Chinese Dr. Strangelove

From today's FT, FT.com / World / Asia-Pacific - Top Chinese general warns US over attack.

China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the US if it is attacked by Washington during a confrontation over Taiwan, a Chinese general said on Thursday

Great...

“We . . . will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian. Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds . . . of cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.”

I'm sure all the people in the cities east of Xian (which is like, almost all Chinese people), are delighted about this prospect.

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