Navy Ballistic Missile Defense Success At Sea Today (04-26-2007)

“You do not have the strategic leverage that you had in the 1950s, when you threatened nuclear strikes on us. You were able to do that because we could not hit back. But if you hit us now, we can hit back. So you will not make those threats. In the end you care more about Los Angeles than you do about Taipei.”
-- a Chinese general’s remarks in October 1995 to Charles "Chas" Freeman, a retired American foreign service officer, and an interpreter during Richard Nixon’s 1972 trip to China

Lieutenant General Henry “Trey” Obering, Missile Defense Agency (MDA) director, announced the successful completion today of the latest Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense “hit to kill” intercept flight test.

Conducted jointly with the U.S. Navy, the test involved the simultaneous engagements of a ballistic missile “unitary” target (meaning that the target warhead and booster remain attached) and a surrogate hostile air cruise missile target....Click here for full story

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The following two questions come to mind:

Question #1 — What are the implications of this military technology to the US's 1971 Taiwan Relations Act based pledge to come to the defense of Taiwan in the case of military action by China?

Question #2 — How long before the Chinese steal or are given the technological data Clintondestinely to undermine or duplicate this defensive weapon? Note: Apparent misspelling intended.