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US report suggested the Three Gorges Dam might be targeted

Storm across the Taiwan Strait
By Chris Hogg
BBC Taiwan correspondent

Seven and a half lines of text, tucked away at the end of an inch-thick Pentagon report on the military capabilities of China's People's Liberation Army, have provoked a stream of vitriol from China's state media.

The offending passage says political and military leaders in Taipei have suggested acquiring weapons capable of striking against the Chinese mainland as a cost-effective means of deterrence.
"Proponents of strikes against the mainland apparently hope that merely presenting credible threats to China's urban population, or high-value targets, such as the Three Gorges dam, will deter Chinese military coercion," the report said.
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