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[quote user="Bucyrus"] The most obvious culprit is China.  They wanted us to see the missile launch, and see how close to California they could pull it off.  They are very irritated over our new QE2 fed monetary policy.   It will basically rip them off as holders of our debt.  A few years ago, they threatened to nuke Los Angeles over some other much less significant little issue they were unhappy about.  So when they saber-rattle, they seem to think of California.    Our officials got the message, but they don’t want to tell us, because if our public finds out, it will intensify China’s message.  More importantly, it would raise a call for some kind of response to China.  Moreover, if our country publicly called China on the launch, they could just deny it.  Or, if we recovered pieces of a Chinese missile, they could say that we staged it to make China look bad.    <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote] In the two weeks following this message, it seems that I am not the only one who came to this conclusion.  Nothing can be confirmed by the media, but there is a lot of buzz on the internet that this was China sending us a message.  Actually, I think it was not so much a matter of sending us a message, as it was a test of our reaction.   <o:p></o:p> What happened this morning between North and South Korea was a continuation of the same test.  The sinking of the South Korean ship earlier this year was part of the test.  On the surface, these incidents appear to be a conflict between North and South Korea, but actually they are a test of U.S. resolve by China.  The appearance that North Korea is an independent rogue that China can't control is an illusion that China has cultivated just to play these kinds of games with us.   <o:p></o:p> China’s test is to find out how far we can be pushed before we defend South Korea.  With that knowledge, China can gage whether they can take back Taiwan without causing us to go to war with them.
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