China General Threatens War if Taiwan Targets Dam By Benjamin Kang Lim:

A Chinese general denounced an idea that Taiwan's military could threaten China's Three Gorges dam and said Wednesday that any strike on the world's biggest hydropower project would lead to war.

In its annual report to the U.S. Congress on China's military power, the Pentagon said proponents of strikes against China "apparently hope" that merely establishing places like the Three Gorges dam as targets would deter Chinese military coercion.

China will "be seriously on guard against threats from 'Taiwan independence terrorists,"' People's Liberation Army (PLA) Lieutenant General Liu Yuan said in a commentary in the official China Youth Daily, warning against such a move.

"(It) will not be able to stop war...it will have the exact opposite of the desired effect," Liu said.

"It will provoke retaliation that will 'blot out the sky and cover up the earth'," he said, quoting a Chinese idiom...

"Since Taipei cannot match Beijing's ability to field offensive systems, 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," it said.

Yeah, I think the communist dictatorship will feel free to attack the freely elected Taiwan government. Anyway, what about the part that the commies will retaliate by targeting US dams?