Yeah, just like in 1971, India's attack on East Pakistan was considered by China, an attack against Beijing. Remember, China has no Policy of Armed Intervention in any war forget about starting WW III with USA.
Pakistan is still in its covert war against USA, not an open war. Pakistan is now a sitting Duck after giving all the reasons to USA to at least take out her Nukes.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> US, Pakistan Near Open War
>
> Chinese Ultimatum Warns Washington Against Attack
> Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D.
>
> China has officially put the United States on notice that Washington's
> planned attack on Pakistan will be interpreted as an act of aggression
> against Beijing. This blunt warning represents the first known strategic
> ultimatum received by the United States in half a century, going back to
> Soviet warnings during the Berlin crisis of 1958-1961, and indicates the
> grave danger of general war growing out of the US-Pakistan confrontation.
> "Any Attack on Pakistan Would be Construed as an Attack on China"
>
> Responding to reports that China has asked the US to respect Pakistan's
> sovereignty in the aftermath of the Bin Laden operation, Chinese Foreign
> Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu used a May 19 press briefing to state
> Beijing's categorical demand that the "sovereignty and territorial integrity
> of Pakistan must be respected." According to Pakistani diplomatic sources
> cited by the *Times of India*, China has "warned in unequivocal terms that
> any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China." This
> ultimatum was reportedly delivered at the May 9 China-US strategic dialogue
> and economic talks in Washington, where the Chinese delegation was led by
> Vice Prime Minister Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai
> Bingguo.1<http://tarpley.net/#f1-ref>Chinese warnings are implicitly
> backed up by that nation's nuclear missiles,
> including an estimated 66 ICBMs, some capable of striking the United States,
> plus 118 intermediate-range missiles, 36 submarine-launched missiles, and
> numerous shorter-range systems.
>
> Support from China is seen by regional observers as critically important for
> Pakistan, which is otherwise caught in a pincers between the US and India:
> "If US and Indian pressure continues, Pakistan can say `China is behind us.
> Don't think we are isolated, we have a potential superpower with us,'" Talat
> Masood, a political analyst and retired Pakistani general, told
> AFP.2<http://tarpley.net/#f2-ref>
>
> The Chinese ultimatum came during the visit of Pakistani Prime Minister
> Gilani in Beijing, during which the host government announced the transfer
> of 50 state-of-the-art JF-17 fighter jets to Pakistan, immediately and
> without cost.3 <http://tarpley.net/#f3-ref> Before his departure, Gilani had
> stressed the importance of the Pakistan-China alliance, proclaiming: "We are
> proud to have China as our best and most trusted friend. And China will
> always find Pakistan standing beside it at all times….When we speak of this
> friendship as being taller than the Himalayas and deeper than the oceans it
> truly captures the essence of our
> relationship."4<http://tarpley.net/#f4-ref>These remarks were greeted
> by whining from US spokesmen, including Idaho
> Republican Senator Risch.
>
> The simmering strategic crisis between the United States and Pakistan
> exploded with full force on May 1, with the unilateral and unauthorized US
> commando raid alleged to have killed the phantomatic Osama bin Laden in a
> compound at Abottabad, a flagrant violation of Pakistan's national
> sovereignty. The timing of this military stunt designed to inflame tensions
> between the two countries had nothing to do with any alleged Global War on
> Terror, and everything to do with the late March visit to Pakistan of Prince
> Bandar, the Saudi Arabian National Security Council chief. This visit had
> resulted in a *de facto* alliance between Islamabad and Riyadh, with
> Pakistan promising troops to put down any US-backed color revolution in the
> kingdom, while extending nuclear protection to the Saudis, thus making them
> less vulnerable to US extortion threats to abandon the oil-rich monarchy to
> the tender mercies of Tehran. A joint move by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to
> break out of the US empire, whatever one may think of these regimes, would
> represent a fatal blow for the fading US empire in South Asia.
>
> As for the US claims concerning the supposed Bin Laden raid of May 1, they
> are a mass of hopeless contradictions which changes from day to day. An
> analysis of this story is best left to literary critics and writers of
> theatrical reviews. The only solid and uncontestable fact which emerges is
> that Pakistan is the leading US target — thus intensifying the anti-Pakistan
> US policy which has been in place since Obama's infamous December 2009 West
> Point speech.
>
> http://tarpley.net/2011/05/21/us-pakistan-near-open-war-chinese-ultimatum-warns-washington-against-attack/
>
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