Posted on 07/07/2010 6:29:05 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Living Target
JULY 07, 2010 11:19
Chinese Maj. Gen. Luo Yuan, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences, told a Hong Kong TV station Monday, “If a U.S. aircraft carrier enters the Yellow Sea, it will become a living target.” Unleashing hard-line comments, he said, “Just as we’d block a snoring person from approaching one’s bed, can we allow other people to perform a sword dance right in front of our door?,” adding, “China is not fish but a tiger lion.” The official Chinese daily Global Times also said that if the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington enters the Yellow Sea to participate in a South Korea-U.S. anti-submarine drill, China must take "decisive action."
Beijing defines Uighur and Tibet, two autonomous districts fighting for independence, as “core interest areas” and has made no concessions to them. Taiwan is a de facto independent nation but China also considers it a core interest area. Beijing’s policy is to shun diplomatic ties with countries that do not recognize Taiwan as Chinese territory. The Nahai Islands in the South China Sea have ignited an intense territorial dispute among China, Vietnam and the Philippines. While visiting Beijing in March, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg was reportedly informed by Chinese officials that Beijing considers the South China Sea as a core area of interest vis-a-vis Chinese sovereignty and territorial protection.
China has shown no restraint in its greed for territory. Jin Canrong, a professor at Renmin University in Beijing and a Korea expert, said, “The Yellow Sea is a region that China seeks to designate as a core interest area along with Taiwan, Tibet and Uighur, just like the South China Sea.” China seeks to block a U.S. advance by using the concept of an island chain to cover Sakhalin, the Japanese archipelago, Okinawa, Taiwan and the Philippines. Since Beijing considers the western water section of the chain as a core interest area, it seeks to block the U.S. Navy from entering.
China believes that it cannot afford to allow the South Korea-U.S. joint drill since it entails the U.S. Navy’s entry into its island chain. The “aircraft carrier killer” missile Beijing is developing cannot accurately strike American vessels, and China has yet to develop a long-range missile. The Chinese, however, can attack an aircraft carrier fleet by remodeling its Dongfeng intercontinental ballistic missile, a nuclear warhead which has massive destructive capability. Washington can counter with its maritime missile defense system. The two global superpowers are engaged in a fierce battle to take over hegemony behind the scenes of the sinking of the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan by a North Korean torpedo.
Editorial Writer Lee Jeong-hoon (hoon@donga.com)
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“China is not fish but a tiger lion”
Does he mean a “liger”? Anybody got a pic of Napoleon Dynamite’s drawing of a lion/tiger?
Ah,Grasshopper!
Pretty bold talk from a nation that would put it’s head on the chopping block by building the Three Gorges Dam.
Like the Caliphate, China knows it has been the sole superpower and center of the whole universe, in the past. China wishes to again be he sole superpower and center of the whole universe, eventually. For the immediate future, though, China will be satisfied with Taiwan, a heaping helping of WWII-revenge by way of debasement and humiliation of the Japanese nation, the west’s shocked and awed respect, and the whole eastern hemisphere’s grovelling, worshipful subservience.
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I bet the skipper of that carrier would say the same thing about China.
It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.
“The Chinese, however, can attack an aircraft carrier fleet by remodeling its Dongfeng intercontinental ballistic missile, a nuclear warhead which has massive destructive capability.”
It could be worse, they could call in US debt instead.
I imagine the CINC is putting together an apology, even as we speak...
If the Yellow Sea is considered to be Chinese territory by the Chicoms, than the Gulf of Mexico should be American waters. All of it.
Does that mean that the U.S. should be allowed to attack Chinese and Russian oil rigs in the Gulf? What about Chinese and Russian naval vessels?
The Chinese are paranoid and stupid. If America wanted to attack China, we sure as hell wouldn’t be buying all the crap they sell us which is enabling the Chicom military buildup.
The general’s macho comments are pablum for the masses. Nothing more.
If there was ever an opportunity for China to secure and expand what is euphemistically called a “sphere of influence” in which only the Chinese military is allowed to operate, now is the time.
If China were to invade Taiwan or sink a U.S. warship in international waters, it is difficult to conceive of the Obama administration even criticizing this, much less doing anything about it.
Thus perceived weakness actually increases the risk of war. These are dangerous times we live in and the Obama administration has made it that much more so.
LOL! I think that would be called "cutting off your nose to spite your face".
LOL! I think that would be called "cutting off your nose to spite your face".
Fits the pattern: Dems let the nation’s guard down and invite enemies to make a first strike.
If I was China I would do the same thing and piss on Obamas red nose because that what Obama wants and the chinks no it.
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