- Those watching the mainstream media in the past weeks,
months or even years may conclude that either China does not exist and
has never existed, or it is so small (say, its population is 25 million)
and technologically backward (it doesn,t have even nuclear weapons) that
it is simply not worth mentioning, because the world is being endangered
by the super-superpower named Iraq, which the U.S. mainstream media have
been mentioning millions of times a day if we add up all periodicals and
electronic networks.
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- An extraterrestrial visitor would imagine that on the
Earth of today there is only one big country, named Iraq, occupying most
of the world,s land, dominating the oceans, and being superior in the air
and in space. Scattered over the globe there are small weaklings, mentioned
by the U.S. mainstream media occasionally, such as Western Europe or Russia.
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- As for the United States, it would seem to the extraterrestrial
to be the last country challenging (with Tony Blair) the super-superpower
Iraq " to be the last heroic desperado, ready, in a kind of last-ditch
despair, to attack that mightiest Leviathan before the latter has crushed,
as it might a bed bug, the defiant United States.
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- Yet, as NewsMax readers might have noticed, I have been
contending that China exists! Nay, as the biggest dictatorship or absolutist
rulership in world history, it is, predictably, after world domination
and fears the Western democracies subverting dictatorship and absolutism
by their very existence (recall the Western-democracy-inspired Tiananmen
Square students in 1989).
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- From 1945 to 1949 the United States had a monopoly on
nuclear weapons and could establish world domination. Then these weapons
became weapons of mutual assured destruction. Neither the United States,
nor Soviet Russia, could use them against each other, because even after
the nuclear blow, the other side would have its means of retaliation intact
(such as bombers in the air carrying nuclear bombs or submarines carrying
nuclear missiles), and these intact means of retaliation would destroy
the attacker.
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- Thus the geostrategy became the search for new unconventional
superweapons able to destroy the enemy means of retaliation. The Soviet
rulers understood this no later than in the 1970s, and the Chinese rulers
no later than the 1980s.
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- As for the United States, it has been (watch the mainstream
media!) mortally endangered by Iraq, and so there is neither time nor mental
space to think of today,s post-nuclear geostrategy.
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- Not that China ignores conventional weapons. Once upon
a time I devoted my regular New York City Tribune column to the defense
of Taiwan, a country of émigrés from post-1949 China. Since
then they have been inviting me for their celebration of the Chinese New
Year.
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- Well, China is thought to have existed for 5,000 years,
and so the celebration of a New Year has been well elaborated. At one of
the celebrations, they gave me an article by professor Holms S. Liao in
the Taiwan News of March 2000. The article is titled "China's Military
Technology Modernization" and said in part:
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- The volume of Russian arms sales to China involves Russia,s
most advanced aircraft (Su-27, Su30MKK, MiG-31, Tu22M), air-defense systems
(S300PMU), missiles (3M80, R77, Kh-31), submarines (Project 636-series
Kilo-ll), and destroyers (Project 956A/E Sovramennij). In addition to sales
and licensing agreements, thousands of Russian scientists and engineers
work under Chinese contracts. Russia,s sales to China account for roughly
40% of all Russia,s arms exports. In the case of Kilo-class submarines,
Russians operate the yards only for the Chinese.
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- Russia, Israel, Italy, Britain Arm Beijing
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- Russia is not alone:
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- Israel is Beijing,s second-largest defense technology
provider. In addition, Italy is helping with avionics and ship-borne systems,
and the United Kingdom is assisting with airborne surveillance platforms.
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- But all this is conventional stuff, old hat. What China
is really after is the superweapon, able to destroy the enemy means of
retaliation (with nuclear weapons, for example) and give the Chinese rulers
world domination. On a silver platter? Oh, no! How Western! On one of those
exquisite China platters of the Ming Dynasty on which a dinner of 50 courses
is served!
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- This is why Project 863 was established in 1986. How
did I learn about it? >From my contact in China!
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- If I were a really practical and enterprising person,
I would hint that my contact is my secret intelligence agent (my spy) at
the top of the power structure in China. I am sure that the NewsMax.com
management would give me a 10 percent raise. But alas, I confess that my
"contact in China sent me " no, not a top-secret Chinese government
document, but a four-page article from the Wuhann TV station magazine,
which every American could buy (as a tourist in China, for example) and
have translated.
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- The article described the establishment of Project 863,
a kind of academy of science and technologies necessary for the development
of post-nuclear superweapons. I will quote just the opening sentence:
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- In early 1986 two famous Chinese scientists, Wang Da
Ian and Chen Fong Uan, came up with a proposal for the development of new
advanced technologies for defensive and offensive [!] warfare [the italics
and the exclamation mark are mine " L.N.]
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- Note that China is the only country in world history
that has the Ministry of Science and Technology. It registers all scientists
and engineers of all countries. On the other hand, I bet that no one in
the United States has ever heard of the "famous Chinese scientists
the article mentions. The rationale of the ministry in the establishment
of Project 863 may be summed up as follows:
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- The preoccupation of the West in the past half millennium
has been the production of machines out of metal and the machine production
of goods and services. Hence the military power of the West has been based
on machines able to ride, swim and fly, as well as to fire bullets and
shells, launch missiles and drop bombs. The ship of Christopher Columbus
carried cannons. The war machines enabled England to "gain a territory
that exceeded that of England itself 90 times.
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- Source of Today's Military Might
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- Now, today's global military power comes not from machine-building
plants, but from labs studying genes, chromosomes, genomes, as well as
waves, able to kill, for example, only non-Chinese, and hence incapacitate
the crews of all bombers, space vehicles and submarines as long as they
are non-Chinese.
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- Project 863 can freely buy in any country anything for
its research. The United States may refuse to sell to China any machine-like
weapons such as a bomber or a submarine. But who can refuse to sell something
connected with genic research or genetic engineering or electromagnetic
waves? My God! This is medicine, microbiology, physics or another field
of science.
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- What Western scientist would refuse to work in such
a peaceful scientific field in China if he is paid more than he can hope
for in any other country?
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- Thus Project 863 has at its disposal not only everything
necessary for its development of non-machine post-nuclear superweapons,
but also the scientific manpower of the entire world. Except for Iraq,
perhaps. That global villain Saddam Hussein may refuse to let go of that
Iraqi scientist who is in charge of mustard gas as it was produced in 1915.
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- This piece is a variation on one of the themes of my
book in progress: "Out of Moscow and Into New York: A Life in the
Geostrategically Lobotomized West in the Age of Terrorism and Post-Nuclear
Superweapons." Publishers: the 27-page proposal and the first 130-page
part of the book can be mailed to you if you apply to me (<mailto:navlev@cloud9.net>navlev@cloud9.net,
tel. 001 718 796 6038).
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