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CHINESE MILITARY BOOK ADVOCATES TERRORISM,
COMPUTER WARFARE IN 'WAR OF THE FUTURE' AGAINST AMERICA

According to publishing sources, the Sunday WASHINGTON POST will feature an explosive front page article exploring a new book by two Chinese colonels who advocate "terrorism, narcotics trafficking, drug smuggling, environmental degradation and computer viruses" as methods to defeat America in the "war of the future"!

POST reporter John Pomfret was granted a rare interview in Beijing with Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, the authors of "Unrestricted War" -- both of whom express a deep fear of an America that imposes its ways around the world through various methods, including war.

"If today you impose your value systems on a European country, tomorrow you can do the same to Taiwan or Tibet," Wang Xiangsui, a member of the Chinese air force, told the POST.

"We are a weak country," Xiangsui said, "so do we need to fight according to your rules? No... War has rules but those rules are set by the West, but if you use those rules then weak countries have no chance. But if you use non-traditional means to fight, like those employed by financiers to bring down financial systems, then you have a chance."

In all, "Unrestricted War" describes 24 unconventional forms of warfare which the two militarymen advocate should be used in multiple combinations.

"We realized that if China's military was to face off against the United States, we would not be sufficient. So we realized that China needs a new strategy to right the balance of power," Xiangsui told Pomfret.

Liang and Xiangsui write in their book that "Unrestricted War is a war that surpasses all boundaries and restrictions... It takes non-military forms and military forms and creates a war on many fronts. It is the war of the future."

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China Gives "Strike First" Approval Against Taiwan

http://www.insidechina.com 8-7-99

HONG KONG (Agence France Presse) - China's military leaders have ordered the air force to strike first in any confrontation with Taiwanese fighter jets, a Hong Kong newspaper reported Friday. With tension between China and Taiwan showing no sign of abating, another newspaper said the Chinese navy was practicing naval blockades that would prevent any foreign intervention in a conflict. The powerful Central Military Commission ordered regional commands in Nanjing and Guangzhou in southeastern China "to step up low-flying training," the independent Chinese language Ming Pao daily said. The commission, which is chaired by President Jiang Zemin, had given the air force authority to "strike first in gaining the initiative" in any emergency situation that could lead to a clash with Taiwan, the report said citing unnamed sources. Meanwhile, Taiwanese authorities have ordered the island's armed forces to exercise self-restraint to avoid clashes with China during ongoing cross-strait tension, the United Evening Post reported Friday. Nationalist air force pilots were also asked not to confront communist jets even when provoked, the paper said. High-ranking air force officers told the paper that the increased sorties of communist fighters were meant to scare and there had been no obvious and determined provocation. Defense Minister Tang Fei, in a radio interview Thursday, said Washington had expressed its concern over heightened tensions given increased sorties by the two rivals in the past two weeks. But Tang said there would be no "accidents" given the training and discipline of nationalist pilots unless communists "invade our sovereignty, strike first or jeopardize civil aviation security." China's central leadership's policy is to "continue observation and maintain pressure" on Taiwan, according to the Hong Kong newspaper report. China has kept up a propaganda barrage against Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui after he declared last month that he wanted "special state-to-state" relations with Beijing. China claims Taiwan is a renegade province awaiting reunification. The two sides split at the end of the Chinese civil war won by the communists in 1949. The United States has warned the new tension could spin out of control and the Taiwan press reported that a Chinese air force provocation almost sparked a confrontation with Taiwanese fighter jets on Monday. There have been multiple reports of China embarking on military exercises as part of the war of nerves that has badly hit Taiwan's stock market. The Beijing-backed Wen Wei Po newspaper said a series of sea exercises had been held off southeast China since late July intended to "test the navy's ability to develop a sea blockade and defence" and deter foreign intervention in any Taiwan Strait conflict. During Taiwan's presidential election campaign in 1996, China carried out war games and fired missiles into the Taiwan Strait to show its anger at a high-profile trip to the United States by Lee. The exercises prompted the United States to send two aircraft carrier groups to the region. Wen Wei Po, citing the China News Service, said the exercises were held "to show the forces' courage and determination" to block any attempt by Taiwan to seek independence. It added that warships, submarines and aircraft took part in the drills. Forces in Fujian province, opposite Taiwan, are on a level-three alert, the lowest of China's three-tier military alert system, while missile units were deployed along the coast, the report said. Earlier, the pro-Beijing Ta Kung Pao newspaper said some key People's Liberation Army units were on the highest level military alert. According to Ming Pao, the Beijing leadership believes the Taiwan president's actions could ignite an armed confrontation. It added that the central leadership believed the first half of next year would be "crucial" as Taiwan elects a president to replace Lee. ((c) 1999 Agence France Presse)

