Paul Joseph Watson
December 26, 2013
Chinese state media is once again bragging about
Beijing’s military prowess, touting the fact that China’s new H-6K
strategic bomber can attack U.S. military bases in South Korea as well
as the Japanese mainland using long range nuclear cruise missiles.
Image: H-6K strategic bomber (YouTube).
The report features on the prominent pro-Communist Party news website Want China Times.
“With a range of between 1,500 and 2,000 kilometers, the
CJ-10 meets the requirements of the PLA Air Force to possess the
capability to launch strategic missile attacks against US military
facilities and those of its allies in the Western Pacific,” states the
report.
The article also lauds the fact that the H-6K can target
the Japanese mainland without even leaving Chinese airspace, in
addition to Russian cities in the far east, all major cities in India,
as well as Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines, “in a potential war
against Southeast Asian neighbors over territories in the South China
Sea.”
“An H-6K taking off from the air base of the PLA’s 10th
air division in Anqing, Anhui province, would be able to strike at all
US military bases in South Korea,” states the report, noting that “the
long-range cruise missile has become a crucial part of China’s nuclear
arsenal.”
This is just the latest example of aggressive and bellicose rhetoric emerging out of China.
Earlier this month, a PLA military website bragged that China’s first aircraft carrier combat task force was close to rivaling the U.S. Navy.
In November, Chinese state-run media released a map showing the locations of major U.S. cities and how they would be impacted by a nuclear attack launched from the PLA’s strategic submarine force.
China’s moon landing program was also used as a reminder
of Beijing’s growing offensive capabilities, with one state media
report even discussing plans to turn the moon into a Star Wars-style “death star” from which the PLA could launch missiles against any target on Earth.
A display to promote China’s Jade Rabbit Moon rover also included a background photograph of
a mushroom cloud over Europe, a startling detail which some have
interpreted as an indication that Beijing’s space program is a cover for
the militarization of space.
China is currently embroiled in a territorial dispute
with Japan over the Senkaku Islands, tensions that were heightened
earlier today when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a shrine seen by critics as a symbol of Tokyo’s wartime aggression.
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