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Washington Times
July 31, 2002
China Pursues Arsenal Of Technology 
By Bill Gertz, The Washington Times
China is developing high-technology arms, including laser weapons and
radio-frequency bombs, to boost its ability to successfully carry out
warfare against the United States and other advanced military powers,
according to a recent Pentagon report.
Beijing's communist rulers also are using strategic deception to fool the
international community about China's long-term goals, says the annual
report to Congress on the People's Liberation Army.
The report, released this month, focuses primarily on China's conventional
and strategic nuclear arms buildup, which includes new types of ships,
aircraft, submarines and missiles. But it also reveals new details of
China's exotic weapons development efforts.
Among the key weapons are:
*Laser guns that can be used to blind soldiers and pilots and knock out U.S.
space-based intelligence and communications networks.
*Radio-frequency weapons that will electronically cripple command and
control electronic systems and make it impossible for militaries hit by the
bombs or missile warheads to conduct integrated warfare operations.
*Information operations from computers that would attack computer-based
infrastructures with viruses or other malicious codes.
Military analysts say the report provides new details on China's clandestine
military force modernization.
"This is all evidence that the People's Liberation Army is preparing to
compete with the United States in terms of future military technologies,"
said Richard Fisher, a specialist on the Chinese military with the Jamestown
Foundation, a Washington think tank.
"In both its ancient history and its future strategies, China places great
importance on the development of surprise weapons or trump-card weapons that
will attack critical weaknesses of their enemies, to include Taiwan and the
United States," Mr. Fisher said.
The report quotes a Chinese naval officer, Capt. Shen Zongchang, as saying
that mastering outer space "will be a requisite for military victory, with
outer space becoming the new commanding heights for combat."
Capt. Shen also said a key feature of future Chinese warfare will be widely
used "lightning attacks and powerful first strikes."
Key targets for Chinese attacks will be radar, radio stations,
communications facilities and command ships that will be hit with
precision-guided, electronic-attack and electromagnetic-pulse (EMP) weapons,
the report said.
The report notes that while China's government publicly opposes the
militarization of space, "privately China's leaders probably view
[anti-satellite weapons] and offensive counterspace systems, in general - as
well as space-based missile defense - as inevitabilities."
Acquisition of foreign technology has revealed that the Chinese military is
working on an "active [anti-satellite] ASAT capability."
Larry Wortzel, a former military attache in Beijing, said Chinese officials
have announced that their goal is to turn spacecraft into weaponry platforms
for space warfare.
"I think what it boils down to is the Chinese have focused on a range of
really high-tech war-fighting technologies that are going to be at the
cutting edge of 21st-century warfare," said Mr. Wortzel, who is now with the
Heritage Foundation.
Mr. Wortzel said the Chinese are conducting the kind of high-technology
military transformation that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has
proposed for the U.S. military.
China's military has studied how the United States conducts modern warfare
and the sensors that are involved, said Mr. Wortzel. "They are looking at
blind what we call C4ISR - command, control, communications, computers,
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance," he said.
"They know we can't fight without that stuff, and they're working at denying
it to us."
The Pentagon said China has placed a priority on radio-frequency weapons.
Chinese military officials have said these exotic weapons will be needed to
defeat enemy electronics in the 21st century.
Stephen Bryen, a former Pentagon official who took part in a congressional
review commission on China, said the Chinese were continuing to build up
military forces with U.S. technology, despite an embargo on transfers of
military technology and goods.
Most worrisome is the fact that China is acquiring design and manufacturing
technology for Global Positioning System navigation, the key element of
precision-guided bombs and missiles, Mr. Bryen said. "That is allowing them
to leapfrog ahead in weapons development," he said.
Mr. Bryen said the solution is to develop U.S. military bases on Taiwan,
which would preclude any kind of sudden attack on the island.
"That would put the problem of China to end once and for all," he said. 

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