Taiwan

Give Nukes To Taiwan
By Daniel G. Jennings
There is a simple way to defuse the Taiwan crisis that will guarantee a peaceful solution, unfortunately none of leaders has the balls to implement it.
The simple solution is the same solution Ronald Reagan used in Europe back in the 1980s: deploy missiles with nuclear warheads to Taiwan. Currently Taiwan is threatened by the massive Chinese military and has little defense against Chinese aggression. Even if every man, woman and child on the island of Taiwan were armed the People’s Republic’s massive military could still easily overrun the country.
Yet if the Chinese leadership learned that Taiwan had one nuclear missile aimed at their capital the bullies of Beijing would quickly back down and talk peace. If Taiwan had just a few nukes aimed at Beijing and Shanghai the People’s Liberation Army would immediately put it’s plans to invade Taiwan into the nearest shredder, cancel all the exercises aimed at invading Taiwan and redeploy it’s troops away from invasion positions. Any Chinese general talking about invading Taiwan would quickly find himself the commandant of remote outpost on the Mongolian border where indoor plumbing is unknown. More importantly, the Chinese Communist Party would immediately recognize Taiwan’s independence and allow the island nation to join the UN.
Obviously, Taiwan couldn’t manufacture nukes overnight but we could. All the US would have to do to defuse the Taiwan crisis would be to ship a few nuclear tipped missiles from one of our facilities to Taiwan. This would take three or days at the most. There would be nothing Beijing could do about it.
There would be no Taiwan crisis and no need for a massive American military presence in the Taiwan Straights. A few technicians to man the missiles and nothing else. A few missiles manned by a few technicians could put an end to the Red Chinese menace here and now.
And history would be on our side, back in the 1980s, the Soviet Union was increasingly belligerent in Europe. The massive Red Army was bullying Western European nations, until Ronald Reagan deployed new short range Pershing II missiles with nuclear warheads to Germany. The Red Army quickly backed down in the face of the nuclear threat. A few years later the Red Army quietly pulled out of Eastern Europe and went home, the humiliated Soviet Union collapsed soon afterwards and the American missiles were withdrawn and scrapped.
The question we have to ask is why doesn’t President Bush deploy a few nuclear missiles to Taiwan to put an end to this Chinese threat? The People’s Liberation Army would be stopped and humiliated and like the Red Army before it soon collapse and bring the Chinese Communist Party down with it. The cost of doing so would be about the same as deploying a battalion of soldiers to Iraq. The risk to us would be nil, China has no weapons capable of hitting the US. Even if it did one US submarine could destroy every major Chinese city with it’s missiles meaning our retaliation would leave every Chinese leader and his family dead.
The answer is a disturbing one, the Chinese Communists unlike their Russian brethren are good businessmen. Their factories churn out lots of cheap products that make a lot of money for a lot of Americans. The Republican Party may have no fear of the Chinese Communist Party but they’re certainly scared to death of all the American businessmen who make money working with the Chinese. Republicans and Democrats alike fear the cutting off of the donation checks from those businessmen. Or worse seeing those donations flow to their opponents.
The real threat to our nation security isn’t the vast Chinese Army deployed in the provinces on the coast near Taiwan. It’s the politicians in Washington who value the cash flowing into their pockets more than their own country’s future.