ChiCom's Would Nuke America To Conquer Taiwan

"Dismissing this as Marxist bravado would be a tragic mistake. China is preparing for a war with us and will not hesitate to use any means to achieve its strategic objectives.

"Gen. Zhu, a professor at China’s National Defense University, calmly told a group of foreign journalists what would happen if America intervened to save Taiwan: ‘We will be determined to respond. We Chinese will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all cities east of Xian [in central China]. Of course, the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds … of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.’

"Gen. Zhu isn’t the first PLA diplomat to threaten nuclear war over Taiwan. In 1995, Gen. Xiong Guangkai, now deputy chief of the general staff, told a former Pentagon official he was sure the U.S. would think twice about supporting Taiwan in a military confrontation, because Americans ‘cared more about losing Los Angeles’ than saving Taipei. …

"This is a regime fully prepared to sacrifice millions of its own people to achieve its geopolitical objectives – which extend far beyond Taiwan. The same murderous fanaticism that fueled the Cultural Revolution and sent tanks rolling over demonstrators in Tiananmen Square is alive and well in the Chinese Politburo and inner circles of the People’s Liberation Army. …

"With Taiwan, it will control the sea lane through which much of the world’s shipping passes." Source: Don Feder, The Washington Times, 7/21/05, p. A16