China has already planned to nuke the United States in the event we seek to help preserve the freedom of Taiwan in the face of a Red Chinese war of aggression against that island nation.

China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the US if it is attacked by Washington during a confrontation over Taiwan, a Chinese general said on Thursday.

“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,” said General Zhu Chenghu.

Gen Zhu was speaking at a function for foreign journalists organised, in part, by the Chinese government. He added that China's definition of its territory included warships and aircraft.

“If the Americans are determined to interfere [then] we will be determined to respond,” said Gen Zhu, who is also a professor at China's National Defence University.

“We . . . 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.”

While some analysts have downplayed the statement, I cannot believe that such a rigidly controlled organization would include someone making these comments as a "loose cannon." We need to stop the Unocal deal, be prepared to take aggressive action to prevent this scenario from being carried out.

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