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2007-10-21 China-Japan-Koreas

Taiwan said to develop graphite bomb to counter China

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Posted by mrp 2007-10-21 11:43|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Why don't we just sell them some of ours? Or are we stockpiling them for Iran?

Posted by SteveS 2007-10-21 14:05|| 2007-10-21 14:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Excellent strategy. Paralyze your enemy without killing enough people to create outrage or lethal opposition. Pop off a couple of these suckers over the right Chinese cities and you could almost start a civil war. The world's lack of support for Taiwan is totally damning evidence of its complacency with respect to communism.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-21 14:09|| 2007-10-21 14:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The best way to win a war is to convince your militarily superior enemy not to start one. It shouldn't be terribly hard for Taiwan to infiltrate the top echelons of the Chinese communist party, their military commands, their internal security apparatus, etc.

The purpose of the infiltrators is not direct action, but to identify and derail militarists who try to push their country into war. To provide rationales for not going to war. To cast doubts and provide alternatives.

Since war is diplomacy by other means, wars usually come about when diplomacy has seized up. By keeping the diplomatic machine humming, wars can usually be averted.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-21 14:34|| 2007-10-21 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Both Russia's + China's anti-US "LOCAL/WAR ZONE" strategeeery emphasize IMMEDIATE NUCLEAR ESCALATION, including by extens REGIONAL-GLOBAL MILPOL ESCALATION INVOL MUTILPLE TERTIARY NATIONS. Anti-US/Western Commies = Islamists-JIhadists [Radical Mullahs] > ALL ELSE FAILS, GLOBAL ANARCHY-CHAOS + MUTUAL DESTRUCTION IS TO THEIR -ISM'S'AGENDA'S ADVANTAGE. TAIWAN must consider this as part of their contingency planning.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-21 20:06|| 2007-10-21 20:06|| Front Page Top

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