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Media Release  Thursday, 7 November 2013

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 1800 636 432
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
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China showcases nuclear deterrent to warn U.S. and allies, ‘Back off’

China has sent a blunt message that the Asian NATO policy Australia is part of, in blind support of the U.S. and Britain, targeted at China, is pushing the Asia-Pacific dangerously close to thermonuclear world war.

All major Chinese state-run news outlets last week published major articles and detailed maps with pictures, photographs and graphics, showing the ability of the Chinese Navy, especially their strategic submarine force, to attack the West Coast of the United States. They also identify 7500 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles which could reach most population centres on the East Coast via the Arctic.

China’s message is clear: it is ready, if there is a nuclear attack by the U.S. and NATO on China, to launch its own deadly nuclear counterattack.

The People’s Daily, on 31 October, quoted Chinese military expert Yin Zhuo characterising China’s strategic missile forces as components of a “counterattack strategy.” That is, “Only when our opponents use nuclear weapons to attack us, will we use nuclear weapons to counterattack them.”

The media blitz focussed on China’s submarine force, to demonstrate how deadly its counterattack would be. In a nuclear exchange, submarines are the most lethal, because they have a 85-90% chance of survival, compared to a 5-50% chance for land-based missiles and bombers.

Under the headline “China for the First Time Possesses Effective Underwater Nuclear Deterrence against the United States”, the Chinese Global Times reported, “This is the first time in 42 years since the establishment of our navy’s strategic submarine force that we reveal on such a large scale the secrets of our first-generation underwater nuclear force.”

The secrets include the fact that China’s submarine fleet—the second-largest in the world—is currently on routine strategic patrol, “which means that China for the first time has acquired the strategic deterrence and second strike capability against the United States.”

The Global Times revealed, “Our JL-2 SLBMs [submarine-launched ballistic missiles] have become the fourth type of Chinese nuclear missiles that threaten the continental United States, after our DF-31A, DF-5A and DF-5B ICBMs.”

“Because the Midwest states of the U.S. are sparsely populated, in order to increase the lethality, [our] nuclear attacks should mainly target the key cities on the West Coast of the United States, such as Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego. The 12 JL-2 nuclear warheads carried by one single Type 094 SSBN can kill and wound 5 million to 12 million Americans.”

Furthermore: “If we launch our DF 31A ICBMs over the North Pole, we can easily destroy a whole list of metropolises on the East Coast and the New England region of the U.S., including Annapolis, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Portland, Baltimore and Norfolk, whose population accounts for about one-eighth of America’s total residents,” the Global Times said.

China’s media blitz is further, stark, confirmation of the warnings that the U.S. statesman Lyndon LaRouche, the Citizens Electoral Council, experienced statesmen such as former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, and numerous retired military officers in Australia and the U.S., have all issued in the past two years: that the present U.S.-British-Australian policy towards China, is pushing the world to the brink of thermonuclear war.

Lyndon LaRouche warned last week, in a widely circulating statement, “On the Eve of War: Glass-Steagall Now Would Change Everything,” that the danger of a general war is growing by the hour, and that the main factor driving toward a potential thermonuclear war of extinction is the commitment of the trans-Atlantic financial oligarchy to push ahead with its genocidal policy of bail-outs and bail-ins of the bankrupt financial system.

By contrast to the rotting financial systems of America and Europe, the Chinese and Asian economies are building prosperity on strong physical economic development. China is offering to collaborate with the region to build the “Silk Road” Eurasian Land Bridge connecting Asia to Europe, and the Maritime Silk Road. If the people of the U.S. and Australia reject the schemes for war with China, and demand their governments enact a Glass-Steagall separation of essential banking from the parasitical derivatives speculation of London and Wall Street, our countries can be freed from the shackles of financial predators and return to a commitment to our own national economic development. Then we will have the basis for economic collaboration with China, instead of the insane mindset of geopolitical rivalry that will end in a nuclear showdown that few will survive.

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