China Rapidly Modernizes for War With U.S.

Newsmax ^ | August 2004 | Alexandr Nemets

[neutronsgalore]

"To put nukes into Taiwan would be the last straw that would break Chicom restraint and war would result."

Maybe, but I think it would depend on how many nukes appeared there and how suddenly.

"Massive tariffs on Chicom goods would hasten, not deter, Chinese attacks upon us. That's just what triggered the Japanese attacks in the whole Pacific rim in 1941. We cut off their supplies of oil and steel and bam! here came Pearl Harbor and four years of war."

That is another possibility, but it would come out of a "use it or lose it" attitude on their part. If we turn to large scale protectionist policies their advances on us militarily would slow down and eventually stop. Then the gap would begin to widen. At that point they'd either start the war or give up on ever beating us. But that's assuming their free trade puppets don't reverse the trend back towards free trade. Personally, I think war is inevitable. Better that it start much sooner while we are stronger, than later after free trade policies have hollowed us out too far to be victorious.

[investigateworld]

Hey Where's all the charts and graphs guys?

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[neutronsgalore]

"Hey Where's all the charts and graphs guys?"

I don't know. Maybe we invoked too many nightmares of an American carrier crew opening up an unexploded Chinese cruise missile after a direct hit, and finding it full of Intel chips and Microsoft source code.

[fallujah-nuker]

I recall back in the 70's the AGM-53 Condor anti-ship missile that was canceled, it had 60nm range, 630lb warhead and Mach 2.9 speed:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/agm-53.htm

About 3 times as fast as Harpoon, same range and bigger warhead.

[neutronsgalore]

"About 3 times as fast as Harpoon, same range and bigger warhead."

Sounds like a good reason to bring it back. I like the W73 N-warhead option. I wonder how feasible a gamma radiation warhead is?