[Hoot Gibson]

I dont know if this was a missile launch from the Chinese or not, but the Chinese have been preparing for decades to fight with us. As soon as they think they can stalemate us they will make their move and take Taiwan back. Listen to the rhetoric that comes from their government officials and military leaders. It stares us right in the face yet we are the ones enabling them to build up their country and military. All trade with China should have been cut off a long time ago. But the corporations run this country and they can make goods extremely cheap over there. All of their military training focus' on fighting America. If they were on the same technological level as us, Id say we'd be seeing Chinese troops in our streets now.

You make some excellent points, Beetle. The Chi-Coms are certainly not our friends, regardless of how many dollars we provide them with to build their military. If they did fire a missile then we can bet that it was no accident. We may never know the truth but this administration does or will. The Chinese government is certainly not above making a military show of force to express its displeasure with our economic policies.

You are also right about the many threats that the Chinese have made against the US over the past few years, which continue to go unreported by most of our own media. The Chinese state media reports them because the threats have been cleared at the highest levels of their government. Our own state-controlled media virtually ignore them for the same reason.