Chinese Army Commander: War With US Increasing Reality

Monday, January 30, 2017
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
30.01.2017

Amid heightening tensions surrounding US President Donald Trump’s protectionist stance, the possibility of a trade war and even physical combat between the world’s two largest economies has become a full-fledged “reality.”

On the day that Donald Trump was sworn-in as the 45th President of the United States, Liu Guoshon, a Chinese Central Military Commission official, authored an op-ed pointing out that violence between China and America might not be so far into the future. “A war within the president’s term,” and “war breaking out tonight,” are not merely slogans, “but the reality,” Liu said.

Ian Bremmer, a Stanford-trained political scientist and inventor of the global political risk index, commented that, “Chinese officials are preparing for the worst, and they expect to retaliate decisively in response to any US policies they perceive as against their interests.” Bremmer added that Beijing’s moves to increase DF-21 missile tests and initiate casual aircraft carrier missions near Taiwan is asserting itself as a warning to Trump, rather than as a show of force.

The South and East China Seas, and their accompanying territorial disputes, are just two areas where violence could erupt. A more macabre prospect would involve North Korea and a doomsday-scenario deployment of nuclear-equipped intercontinental ballistic missiles. Last week, a senior North Korean military official who defected asserted that if the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) head Kim Jong-Un sensed his dynasty was under threat, the dictator would “press the button” to launch a nuke aimed at, for instance, Los Angeles, California, the second-most populous metropolitan area in the US. A former deputy ambassador from Pyongyang to London, the defector asserted that mutually-assured destruction would not deter Kim.

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