China Will Not Hesitate WW-III To Protect Iran
Major General Zhang Zhaozhong from the Chinese National Defense University said China will not hesitate to protect Iran even if with a third World War, and that not hesitating to fight a third World War would be entirely for domestic political needs.
The Chinese Communist Party Foreign Ministry said during a press conference in Beijing on November 23rd (the same day that the US announced new sanctions against Iran) that China is opposed to unilateral sanctions against Iran.
A recent IAEA report (International Atomic Energy Agency) revealed what we’ve heard before, that Iran may secretly be developing nuclear weapons.
China evidently purchases large quantities of oil from Iran. China is Iran’s biggest trading partner totaling $30 billion. Voice-of-America has reported that according to Chinese customs data, this year (2011) Iran could become China’s 2nd largest crude oil supplier.
In the mean time, the US DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), with a quarter of a billion dollars, is developing a Hypersonic Missile weapon system for a World War III scenario. The AHW (Advanced Hypersonic Weapon) is part of what’s called Conventional Prompt Global Strike and is meant to deliver conventional weapon attacks to any site on the planet within no more than 60 minutes at Mach 20.
In addition, Reuters recently reports, U.S. military chief General Martin Dempsey: Unclear if Israel would alert U.S. ahead of attack on Iran.
Iran has warned that it will respond to any attacks by hitting Israeli and U.S. interests in the Gulf. Analysts say Tehran could retaliate by closing the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway where about 40 percent of all traded oil passes.
In this regard, the question of late has been… Will Israel do it? Will they strike Iran?
Also, were they responsible for the mysterious explosion November 12 at an Iranian missile base facility? (haven’t heard much about that since…)
Update, December 2, While this story has not been caught by any of the major wires, The Australian’s Jerusalem correspondent Sheera Frankel reports something quite disturbing: “All eyes on Israel after second Iranian blast. CLOUDS of smoke billowed above the city of Isfahan – evidence that the latest strike against Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program had hit its target.” (Source: ZeroHedge.com)
Knowing that both Russia and China have trade relations with Iran, and knowing that China relies on Iran for much of its oil, would they sit back and not become involved after an Israel-Iran attack?
It’s a dangerous game all around, for sure. Iran promising to destroy Israel – Israel threatening to take out Iran’s nuke facilities – the IAEA saying that Iran is developing nukes – A Chinese General saying they would not hesitate to bring on WWW-III to protect Iran…
…and we think that $100/barrel oil is high now??
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And just last week they announce the massive “tunnels of nukes” found in China. China doesn’t let anyone know anything China doesn’t want them to know about. Can’t blame them. We are ramping up troops in Australia, building the worlds largest naval base 300 miles off Shanghai and have 2 aircraft carriers in the middle east with more ships on their way and putting up missile defensive weapons in Europe. Ya can’t tell me this is all for the benefit of Iran. If it were China and/or Russia doing this around the US, WWIII would already be underway. World wide protests, world wide economic failure = world wide government failure = another world war coming up as a global false flag event. History always repeats itself.
Where did Iran promise they would destroy Israel? Their president made a declaration amongst the lines of “the middle east would be a better place without Israel”, which is different.
Also it is well known that Israel has nukes. They don’t officially acknowledge it but they don’t deny it either. Why nobody is complaining? Don’t forget that US medias are strongly biased.
Don’t think for a moment that because you may not be jewish that you are safe.This Iranian leadership has stated many times if you are not of their radical beliefs you do not deserve to live..period.Not even with in their own religion do they tolerate anything less or you will be killed.
My father spent 40 years of his life in the middle east particularly Iran.I do not need the news to tell me what life is like there…my family lived it.
“Where did Iran promise they would destroy Israel?”, by Dave the cave dweller….
Here ya go Dave:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206823,00.html
Oh, you’re linking to the fox news “Fair & Balanced” site. So to quote: “Although the main solution is for the elimination of the Zionist regime, at this stage an immediate cease-fire must be implemented,” Ahmadinejad said
The elimination of the Zionist regime doesn’t mean to “Destroy Israel”. It just means a change in their government. Given the rise of massive recent protests in Israel (that you won’t see much on foxnews), I don’t think that would be a bad idea.
