[The
Guardian Unlimited, U.K.]
Global Geographic
Times, People's Republic of China
On Nukes, Obama
'Feigns Retreat in Order to Attack'
Is
President Obama's recent proposal to pursue a nuclear weapon-free world
actually a way for the United States to retain its unquestioned global dominance?
According to this commentary by Wen Qiang, writing for China's strictly
state-controlled Global Geographic Times:
"What
country in the world could possibly rival the United States in conventional
weaponry - except through the use of nuclear weapons? … this so-called
nuclear-free world being proposed by America is purely for the elimination of
nuclear weapons in other countries, so that the U.S. can be the only game in
town and continue its global hegemony. ... Sooner or later, this American trick will be seen for what it is."
By Wen Qiang [文强]
Translated By Mark Klingman
April 20, 2009
People's Republic of China - Global
Geographic Times - Original Article (Chinese)
Since the successful
development of nuclear weapons by the United States, the world has been
shrouded in nuclear terror. This was particularly true just after World War II,
when the world was dumbfounded by the destructive power of the atomic bombs
that the U.S. dropped on Japan. It is said that all nuclear weapons in current
inventories are much more powerful than those two combined. Therefore, the
nuclear weapons states have banded together to create groups to use their
influence to inhibit the continuing spread of nuclear weapons. However, because
of their own security, the very "deterrence" sought by the nuclear
powers has created rising alarm among non-nuclear states - with more and more
countries seeking these types of unconventional weapons. This is why Iran and
North Korea are bent at all costs on developing nuclear weapons.
Recently,
President Barack Obama raised the idea of a nuclear-free world. At first
hearing, it sounds as if this would be in line with developing trends toward
world peace and lesson the concerns of non-nuclear states about the deterrence
of the nuclear powers. However, looked at from another point of view, what
country in the world could possibly rival the United States in conventional
weaponry - except through the use of nuclear weapons?
In today's world, the nuclear
states are the United Kingdom, the U.S., Russia and France, China, India and
Pakistan. Then there are a number of suspected nuclear states - Iran, North
Korea, and the country of Israel. And then there's Japan, which could at any
time develop nuclear weapons - an undertaking that would take about six months.
Frankly speaking, our country's combined national conventional forces are quite
a limited deterrent compared to those of the United States. Even compared to
European and other developed countries, we are at a disadvantage - after all,
our development began much later and under far different conditions. Therefore,
our Second
Artillery Corps [China's strategic missile force] is our de facto last line
of defense for deterring foreign forces.
If we follow Obama's proposal
to its logical conclusion, and all nuclear countries emptied out their nuclear
arsenals, then the planet would inevitably shift toward a one-sided military
balance favoring the United States, which couldn't in the short term be
challenged by China or any other country.
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A simple example is that while
most developed countries make unremitting efforts to develop third- or
fourth-generation fighter aircraft, the United States has already completed the
production of fifth-generation F-22s and has begun to develop a
sixth-generation fighter. And up to now, it's the only country with
fifth-generation fighters.
[Editor's Note: Lockheed
Martin coined the term fifth-generation fighter - meaning an aircraft that
employs stealth, super cruise and integrated avionics. Talk of sixth-generation
fighter, to be available some time in 2025, remains rather vague in terms of
what the aircraft would do, aside from having a longer range than the F22 and
much reduced radar signature].
President
Obama speaks in Prague's Hradcany
Square, Czech
Republic.
The president called for aggressive efforts to eliminate
nuclear weapons, April 4. CLICK HERE OR CLICK PHOTO TO WATCH 
SEE ALSO ON THIS:
Le Figaro, France:
Obama 'Disarmament Lesson' Annoys French Officials
Le Figaro, France:
President Obama: 'What a Change for the Alliance!'
Financial Times Deutschland, Germany:
'Prague Spring … Pyongyang Frost'
Die Welt, Germany:
Obama's 'Erroneous' Comments on Nukes
Gazeta, Russia:
Obama and Medvedev: Good Mood Music that Skirted the Central Issues
Der Spiegel, Germany:
'Yankee Bombs Go Home':
Foreign Minister Wants U.S. Nukes Off German Soil
The United States has twelve
aircraft carrier battle groups, a powerful army, the greatest long-range strike
force capability in the world and is perhaps the only country capable of
carrying on two wars at the same time. Why wasn't Taiwan taken back after the
founding of the People's Republic of China? It was because just as the PRC was
going to take back Taiwan, war on the Korean Peninsula broke out. Troops that
were deployed along the southeast coast [facing Taiwan] were redeployed to the
northeast even while wearing unlined clothing better suited to warm weather,
even as the U.S. blockaded the Taiwan Strait.
It can now be said that
China's Second Artillery Corps. is the one of the world's most mysterious
forces. Its actual strength is something that countries such as the U.S. and
Japan dearly want to know about. But so far, apart from deliberately
exaggerating the threat from China so as to justify boosting their own military
expenditures, they can't do a thing to counter the Second Artillery Corps. If
at some point the situation changes, the Second Artillery Corps. can always
come up with a heavyweight deterrent - but exactly how much inventory we have
remains a mystery, and causes them untold headaches. For its own security
considerations, the U.S. dare not be too curt with China, but step by step must
tentatively feel its way. The way to think of this is that as long as that
Second Artillery Corps. exists, even the United States will have to think twice
before doing what it likes.
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Therefore, this so-called
nuclear-free world being proposed by America is purely for the elimination of
nuclear weapons in other countries, so that the U.S. can be the only game in
town and continue its global hegemony. We have to recognize this fact and not
be deceived by this "feigning retreat in order to attack." We are
committed to nuclear non-proliferation and will never be the first to use
nuclear weapons. We will only use them as a deterrent to safeguard our own
national security. "You don't mess
with me, I don't mess with you." Sooner or later, this American trick will
be seen for what it is.
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