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flb:

An interesting subject. The information that I have is much different than the opinions expressed in these articles. My information suggests that mainland China is not that unified. It is a collection of different cultural and ethnic groups waiting to explode at the first sign of stress. An empire; much like the Soviet Empire designed by Stalin [we know what happened there]. In terms of military strength, Taiwan is evidently stronger [at the present] than the mainland [or so military experts say]. As we have seen, a large number of troops is no match for superior technology. When we add U.S. support, there is no contest. Indeed, a mainland response at this time may lead to the permanent loss of Taiwan and contact with the rest of the world. Of course, assuming a rational response from leaders in the mainland may be wrong. It will be interesting to see.

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-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), August 08, 1999.

I really don't see why this is a big surprise to anyone. This is nothing new. Ever read Sun Tzu's _The Art of War_? Ever wondered why NO ONE has ever been successful in conquering China? China, if defeated in battle, eventually absorbs its conquerors, ending up twice as strong without so much as a shot being fired.

This ancient text makes it abundantly clear that conflict is to be waged in infinitely more-subtle ways than arrows or bullets. It is waged very slowly, with every social and economic resource available. Just because shots are not being fired does not mean that "war" is not being fought. In fact, conventional war is understood to be a last resort and waged out of necessity, not ideals or even malice. There is a saying that a SINGLE good spy is worth TEN THOUSAND of a nation's best warriors. How true indeed. If only America was this wise.

Despite all the barking going on right now, America still enjoys comparatively good relations with the Chinese. Not as good as, say, ten years ago...but China knows that it needs us in order to maintain its economic growth. They are gradually opening up, albeit painstakingly slow and keeping a tight lid on things. They are now starting to experience all the negative aspects of capitalism previously unheard of--unemployment, prostitution, AIDS, drug addiction, industrial-style urban poverty, sqautters, etc. They are under pressure. Thus, they are letting off steam, preferably in the direction of scapegoats like the West. They don't want to blow the lid off entirely. Nothing is worse for China than the internal chaos that comes with the fall of a dyansty. The communists are a dynasty just like any other who've ruled there. Just a different flavor, is all. Totalitarianism and bureaucratic statism is nothing new over there.

"Unrestricted War"--perhaps even better articulated by Sun Tzu--is something that comes naturally to the Easterner. The only reason it's spelled out like this--BLATANTLY TO GARNER WESTERN PUBLICITY--is to keep the West in line with mild, calculating threats. China, historically, has had a bad time with Westerners meddling with their affairs and this has made its leadership extremely paranoid and closed off. This is their way of saying "Back off and simmer down, we've had enough of you for now." It does NOT mean "We hate you from the bottom of our heart and want to blast your scum off the face of the earth."

In short, don't futz with the Chinese. If we do, we will lose. They are far older, far more numerous, and more powerful than we are (in a latent kind of way). They want to make it clear that we in the West must tread carefully around them because China is better off if the West is economically strong. (But China knows it is not better off if the West returns to its old, imperialist ways, because this sows internal strife that cannot be contained. This kills the dynasty, resulting in all the same old famines, violence, lawlessness, warlords, and terror that lasts 50 years or so and recurs every few hundred years.)

-- coprolith (coprolith@rocketship.com), August 08, 1999.

Z1X4Y7 said: My information suggests that mainland China is not that unified. It is a collection of different cultural and ethnic groups waiting to explode at the first sign of stress. An empire; much like the Soviet Empire designed by Stalin

Exactly "Z..." This should just concern us even more. We know what happens in this country (the USA) when B-1 Bill gets into trouble at home - he goes to war or fires off missiles at aspirin factories in sovereign nations that we have not even declared war against. What do you think the leaders in China will do after Y2K shuts down their teeming factories and their teeming millions are suddenly hungry? Answer: They will invent a reason to go to war (read: Taiwan) and then they will go to war. If they lose half a billion people in the process, so what? It's half a billion they don't have to worry about feeding.

Now I speak as a prophet. China will sail up to the coast of California and launch missiles. That I have been shown. I have heard the roar and have watched the mushroom cloud going up and up and up .... in this country.

sdb

-- S. David Bays (sdbays@intplus.com), August 08, 1999.