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From ABC NEws:


China passes Taiwan anti-secession law

China's parliament has unanimously passed a law giving the Chinese
military the legal basis to attack Taiwan if it moves towards
independence.

The National People's Congress passed the legislation by an
overwhelming majority of 2,896 votes for and none against. Two
delegates abstained.

The text of the draft, according to the Xinhua news agency, calls for
the use of "non-peaceful means and other necessary measures to
protect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity", if all else
fails.

This will be necessary "in the event that the 'Taiwan independence'
secessionist forces should act under any name or by any means to
cause the fact of Taiwan's secession from China", the draft law said.

It does not specify what is meant by "non-peaceful means" but
analysts believe it would cover anything from blockade to surgical
missile strikes and all-out invasion.

The law takes effect immediately.

On his appointment as China's top military chief, President Hu Jintao
told the army to prepare for war to safeguard the country's
territorial integrity, in an apparent reference to Taiwan.


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You won't see or hear much from the Bush neoconvicts on this; if
you've got the ability to fight back, the good ol' USA will give you
a pass.


That'd be a little too much on our plate right now. Let the Middle
East situation continue to come into shape. Once there are stable
pro-US governments in the oil-producing countries, the World will have
a have a more potent economic weapon to use against the Chinese.


Apples and oranges. I stated Bush wouldn't have the balls to play
military footsie with the PRC. We only take on ****ant military powers
militarily.



NPR news reported last week that China is years away from being able to
coordinate its various forces in the way we can now, and that this keeps
them from being as big a threat some would like to believe.


China *has* WMDs, including nukes, and the ability to deliver them where
they want.


Go to www.npr.org and browse last week's story archives for either the
morning or afternoon shows. Not sure when I heard it. They have the toys,
but the DoD veteran they interviewed said that they'd have a hard time
defending against certain common types of military action, due to their
lack of modern coordination methods.

I think you are missing my point. What I stated was this: China can
*deliver* large-scale WMDs onto our shores. The fact that it has a large
standing army is not relevant. If we play footsie with the PRC, we will
have nukes and suchlike raining down on us.

Then you've just answered your own question as to why we pick on 3rd rate
military powers and ignore nuclear armed countries like China and North
Korea. Once the WMD cat is let out of the proverbial bag in these 3rd
rate countries, all of the arm-twisting in the world no longer works. It's
not too late to prevent that from happening in the Middle East.