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way to headquarters in that time, the next destination you will
be landing at will be a security ice cave in Tibet. Now, go!"
PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARmy NAVY EASTERN FLEET
(TAIWAN OPERATIONS) HEADQUARTERS,
JUIDONGSHAN NAVAL BASE, FUJIAN PROVINCE,
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
SUNDAY, 18 MAY 1997, 2316 HOURS LOCAL
(17 MAY, 1416 HOURS ET)
"Greetings to you, Comrade Admiral Sun Ji Guoming," Gen-
eral Major Qian Shugeng, the elderly deputy commander for
plans of the Military Command Headquarters Targeting Tai-
wain, said in a low, gravelly voice. "It is a pleasure to present
our operational plans to you on behalf of the general staff. I
will now turn the briefing over to my young deputy, Colonel
Lieutenant Ai Peijian. Colonel Peijian has been most helpful
in preparing this briefing for you. He is one of our hardest
workers and a true and loyal son of the Party."
The nearly eighty-year-old general officer waved a withered
hand to tonight's briefer, Colonel Lieutenant Ai Peijian-
" young" in his case meant about age fifty-five-who moved
to his feet and bowed respectfully. "Welcome, comrade, to
our status briefing regarding our standing war plans for the
glorious pacification and reunification with the rebel Nation-
alist Chinese on the island of Taiwan. Before I begin in detail,
I am happy to report that our plans are in perfect order and
await only the command from our Paramount Leader to exe-
cute the war plan. In less than one week, we can destroy the
Nationalists' defenses, capture the Nationalist president and his
key advisors and Kuomintang leadership, and start the process
of reunification under the Communist Party of China."
I 'That will be for me and Comrade General Chin to decide,
Colonel," Sun said, impatiently waving a hand for the briefing
to begin.
Just two minutes into the briefing, Sun knew that not much

had been changed-this was the same briefing he had been
given every two weeks for the past year now. This military
committee-the Operations and Plans Committee, part of the
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Military Command Headquarters Targeting Taiwan, or
MCHTT, based here in Juidongshan-was in charge of con-
tinually revising the war plans drawn up by the Central Mili-
tary Commission, China's main military command body, for
the initial attack, invasion, occupation, and subjugation of the
rebel Chinese Nationalist government on the island of For-
mosa. Every two weeks, the MCHT`T was required to brief the
Central Military Commission or its designated representative-
that had been Admiral Sun Ji Guoming for quite some time
now-on any changes to the war plan made because of force
or command changes on either side.