General Zhu Chenghu (below, right), Dean of the Defense College at the Chinese National Defense University (Guofang Daxue), told a group of Hong Kong journalists including the Financial Times’s Alexandra Harney that China might use nuclear weapons first in a conflict over Taiwan: If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the …
Administrivia
by | 2005-07-15 | No Comments
Greetings from Arms Control Wonk, Beijing Office. A Chinese General shoots off his mouth and the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board releases the Report of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure Task Force. There is too much to do, and I have to hop on an airplane. These are big events that require more time than …
Tang Jiaxuan Wraps Up Visit to Pyongyang
by | 2005-07-15 | No Comments
Chinese State Councillor Tang Jiaxuan (right, with the Il-iminator) is wrapping up a two day visit to Pyongyang. Kim Jong-Il reportedly told Tang that “the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula was the behest of President Kim Il Sung.” Kim also affirmed “a negotiated peaceful solution of the nuclear issue” and expressed hope for “positive progress” …
Zhang Liying: China's Missile Gal
by | 2005-07-13 | 7 Comments
Can’t anybody in the US intelligence community speak Chinese? Gregory Kulacki—the man who caught DIA repeating a hoax about a parasite microsatellite that was posted on a Chinese bulletin board—has caught another US intelligence entity just making shit up. Well, actually, leaving shit out. Challenges to Space Superiority, published by the National Air and Space …
