CHINA PERSPECTIVES
The commander of U.S. strategic forces said last week that the military is prepared to wage offensive warfare in both space and in cyberspace to defend satellites from attack and computer systems from cyber warfare. “To ensure our freedom of action in space we need to maintain an acute awareness of the objects in space, and the terrestrial threats that could interrupt or deny our space operations. Our adversaries understand our dependence upon space-based capabilities, and we must be ready to detect, track, characterize, attribute, predict, and respond to any threat to our space infrastructure,” he said. That’s long winded but means the next war will be fought in space and on earth. China’s shoot down of one of its deep space satellites a year ago has focused the issue.
In a virtually unreported but extraordinary turn China has proposed dividing up the Pacific into Chinese and U.S. spheres of influence, an indication that Beijing has expansionist objectives.
China has purchased advanced anti-ship cruise missiles (SS-27) from Russia, posing a major threat to U.S. aircraft carriers and other warships, the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said last week. It can be fired from submarines and surface ships. It is a very sophisticated piece of hardware and we are currently not as capable of defending against that missile as I would like,” Pacific Commander Admiral Tim Keating said.
China is the ‘largest provider of small arms to Sudan’ and is responsible for worsening the violence in the tragic Darfur region, a U.S.-based rights group charges. In a virtually unreported but extraordinary turn China has proposed dividing up the Pacific into Chinese and U.S. spheres of influence, an indication that Beijing has expansionist objectives.
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Comment by BLURBER on 26 March 2008:
What arrogance for CHINA to suggest dividing half the globe into what its and what is the U. S. From such arrogance comes a truth of intention, and it is only a matter of time before China pushes for it.