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WorldNetDaily: China: We'd nuke U.S. if provoked over Taiwan

WorldNetDaily: China: We'd nuke U.S. if provoked over Taiwan: "NUCLEAR WAR-FEAR
China: We'd nuke U.S.
if provoked over Taiwan
Major general says Beijing prepared to use WMDs against American cities
Posted: July 14, 2005
6:05 p.m. Eastern


� 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

A Chinese military official says Beijing will use nuclear weapons against the U.S. if the Americans attack the Asian nation in a fight over Taiwan.

'If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons,' Zhu Chenghu, a major general in the People's Liberation Army, said at an official briefing, according to the Financial Times.

Speaking at a function organized for foreign journalists, the official noted the definition of China's territory includes warships and aircraft.

'If the Americans are determined to interfere [then] we will be determined to respond,' Zhu said. 'We Chinese will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course, the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds ... of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.'

The Financial Times notes Zhu is a self-acknowledged 'hawk' who has warned previously that China could strike the U.S. with long-range missiles. But his threat to use nuclear weapons in a conflict over Taiwan is the most specific by a senior Chinese official in nearly a decade."

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