Last updated on March 30th, 2013
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!
Sounds like the attack of the trolls tonight Ken…
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
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.
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.
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