China “Secret” Weapons And Not So Secret Intent.

 As Obama’s Asian trip approaches China’s communist leader Hu Jintao decorated  Professor Zhou Bihua of the PLA University of Science and Technology for her role in developing a “secret weapon”  pointed directly at the U. S.

Zhou was honored for her contributions to powerful electromagnetic pulse weapons, Boxun reported.

EMPs use millions or even tens of millions of watts of electromagnetic energy to destroy or disrupt all electronics within a large area, similar to the effect produced by an air burst of a nuclear weapon.

The report on the award is a rare disclosure of China’s work on the exotic weaponry, which are part of China’s asymmetric warfare capabilities including: anti-satellite weapons and cyber warfare capabilities.

A 2004 Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack warned that protecting the United States against the evolving EMP threat would require a mix of active defenses, passive defenses and policy changes.

Adm. Robert Willard, the new commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, said last week that while he favors greater military exchanges with China he is concerned by the PRC’s military buildup.

Willard said his major concern about China is “the uncertainty with regard to the military power that they’ve developed over the past year, which they’ve developed at an unprecedented rate. And what it really means for the region as a whole, I think, our regional partners are somewhat uncertain about it”  Looming large is widening angst over the foreign policy and growing fears over Obama’s unreliability

Willard has a skeptical view of China’s military than did his predecessor, Adm. Tim Keating. Willard views China’s military buildup as part of an effort by Beijing to drive the United States from Asia.

Simultaneously China’s former military intelligence chief, retired Gen. Xiong Guangkai, recently traveled to Hawaii as part of a propaganda effort to promote military relations with the United States. In the 1990s Guangkai said the U. S. would never defend Taiwan because it values Los Angeles too much – an obvious threat to use nuclear weapons against the U. S. in the event of a Chinese – Taiwanese conflict.

Although overshadowed by the recent arrest of two Chinese spies  U. S. intelligence labeled China and Iran as tops in spying to obtain U. S. dual use technology.

Other problems in Asia include Japan’s reconsideration of its alliance with the U. S. and South Korea’s trepidation about North Korea’s nukes and whether or not Obama will honors assurances to extend its “nuclear shield” over Seoul.

China, like Russia and other adversaries senses weakness; see confusion, and believe they can exploit Obama’s chaotic foreign policy to their collective advantage.