The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won, Revised and Expanded Edition

China’s Nukes in Space and the Assassin’s Mace

We Chinese will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all of the cities east of Xian [in central China]. Of course, the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds of their cities will be destroyed by the Chinese.

—Major General Zhu Chenghu, People’s Liberation Army

Many peace-loving people in Europe and the United States find it hard to imagine that China—or any other country for that matter—would actually deploy offensive nuclear weapons in space. This would be a clear violation of the world’s international space treaty as well as an affront to all human decency. However, since the days of Sun Tzu, deception has been a Chinese military strategy of choice—a strategy designed to surprise ...