A US newspaper is reporting that China earlier this month carried out a series of âsimulatedâ attacks targeting Taiwan.
âThe tests included multiple firings of short and medium-range ballistic missiles as well as land-attack cruise missiles,â the Washington Times reported.
The report was written by national security journalist Bill Gertz, who has established a reputation for his intelligence community contacts. Gertz earlier broke news of China secretly testing Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs).
Citing US officials, Gertz said Chinese military forces recently carried out a series of ballistic and cruise missile tests that âsimulated salvos of attacks on Taiwan.â
According to Gertz, China has between 1,000 and 1,600 DF-16 medium-range and DF-11 and DF-15 short-range missiles within range of Taiwan and recently deployed a new DH-10 land-attack cruise missile.
The latest missile tests may actually have taken place while US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Beijing on Sept. 4.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2012/09/23/2003543441
âThe tests included multiple firings of short and medium-range ballistic missiles as well as land-attack cruise missiles,â the Washington Times reported.
The report was written by national security journalist Bill Gertz, who has established a reputation for his intelligence community contacts. Gertz earlier broke news of China secretly testing Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs).
Citing US officials, Gertz said Chinese military forces recently carried out a series of ballistic and cruise missile tests that âsimulated salvos of attacks on Taiwan.â
According to Gertz, China has between 1,000 and 1,600 DF-16 medium-range and DF-11 and DF-15 short-range missiles within range of Taiwan and recently deployed a new DH-10 land-attack cruise missile.
The latest missile tests may actually have taken place while US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was in Beijing on Sept. 4.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2012/09/23/2003543441