the third-largest in the world > > The US trade deficit with China exceeded $200 billion in 2005 > > China has $750 billion in foreign exchange reserves and is the > second-biggest oil importer > > Last year it turned out 442,000 new engineers a year; with 48,000 > graduates > with master's degrees and 8,000 PhDs annually; compared to only 60,000 > new > engineers a year in the US. > > China for the first time (2004) surpassed America to export the most > technology wares around the world. China enjoyed a $34 billion trade > surplus > with the US in advanced technology products in 2004 (The Economist, > December > 17, 2005). In 2005, the surplus increased to $36 billion > > It created 20,000 new manufacturing facilities a year > > It holds $252 billion in US Treasury Bonds (plus $48 billion held by > Hong > Kong) > > Among the five basic food, energy and industrial commodities -grain > and > meat, oil and coal and steel -consumption in China has eclipsed that > of the > US in all but oil. > > China has also gone ahead of the US in the consumption of TV sets, > refrigerators and mobile phones > > In 1996, China had 7 million cell phones and the US had 44 million. Now > > China has more mobile phone users than the US has people. > > China has about $1 trillion in personal savings and a savings rate of > close > to 50%; U.S. has about $158 billion in personal savings and a savings > rate > of about 2% (The Wall Street Journal, Nov 19, 2005) > Shanghai boasts 4,000 skyscrapers - double the number in New York > City (The > Wall Street Journal, Nov 19, 2005) > Songbei, Harbin City in north China is building a city as big as New > York > City > > Goldman Sachs predicts that China will surpass the US economy by 2041. > > Before China's economy catches up with America, and before China builds > a > military machine that can challenge American superpower status and > world > dominance, America's top strategic planners (Project for the New > American > Century) decide to launch a "preventive war" against China. As a > pretext for > this, the US instigates Taiwan to declare independence. > > Taiwan declares independence! > China has anticipated and long prepared itself for this event. After > observing "Operation Summer Pulse -04" when US aircraft carrier > battle > groups converged in the waters off China's coast in mid-July through > August > of 2004, Chinese planners began preparing to face its own worst-case > scenario: the possibility of confronting a total of 15 carrier battle > groups > composed of 12 from America and three from its close British ally. > China's > strategists refer to its counter-strategy to defeat 15 or more aircraft > > carrier battle groups as the "assassin's mace" or shashaujian. > > After proper coordination with Russia and Iran and activating their > previously agreed strategic plan, troops and weapon systems are > pre-positioned. China then launches a missile barrage on Taiwan. > Command and > control nodes, military bases, logistics centers, vital war industries, > > government centers and air defense installations are simultaneously hit > with > short and medium range ballistic missiles armed with conventional, > anti-radar, thermo baric and electro-magnetic pulse warheads. > > At the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Command and Control > Center, > ranking defense officials watch huge electronic monitor screens showing > > seven US and two British aircraft carrier battle groups converging on > the > East China Sea with another three US carrier battle groups entering the > > Persian Gulf, while the remaining two US and one British battle groups > remain in the Indian Ocean to serve as a strategic reserve. > > As the aircraft carrier battle groups advance, China draws out one of > its > "trump cards" by leaking to the world media that it is dumping its > holdings > of US Treasury bonds and shifting to gold and euros. > > Meanwhile, strategic planners at NORAD watch with glee as they observe > on > the screen as monitored by their radar satellites that Chinese surface > ships > are making a hasty retreat as nine allied carrier battle groups advance > > toward the Philippine Sea and Chinese waters near Taiwan. > > The assassin's mace: China's anti-satellite weapons > Glee and ecstasy soon turn to shock as monitor screens suddenly go > blank. > Then all communication via satellites goes dead. China has drawn its > second > "trump card" (the assassin's mace) by activating its maneuverable > "parasite" > micro-satellites that have unknowingly clung to vital (NORAD) radar and > > communication satellites and have either jammed, blinded or physically > destroyed their hosts. > > This is complemented by space mines that maneuver near adversary > satellites > and explode. Secret Chinese and Russian ground-based anti-satellite > laser > weapons also blind or bring down US and British satellites used for > C4ISR > (command, control, communication, computers, intelligence, surveillance > and > reconnaissance). And to ensure redundancy and make sure that the > adversary > C4ISR system is completely "blinded" even temporarily, hundreds of > select > Chinese and Russian information warriors (hackers) specifically trained > to > attack their adversary's C4ISR systems simultaneously launch their > cyber > offensive. > > For a few precious minutes, the US and UK advancing carrier battle > groups > are stunned and blinded by the "mace", ie, a defensive weapon used to > temporarily blind a stronger opponent. But the word mace has another > meaning; one which is deadlier and used in combination with the first. > > A mace can be a spiked war club used in olden times to knock out an > opponent. Applied in modern times, the spikes of the assassin's mace > refer > to currently unstoppable supersonic cruise missiles capable of sinking > aircraft carriers that are in China's inventory; complemented by > equally > unstoppable "squall" or SHKVAL rocket torpedoes and regular 65 > cm-diameter > wake-homing torpedoes, bottom-rising rocket-propelled mines, and > "obsolete" > warplanes converted into unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) firing > > anti-ship missiles from standoff positions and finally dive-bombing > into the > heart of the US and UK aircraft carrier armada. > > Missile barrage on advancing carrier battle groups > A few seconds after the "blackout", literally hundreds of short and > medium-range ballistic missiles (DF7/9/11/15s, DF4s, DF21X/As, some of > which > are maneuverable) pre-positioned on the Chinese mainland, and stealthy, > > sea-skimming and highly-accurate cruise missiles (YJ12s, YJ22s, > KH31A/Ps, > YJ83s, C301s, C802s, SS-N-22s, SS-NX-26/27s, 3M54s & HN3s) delivered > from > platforms on land, sea and air race toward their respective designated > targets at supersonic speed. > > Aircraft carriers are allotted a barrage of more than two dozen cruise > missiles each, followed by a barrage of short and medium-range > ballistic > missiles timed to arrive in rapid succession. > > Supersonic cruise missiles constitute China's third deadly "trump card" > > against the US - part of the so-called assassin's mace. These > unstoppable > cruise missiles may be armed with 440-lb to 750-lb conventional > warheads (or > 200-kiloton tactical nuclear warheads 10 times stronger than Hiroshima) > > traveling at more than twice the speed of sound (or faster than a rifle > > bullet). > > The cruise missiles, together with the SRBMs and MRBMs (short and > medium-range ballistic missiles) may also be armed with radio frequency > > weapons that can simulate the electro-magnetic pulse of nuclear > explosions > to fry computer chips, or fuel-air explosives that can annihilate the > personnel in aircraft carriers and battleships without destroying the > platforms. > > Their effective range varies from less than 100 to 1,800 kilometers > from > stand-off positions. Delivered by... > > read more ยป -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
