{"id":81257,"date":"2018-08-21T11:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81257"},"modified":"2018-08-21T11:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:06:55","slug":"china-is-targeting-us-no-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81257","title":{"rendered":"China is Targeting US? No, really??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-81032 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/HH-60-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attention on deck! Listen up! It appears that China, our esteemed trading partner, and manufacturer of multiple hundreds of thousands of brands of US-bound electronics junk, is not only forming its very own Nuke Triad Club, but is also targeting our very own turf, the island of Guam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/08\/17\/pentagon-china-close-to-nuclear-triad-has-practiced-targeting-us\/\">https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/08\/17\/pentagon-china-close-to-nuclear-triad-has-practiced-targeting-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ain\u2019t that just sweet??? \u00a0After all those stories about the Norks in Norkiland targeting the US\u2019s left coast and Guam, now we have to worry about the Chinese doing it, too?<\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pentagon, for the first time, has publicly reported what commanders in the Pacific have known about, and kept a wary eye on, for some time: China is practicing long-range bombing runs against U.S. targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the Defense Department annually reports on the rapid growth in capabilities of China\u2019s air, land and sea forces, the 2018 report is the first to acknowledge the direct threat to U.S. territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecent developments on China\u2019s H-6K variant of its Badger bomber give the bomber \u201cthe capability to carry six land-attack cruise missiles, giving the PLA a long-range standoff precision strike capability that can range Guam,\u201d the report said. It also acknowledged frequent bombing practice runs that U.S. commanders at the newly renamed U.S. INDOPACOM in Hawaii have watched expand in numbers and distance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">&#8212; Military Times article<\/p>\n<p>There is a link in the article to another article on how China has been practicing bombing runs against the USA territory of Guam. Now, that\u2019s just rude.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another link to an article regarding the proposed $716 billion DoD budget for FY2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2018\/08\/20\/this-week-in-congress-us-senate-debates-pentagon-spending-bill\/\">https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2018\/08\/20\/this-week-in-congress-us-senate-debates-pentagon-spending-bill\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe we should stop sending our technology to China for manufacturing. You know, keep it close to the buttons on the front of your blouse or shirt.<\/p>\n<p>We did talk about that the other day: bringing all US manufacturing home to Mama, but no one brought up this very subject, which could have been addressed.<\/p>\n<p>I know it would run up the cost of the iPad for Applefans, but \u2013 well, they\u2019re obsessed with Appletoys, anyway, and I\u2019m so unimpressed with all of that stuff that I\u2019m still using a 15-year-old computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention on deck! Listen up! It appears that China, our esteemed trading partner, and manufacturer of &hellip; <a title=\"China is Targeting US? No, really??\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81257\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China is Targeting US? 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