Defensive missiles in Europe is an outrage and tantamount to starting a war??? You were kidding, right? The Southern European countries fear Iran will use it’s newly aquired missile capability and it’s newly aquired nuclear capability to attack them so they want a “defensive” capability and you think they are war mongers!! And where did Iran get these new offensive weapons? From China, North Korea, Russia the very countries you seem to support by your outrage that Europe has the temerity to want to defend itself from attack from Iran.
He has called Israel a fake regime and has said MANY times Israel must be wiped off the map.As well he has said the killing of 6million jews during ww2 by hitler and the nazi’s is a myth….Where have you been?
Their nation is surrounded by people who HATE?If your neighbors were trying to kill you just because they did not like the name Dave and felt you were filth because of it and had many thousands of weapons aimed at you and your family because of it,wouldnt you go out and buy a gun,a BIG one?
You could say well I would move…some would some would not,it is their home.There is alot wrong with all races but Hate turns men into maggots,murderous ones.period history proves it and so does the news everyday.
Thank you!
I am not a fan at all of China but I can fully understand ANY country protecting their best interest just as the United States would. China is completely dependent on energy to function and cannot lose its suppliers no matter what. If the United States were to lose Canada or Mexico to a foreign country stopping its supply of oil coming from either of those countries the U.S. would go to a World War 3 setting.
What would happen if the U.S. and other allies put up a blockage around Iran that prevented Iran from shipping oil to China? The Chinese would run the blockage and the decision to shoot at Chinese warships escorting oil tankers would be do you start the third world war at that point.
The huge question arises IF the United States stays out of an Israeli strike on Iran or not. If the U.S. stays out of it, the Chinese will likely do the same, other than suppling Iran with sophisticated weapons as the U.S would do with Israel. The problem is an Iran and Israeli war means a large scale regional Middle Eastern war. Hezbollah has at least 150,000 rockets and missiles ready to pummel Israel’s tiny area. Syria you know will get involved and has hundreds of scuds and other missiles ready to hit Israel. Egypt is another wild card along with Pakistan. Israel has hundreds of nukes including most of their arsenal being thermalnuclear (hydrogen bombs) and will use them. Nukes start flying and it is unlikely that it will stop anytime soon.
What is the answer? If Iran backed out of the nuclear agreement like North Korea did and the U.S. and NATO just sanctioned them like they did with India and Pakistan back in the 90′s, this might be a way of easing the situation. Then convince Israel to live with it. The problem with this is that this would give the green light for Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and other countries around the region to start their own nuke programs. Countries having nuclear weapons does not mean that they will ever use them. The MAD philosphy worked between the U.S. and USSR and both countries had many more nukes than they have now.
This is a problem that probably has the best minds stumped for answers. There are no good answers, just one is less severe than the other. The best answer for everyone is to prepare for hell on Earth to develop over in the Middle East and get together your plans and supplies in well order NOW. Time is running out, the next new moon is Christmas Eve and within 3-5 days before or after a new moon is when Israel would strike Iran because the skies are at the darkest. Besides, having your supplies ready is a good idea if some natural disaster strikes before this happens. NOW IS THE TIME, don’t delay any longer, my suggestion to everyone.
Interesting analysis.
I think that the best way forward is for all countries involved to firstly agree to respect the rule of international law. To reform the UN and create an international criminal court with real powers.
For a third world war to begin, someone would have to break international law. Agreed?
This is not too much to ask when you look at the alternative. A third world war would be devastating to our species. It would not be a long drawn out war. It could be over in a matter of hours.
