CLINTON GAVE THE DETAILS SO CHINA COULD DEVELOP THIS DEADLY MISSILE

Submitted by: Donald Hank with foreword:

I had promised to translate a paper I read in Chinese military journal Junshi.

Here is a tidbit that we should know:

An older article shown below in English says

...with its maximum range of 8,000km, the DongFeng 31 was regarded inadequate to provide an effective nuclear deterrent. For example, when launched from central China, the missile could only reach a smaller corner of the west coast of the United States. This limitation, coupled with various design flaws and technical issues, led to the decision to develop an improved variant DongFeng 31A, which caused further delay in the operational deployment of the missile. A flight test of the DongFeng 31A was carried out on 4 September 2006, and the test was said to be fully successful.

However, the Junshi article says:

The Dongfeng 30 with a 5000 mile range, can effectively strike anywhere on the US west coast and several northern mountain states.

This is a cause of concern for 2 reasons:

1--if it is true, then the report shown below, indicating limited range for this Chinese ICBM, is no longer accurate.

2--if China is a friend or ally, as our government leads us to believe, why does it so boldly proclaim its ability to reach the US with a nuclear strike? Clearly, this myth that China is a friend and ally of sorts is total bull! Why are we even trading with this dangerous country? After all, it is our trade that enriches it, enabling it to develop these weapons!

Again, I must wonder why the Junshi article was never translated (unless I am simply failing to turn up the translation) and reported in the US media.

But not to worry. The Chinese have now developed the Dongfeng 41, a 12,000 km range ICBM which can deliver a nuke to almost any destination in the world. Obviously, the US desperately needs a star wars type system that can knock these babies out of the sky! Just don't expect our peacenik in chief to even talk about that possibility!

http://tagseeworld.blogspot.com/2010/12/china-power-dong-feng-missiles-series.html

Don Hank

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