As predicted, the PRC is not interest simply in deterring Taiwan. They dont need ICBMs to bring Taiwan to heel.
So all you anti-NMD people tell me please...who do
you think China is going to point those ICBMs at. No, their military build up is not about Taiwan alone.
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Originally Posted by CNN
Over the longer term, however, an increasingly modernizing Chinese military could pose a threat to U.S. and other forces in the Asia-Pacific region, it said.
"Some of China's military planners are surveying the strategic landscape beyond Taiwan," the report said.
Among a number of such developments, it noted improvements in Chinese intercontinental-range missiles "capable of striking targets across the globe, including the United States."
Air and naval force improvements also appear to be geared for operations beyond the geography around Taiwan, an island less than 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the Chinese coast, it added.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/19/chi....ap/index.html
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