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China modernising its nuclear arsenal to survive first strike
Asia Pacific News.Net
Friday 9th May, 2008 (ANI)
London, May 9 : China is modernising, expanding and overhauling its nuclear weapons arsenal in order to compete with other major powers of the world and survive a first strike.
A leading arms control expert has said that the Chinese have realised that their nuclear weaponry has fallen behind those of other major powers and might not survive a first strike.
China was developing more flexible delivery systems, including from submarines, as well as the capacity to use multiple warheads, said Bates Gill, head of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri).
"Among the major nuclear powers China stands out in its effort to modernise, expand and improve its nuclear weapons capability," The Telegraph quoted Bates Gill, as saying at a conference in Beijing.
China's nuclear arsenal is estimated at between 100 and 200 warheads and is the smallest among the big powers - the US, Russia, Britain and France. The US is currently updating its missiles and warheads.
China now has a stated policy of never using nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear country and never as a "first strike". But Gill said that its static nuclear delivery system had left it vulnerable to a first strike.
A sea-based capability would "make it less likely that an adversary could wipe out the possibility of a response," he added.
The paper disclosed that China is constructing a secret nuclear submarine base to bolster its capabilities in the Pacific.
Gill said the advances China was making raised questions about whether it could be an active participant in future arms control or reduction talks.
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fish
05-09-08, 05:10 PM |
China modernising its nuclear arsenal to survive first strike
The Middle Kingdom is making a comeback - no longer the 'sick patient of Asia' named by Japan back then, when the 'sicko' was actually Japan, the brutal psychopathic killer itself. Japan had inadvertently coined this term for itself. Now it can be the one living up to it. Can the rest of Asia respect Japan? Sure they’ll forgive, but respect and have no fear? They’ll be happy and will want China to keep Japan under its thumb, no question about that.
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fish
05-10-08, 01:05 AM |
China is ready and the rest of Asia is happy
When Japan has shown zero remorse for the carnage it did to its Asian neighbors and has not made official apologies but instead has been twisting historical facts and sweeping them under the rugs, it will have much to fear now that China is on the rise. Show no mercy, receive no mercy. It will be naive and wishful thinking on the part of Japan to expect trust and open arms from its past victims. It knows because it in turn has wanted America (the hero that saved Asians from the merciless Japanese killing and raping spree) to show remorse and has been playing that guilt trip on America all these years. This is especially true on every anniversary of its 'doomsdays', the days when true relief from bloodshed was being given to the Asians. How many cranes have Japan folded to make America feel guilty? And how many lives do Japan owed in Asia that it does not feel guilty? Not a word. Zero remorse, only denials and twisting of facts. It wants sympathy from others on a punishment it deserved but gives no sympathy to its victims who did not deserve to be tortured nor killed. It is Japan’s hypocritical double standards that make it untrustworthy and a dangerous neighbor. Naturally, it will get the fruits of the seeds it sowed. Honesty and redeeming value and remedial actions are its choices in the last 70 years for all the harm and destructions it did, but it has not taken such HONORABLE path - the same path it has made America took for almost the same period. Bet the rest of Asia including the comfort women are now very glad that China has learned from the past and is now prepared and is much better armed. They do not get justice from Japan but at least they are getting some consolation knowing that there will be justice if it happens again. Show no mercy, expect no mercy in return.
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waltky
05-09-08, 09:43 PM |
Granny says dey’s gettin' ready to blow us to smithereens.
:eek:
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