China Deploys Carrier Killer Missile Near Taiwan

Asian Security: As Korea festers, our friends in Beijing have deployed near Taiwan a powerful missile designed to take out U.S. aircraft carriers as Beijing strengthens its ability to prevent U.S. forces from aiding Taiwan.

When North Korea announced the 1953 Armistice was considered null and void and threatened renewed missile tests, the U.S. rushed naval assets to the region, including two destroyers equipped with the Aegis anti-missile defense system. We presumably would do so if things heated up between Beijing and its claimed "lost province," Taiwan.

That option became increasingly problematical when news of China's deployment of an anti-ship ballistic missile near Taiwan came in written testimony by the Pentagon's head of intelligence, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, delivered to a Senate committee on Thursday.

The missile, designated the DF-21D, is one of a "growing number of conventionally armed" new weapons China is deploying to the region, adding to more than 1,200 short-range missiles opposite the island democracy, Flynn, the Defense Intelligence Agency director, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The Dong Feng-21D is intended to give China "the capability to attack large ships, particularly aircraft carriers, in the western Pacific," the Pentagon's 2012 China report said. The report cites estimates that the missile's range exceeds 930 miles (1,500 kilometers).

The land-based missile is designed to target and track aircraft carrier groups with the help of satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles and over-the-horizon radar. Launched into space, the DF21D re-enters the atmosphere, maneuvering at 10 times the speed of sound towards its target.

Sink an aircraft carrier. It becomes a hot war. Obama has no say. Field commanders annihilate China. Are they that stupid?

In 1961-2 Communist Party member was part of a coalition Indian government and received the defense ministry as his portfolio.

The Chinese, desiring to hold the Himalaya passes, sent the People's Liberation Army through the passes to take ground on the other side and hold it. Menon's part was to stall and immobilize the Indian Army, traitorously, until the PLA had achieved its maximum goals. Menon was sidetracked and kicked out of government, but not before he had used his constitutional powers pro bono the Chinese government -- just like Bill Clinton did.

I disagree, though we are certainly headed for the wrong end of things.

We must bring back jobs to America.

Not outsource things around the world. Build them here.

How is that going to happen? If jobs aren't going to China, they are going to Vietnam or Brazil, or now Africa or any other number of places that aren't the US.

Are you willing to only buy American-made goods? Are you willing to picket Wal-Mart and other places that encourage the movement of jobs to China and outside of the US in general? Go picket Wal-Mart right now, and people will look at you as being a nut - too many people want their cheap crap from China to care what you or I think

And it's only going to get worse. A major part of China's military buildup is to prop up/show off their defense industry, which is doggedly trying to move in on American defense contractors. Once they start to take contracts from American defense and/or aerospace companies, our economy will really start to head down the drain.

The way some of our defense and aerospace companies are run, it wouldn't take much in the way of lost contracts to Chinese manufacturers to see them in dire straits.

You may disagree with me as to whether China was won the economic war, but make no mistake, it is a war, and it is a far deadlier war than any shooting war we could get into in the Pacific, because we won't recover - once many of those jobs are gone, they ain't coming back. That means more people on government assistance, which means higher taxes or more deficit spending (which means China buying more US debt), and it ultimately means that the middle class will shrink way down, which will hurt the retail and services industry (that rely on that middle class), which ....well, it's just this never-ending spiral downwards.

Don’t worry.

I’m convinced. I sure do not see many on our side, on our side however.

Nobody is paying attention. While China grows, and grows.

We shrink.

And EVERYONE runs right along, saying this is how things should be.

Democrat. And Republican.

Both sides, sold out.

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