Sounds like the attack of the trolls tonight Ken…
@all; Would have to say that I agree with the girls by and large. As far as China making the threat of WW III, it is a political exercise and not one of military strategy and significance. We can simply wax their ass at any point in time, if there is a political will to do it. That the current admin. doesn’t have the cajones, either moral or political, to do the job is the biggest military problem we have. Big thumbnail sketch is this; china has about 30-38 deliverable ICBMs at most, they have no SLBMs, they do have cruise missiles but have not demonstrated a nuclear capability with them, they have no way to project power other than by ICBMs or their ONE and only aircraft carrier (which is still undergoing sea trials). For them to “do it” means to go “all in” in poker jargon. Something less than 50% of their ICBMs will be accurate enough to be successful and there are systems in place to interdict a significant number of them, AND THEY KNOW IT. They will be playing a sincere game of chicken and as long as we don’t blink they will back down. They have no choice, 45 mins after they launched the first missile, China would cease to exist!!! Now I’m not trying to minimize the potential damage to the US were this to happen, but it is easily survivable for us and not so, for them. As far as the Chinese navy, the US navy is larger than both the Russian and Chinese navies combined and for them to overwhelm a blockade by US warships is…well, see above. While darkness is always desired in ground campaigns it is not necessary these days, for the technology and tactics that we use, for the air attack of a target with manned or unmanned craft. I would be willing to bet that the damage to the sites in Iran were done either by insurgent commando ops or by a heretofore unknown, stealth cruise missile, sanitized of course for your protection. While it seems like “the thing to do” to develop nukes, the capital investment in treasure and intellectual resources is far higher than most realize. Pakistan spends many times what it invested in creating their nukes, trying to maintain them and continuing to keep them secure. It seemed like a good idea at the time but what does the dog do when it catches the car? Many people don’t realize that S. Africa had a successful nuclear program, but abandoned it as impractical due to the cost of maintaining it. Anyway, with someone other than BHO as prez we will not have a problem with China, not that they won’t try. Enjoy, all.
@TrpodXL. I wish this were true about China, but like the Japanese before World War 2, the Asians are extremely secretive and as a report on Yahoo, China is LOADED with weapons that no one sees. As a country that controls most of the money in the world, they have the raw cash to buy, manufacture, and design all sorts of weapons. Money buys anything. I cannot believe Jane’s reports or Bulletin of Atomic Scientist, China just has too much money to work with not to be extremely well armed.
China does not report how much money they ACTUALLY spend. While the slanted figures given in the World Almanac about how the U.S. outspends almost all the combined world’s armies, it is not mentioned that a great deal of the money spent goes into “salaries”. Much money is wasted in the manufacturing of the “same” type of weapon that another country like China can produce for “1/10 the cost”. These figures do not show a broader sense of how much military goods come out in relation to costs. The old 125 dollar hammer syndrome. So how much does the U.S. actually outspend???
An ICBM is really nothing another than a large rocket, one that they put satellites in space, people into space. Back in the 1960′s and 1970′s many space designed rockets exploded and went off course and were extremely inaccurate. Now it is really quite simple for a country like China to manufacture and use these large scale rockets as they have put much into space, including manned capsules, something that the U.S. and USSR have done many times. Mobile based ICBM’s have improved in the past 10 years generations from the original design also.
SLBM’s are in navies such as France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, I think China has the technology that these countries have. Again too much money to spend for the technology necessary to develop this. China has advanced leaps in their navy, again because they have the enormous money to spend to do so. There is really no way of us knowing what the Chinese have in their subs, they are certainly not going to show anyone.
Another disturbing notion that I have noticed is an old adage that states, when you are weak you boast about what you have, when you have much and are strong you say nothing. China use to go around trying to convince everyone how powerful they were, now they are completely silent and if anything they are trying to hide their military budget and their military in general. This worries me a lot.
Back in the 1990′s the U.S. came to the rescue of Taiwan and China backed down. Now China does not back down to anything. I have been in fights throughout my high school and most the years before that, and the most feared opponent is someone that does not back down and will fight no matter what. I see this in China now, and this is not good.
China reminds me of ants or termites that put together these huge mounds because of their shear numbers. Chinese people are not stupid either, they have some brilliant minds over there and that is also very worrisome. Just look at how much they make for the rest of the world, including extremely high tech devices. Tandy and Radio Shack have sold out to the Chinese.
Now for some uplifting talk about the United States. The U.S. may very well have some kick butt technology that no ones know about either. Just as how the Iraqis were shocked over the stealth aircraft that devastated the iraq airforce and their air defense systems. Iraq did have one of the best air forces in the region during 1991, but stood no chance.
I do not take the U.S. lightly either, more inventions have come from the U.S. than any other country. I do not take Russia, the U.S., or China at all to be pushovers. This is the problem. World War 3 will be worse than any movie could envision. It will probably be fought with weapons that resemble the Terminator or some pre-Star Wars level. Disruptors, sonic devices, microwave technology, lasers, etc. Weapons the public knows nothing about, YET. I would not take any country with as much money as China has lightly. Back 15 years ago, absolutely yes, now, I don’t feel we can. By the way, nice to have you back visiting the site.
