It’s dangerous to underrate China’s war-making abilities

Thursday, March 21, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

Underestimating the power of Russia and China to produce advanced weapons just because they have backward infrastructures is mighty dangerous. China has been sending its best and brightest to the U.S. and Europe to be educated for a generation. They have proven that they can develop just about any weapon that they want such as nuclear bombs and intercontinental missiles.

To rely on whatever the sources of this article were, is to invite disaster. In the past U.S. intelligence has been wrong more often than right with the newspapers following a close second.

Lorrin Peterson

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