In the Sept. 8th Press Club briefing Senator Bennett referred to a recent Chinese government statement, a document, in which the Chinese state that they are contemplating taking down the US by knocking out our electronics. I have not seen this document anyplace. Have you? Does anybody have a site where this can be read?

-- Shivani Arjuna (SArjuna@aol.com), September 10, 1999

Answers

Great question! I watched the program.

I'm sure one of our news hounds will find it, if it's out there, now that you mentioned it. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 10, 1999.

It's called "Operation Chopsticks" Wok, wok, wok wok (;-)

Gonna need lead tinfoil hats for this one!

-- dw (y2k@outhere.com), September 10, 1999.

Funny dw.

He did say it's a public document. <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), September 10, 1999.

A newspaper article about Senator Bennett's comments is at this link:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115007970,00.html?

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), September 10, 1999.

Do you suppose it's one of those public documents like the Navy's June utility report was? :-)

-- RUOK (RUOK@yesiam.com), September 11, 1999.

PS: This is a July CNN article and the graphics (cool, but spooky!) show mongo Electro-magnetic pulse ZAPPING all of TAIWAN! That would about end the flood cheap computers to us Yankee Dogs! And, I assume, TAIWAN would drop from the high-tech world (as we know it).

Think that might wake-up a few pollies? What a "trigger-event" that would be. God, I'm sick.

-- dw (y2k@outhere.com), September 11, 1999.

Here's another article about Senator Bennett's comments:

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990908S0017

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), September 11, 1999.

Snippet from Bennet's remarks:

"The Chinese have now said publicly in a paper that was published just a week ago that they are considering shutting down the United States' computers rather than attacking the United States" through military means, Bennett said.

Now is that any way for our nice trading partners to talk? Shame, shame.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), September 11, 1999.

There were news stories a few weeks ago about a Chinese Army document or book indicating that they would use unconventional warfare against the West. I haven't had a chance to look for the reports, but the document may have mentioned the disabling of computers by hackers, sabotage, etc.

-- Dave (dannco@hotmail.com), September 11, 1999.

Linda,

Trading partners indeed, is something to consider. They picked a bad time to come forward with such a statement. We are planning on letting them join the WTO very soon:

"Experts believe the United States and China could reach an agreement by the end of September, as long as Beijing sticks to the market-opening commitments it made in April. But it could take several weeks to finalize the documents and months to convince U.S. lawmakers to go along."

"But as part of the pact, Clinton must convince lawmakers to grant Beijing permanent most-favored nation status, what the United States now refers to as Normal Trade Relations or NTR."

They don't sound like a favored nation with these kinds of threats!

IMHO it might be wise to hold off on this till next year (sorry big business, but this has political ramifications). It was supposed to be wrapped up in April, so what's a few more months? If we discover early next year that they have toasted our computers, we can make them pay the price economically. But if they enter the WTO now, my guess is that it would be more difficult to do that. I'm really not sure though, does anyone know what the deal is on this agreement?

link

-- @ (@@@.@), September 11, 1999.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr near Monterey, California

...the document may have mentioned the disabling of computers by hackers, sabotage, etc.

Does etc. equal EMP?

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), September 12, 1999.