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发帖数: 6973 | 1 The following, from (1) to (5), are published in the British newspaper
Telegraph's web site, in late evening of Feb 2 or early morning of Feb 3,
2011.
(1) Tim Ross, Holly Watt and Christopher Hope, WikiLeaks: US and China in
Military Standoff Over Space Missiles; The United States threatened to take
military action against China during a secret "star wars" arms race within
the past few years, according to leaked documents obtained by The Daily
Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks
/8299495/WikiLeaks-US-and-China-in-military-standoff-over-space-missiles.
html
("The Chinese assistant foreign minister complained that the US missile
defence programme was not simply 'defensive' but also 'offensive' because '
it includes lasers that attack a missile in launch phase over the sovereign
territory of the launching country'")
My comment:
(a) There is no Chinese translation for the "SC-19" missile.
(b) CSS-X-11 = DF-41. CSS is NATO codename
(c) The report states, "One month before the [America's own Feb 20, 2008]
strike, the US criticised Beijing for launching its own “anti-satellite
test."
I thought it should be "one YEAR before." There is no error here, See
Holly Watt, WikiLeaks: timeline of the space race.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks
/8299410/WikiLeaks-timeline-of-the-space-race.html
(US embassy in Beijing delivered TWO official protests, one on Jan 15, 2007
and the other, on Jan 7, 2008)
(d) The report says, "The Chinese strike in 2007 was highly controversial,
prompting * * * claims that it marked a revival of President Reagan’s 'Star
Wars' programme, that was abandoned in the 1980s.
It refers to
(i) the anti-satellite program, rather than anti-missile program (also known
as missile defense). See (2).
(ii) or missile defense itself. See (4).
(2) Tim Ross, and Holly Watt, WikiLeaks: US vs China in Battle of the Anti-
Satellite Space Weapons;
On the night of Feb 20, 2008, Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, was on
a plane to Hawaii when his telephone rang.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks
/8299491/WikiLeaks-US-vs-China-in-battle-of-the-anti-satellite-space-weapons
.html
Quote:
"That night, the US navy’s Ticonderoga-class cruiser, USS Lake Erie, scored
a direct hit on an American spy satellite, known as USA 193. The missile
used, a highly sophisticated SM-3, took about three minutes to climb 150
miles above the Earth, where it flew past the satellite before turning back
and destroying the target at an impact speed of 22,000mph.
"In January 2010, American intelligence detected a fresh Chinese anti-
satellite test. This time Beijing destroyed one of its own missiles, rather
than a satellite, 150 miles above Earth. The Americans regarded the move as
an 'anti-satellite test.'
(3) Gordon Rayner, WikiLeaks: Chinese Weapons Fall Into Hands of Insurgents
; Chinese-made weapons have fallen into the hands of insurgents fighting
Coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan because of China’s failure to
enforce export controls on arms to Iran, the leaked cables show.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8299388
/WikiLeaks-Chinese-weapons-fall-into-hands-of-insurgents.html
Note: Korla Missile Test Complex 库尔勒 导弹基地
Korla 库尔勒
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korla
(4) Holly Watt, WikiLeaks: The Race to Take Control of Space; The race to
take control of space raged throughout much of the cold war and has
previously been dominated by the Americans.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks
/8299408/WikiLeaks-the-race-to-take-control-of-space.html
Quote:
"By the end of the 1980s, the Star Wars plan had petered out.
"But in the late nineties, President Bill Clinton revived the missile
defence shield with the so-called 'Son of Star Wars' plan.
(5) The rest are raw data: the US cables themselves.
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