He gambled that a sudden attack would leave the Americans unable to respond in time. The American law obligates the United States to defend Taiwan from a mainland attack.īut now General Zhang was preparing for such a sudden strike. American backing for Taiwan, codified in the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, was the main impediment to retaking the island. China waited patiently for decades to take back the island state that is the main obstacle preventing Chinese Communist leaders from achieving their dream of total regional hegemony. It was Taiwan, the vibrant democratic state 100 miles off the coast of southern China that has been a thorn in the side of Communist rulers for decades since Chinese Nationalists under General Chiang Kai-shek took refuge there in the late 1940s during the civil war with the Communists. The ultimate target of the planned Chinese satellite attacks was not the United States. The system is heavily reliant on the scores of military satellites. The new rapid bombing system gave the Americans the power to conduct precision strikes using long-range conventional and nuclear missiles, drone aircraft, and autonomous naval vessels against any location on earth in fifteen minutes or less after orders were given. General Zhang, a former strategic missile forces leader, saw the coming solar storm as the perfect opportunity for a surprise anti-satellite attack on critical satellites used by the Americans for intelligence, navigation, and communications-the backbone of the high-technology US military forces that only a few years earlier had perfected, after years of delays, a new attack system called Prompt Global Strike.
He had been waiting for just such a solar event after being informed by the Meridian Center two days earlier of unusual solar activity that might produce a solar storm. The complex is only accessible from a network of high-speed rail tunnels used by Chinese Communist Party and PLA leaders to escape in times of crisis or war.Ĭentral Military Commission Chairman General Zhang Shengmin was in the complex. The bunker is used for senior leaders and commanders and was built in limestone karst caves underneath a hard rock layer. Western Hills is on the outskirts of Beijing and was built more than a mile below ground to protect against nuclear attacks. The unit was located in the secret Western Hills complex, China’s version of the Pentagon’s National Military Command Center. The flash message reached the commander of a special group, Senior Colonel Xie Zhaohui, working under the command of the Joint Staff Department Operations Bureau. The advanced quantum communications used by the People’s Liberation Army made clandestine interception nearly impossible for the electronic snoopers at the US National Security Agency that for decades had pilfered easily most Chinese military electronic signals. Technicians at the Beijing space weather monitoring station immediately notified the Central Military Commission that a major solar storm would reach earth in 18 hours and would likely cause a massive disruption of electronic devices, including sensitive military and civilian satellites orbiting earth some 300 miles in space up to the high-flying birds circling 22,300 miles in geosynchronous orbit.ĭetails of the coming solar storm were sent via unhackable, quantum communications-encrypted, underground fiber optic lines China had installed beginning in the late 2010s. The flare had been detected by China’s Meridian Project, a network of fifteen monitoring stations that saw something unusual-a coronal mass ejection-a large jet of ionized gas and magnetic particles shooting out of the sun’s corona and heading directly for earth. The war started with a solar flare on the surface of the sun, 93 million miles away.
The war did not begin as Pentagon planners had prepared-a missile fired at a US warship or a military base in Alaska or Hawaii.
China has covertly declared war on the United States of America. Ji Deyuan and Lan Yongming, China’s Strategy for Invigorating the Armed Forces Amid Peaceful Development, 2010 “Occupy the strategic high ground for information supremacy-outer space.”
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