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Chinese Gen.: ""If a US carrier enters the Yellow Sea it will become a living target"
Plenty of idiotic blustering from this Chinese Major General:
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."
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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.
http://english.donga.com/srv/service...=2010070748478
Plenty of idiotic blustering from this Chinese Major General:
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."
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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.
http://english.donga.com/srv/service...=2010070748478