Here is a post I did some time ago while attempting to quantify the approximate number of nuclear weapons and where they are. Nuclear Weapons World Map
@ Ken. This is actually probably more accurate: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8927580/China-hiding-up-to-3000-nuclear-warheads-in-secret-tunnels.html China has had since 1964, 47 years to build up a nuclear arsenal. It said that China possessed 300 nukes back in the 1980′s, 30 years ago. There is NO WAY a country like China is going to let 3 decades go by and not add substantially to their nuclear arsenal, NO WAY. Only China knows how many nukes they have, but it is in the thousands.
ICBM technology for China took a huge jump around 1999 because of the technological jump of computers. You can say, this is speculation but good speculation, that China has manufactured 15-20 ICBM’s per year on the average for those 12 years. China most likely has about 200+ ICBM’s ready for use in secret tunnels all over China. China is not part of the nuclear treaties like SALT that Russia and the U.S. has. NO ONE MONITORS SECRET CHINA ON THEIR WEAPONS PROGRAMS. This should frighten the hell out of anyone, it does me.
I entirely agree with your notion that China is secretive. After all, why should they tell anyone, right? It mostly does them no good to reveal ‘things’. They probably do have many more nukes than is commonly believed by the main stream. They sure have plenty of money to do so… Thanks for the link.
Barely has the USD/Renminbi (or RMB) contract started to trade on the CME and already the exchange decided to hike the margin by 18.5%. And not only: in a broad action across the board, the CME hiked margins in some key FX contracts, including Aussie Dollar, Yen, Canadian Dollar, Forint, Zloty, and the Koruna. In addition, CME hiked two Interest Rate products including EM and I3. So if anyone was wondering why the AUDXXX dropped after hours, now you know.
Now they start with IR swaps (which is a HUGE move….) Methinks there’s a BIG hedge fund about to die.
So, conclusion, silver will be sold, gold will be bid. It has to happen amid the forex chaos. BUY.GOLD.NOW.
Ben needs to create inflation in the dollar anyway there is. QE (printing…) is quite politically unsavory at this point. SO…create a “flight” to dollars. This makes metals go down. Gold will not drop below 1700 (imho).
Wait for silver to come to you, somewhere around 28. It will drop as the dollar strengthens (DXY appreciates). Gold, not so much. Too much bid under it.
It’s all about to implode.
You sure said it how I believe it… “create a flight to dollars”. That is exactly the move right now. It will be temporary for the dollar though. It is amazing (but not surprising) that gold has remained strong throughout the flight to dollars. Once that particular move has played out, gold is going to explode, imho.
Lets not get intimidated by China now. As much as the current leftist regime in the White (Flag) House want to dismantle the U.S. Military, they haven`t (Thank G-d) accomplished that yet. At this point, the U.S would still demolish China. In fact it would be quite a short fight if we took our gloves off. Aside from the fact that (aside from Israel), the U.S. has the only “totally integrated” weapons system. The only vulnerable components of the U.S. ADVANCED SYSTEMS are those that are made in China.
Just one comment to make, Major General Zhang Zhaozhong is not a military official and is nothing to do with the Chinese government. He’s been making these kind of statements and predictions for years, and is a well known laughing stock in China for geting everything wrong. If anyone’s concerned by anything to come from this joke’s mouth, you needn’t.
Iran should defend it self from the west. They should only sell oil to the east RSSIA, CHINA ,INDIA,ETC.
Iran should also push all OPEC countrys to produce less oil and DITCH the dollar for oil trade and adopt the ureo, and boycott all american GOODS.
This will bring america on down.
Exactly what I have been telling everyone for months now: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/some-200-000-missiles-aimed-consistently-at-israel-top-idf-officer-says-1.410584
I just had a debate with someone about China stating it would be willing to go to World War 3 over America and Israel engaging in military conflict with Iran this person didn’t believe China or Russia said such a thing because according to them they are well read and they claim they never saw this warning in the media print. Well China has said it and I take it seriously because the country of China does have important trade interests with Iran and they will fight to protect their interests in Iran no one should take these type of statements lightly. The future of our planet is at stake. I don’t know how a peaceful solution can be achieved in the Mid-East it is a complex area. I have never witnessed this kind of tension in that area before I remember the previous wars in the past if my memory serves me right I don’t remember China or Russia saying they would go to World War 3. All we can do is wait and hope for a solution