Your assessment on the x-strait issue is forthright and accurate typhoonpilot. Its time people got to know the truth about the "butchers of Beijing." Unfortunately quite a few ex-airforce types in the ROC are under the delusion that the sun rises out of China's a..e every morning. These are the guys with a second home in the US or Shanghai and are smarting from the current nationalist upswing. Still, dangerous times or a big bluff from big brother?? I believe its the latter.