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Deterrent Influence. "If a potential aggressor knew in advance that his aggression would bring that answer, then I am convinced that he would not commit aggression . . . Siberia and much of China, notably Manchuria, are vulnerable, from the standpoint of transport and communication . . . Is it not time that the Chinese Communists knew that if, for example, they send their Red armies openly into Viet Nam [Indo-China], we will not be content merely to try to meet their armed forces at the point they select . . . but by retaliatory action of our own fashioning...
...front line he talked of is one of the richest areas in Asia-Manchuria. In the 2½ years since Mao Tse-tung's Communists captured China, it has become Red China's breadbasket, industrial heart and political bellwether. It is also the arsenal, supply depot and staging area for Chinese armies in Korea, and the constantly expanding haven of the 1,500-plane Red Chinese air force which hovers buzzard-like over the stalemate in Korea...
...boss of its 36 million people, little-known Kao Kang is one of Chinese Communism's big men. Not many visitors, even among those welcome in other parts of Red China, are permitted to see Kang's Manchuria,which Peking calls "the Northeast District." But in guarded progress reports, the Communists showed last week how completely the Red future in China hinges on the 443,275-square-mile land of the Manchu, a land nominally Chinese but actually north of the Great Wall and outside of China proper. Examples...
...airplanes (including 900 jet-powered MIG-iss), to create for China, in a matter of months, the world's fourth largest air force (after the U.S.S.R., the U.S., Britain). Together, the Russians and the Chinese now have in Asia enough planes and ready-built bases (from Manchuria to Indo-China) to seize control of the air throughout the Far East, including the air over Japan...
...While I was and am today against bombing across the Yalu," Vandenberg testified, "it does not mean by any stretch of the imagination that I might not be for it tomorrow . . . Hitting across the Yalu, we could destroy or lay waste all of Manchuria and the principal cities of China if we utilized the full power of the U.S. Air Force . . . But... in my opinion we cannot afford to ... peck at the periphery as long as we have a shoestring Air Force . . . The fact is that the U.S. is operating a shoestring Air Force in view of its global responsibilities...