China’s defeats Indian troops at Himalayan border by throwing microwave oven

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China’s microwave pulse weapon defeats Indian troops at Himalayan border


An Indian fighter jet flies over a mountain range near Leh, the disputed border area between India and China. Picture: AFP

• By DIDI TANG
• THE TIMES
• 10:00AM NOVEMBER 17, 2020
• 111 COMMENTS

China’s military used microwave weapons to force Indian troops to retreat during a border stand-off in the Himalayas, a Beijing professor has claimed.
Its forces turned two strategic hilltops occupied by Indian soldiers “into a microwave oven”, Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing, told students during a lecture.
The Indian troops were forced back, allowing the positions to be retaken without an exchange of conventional fire, he said.

The People’s Liberation Army “beautifully” seized the ground without violating a no-live-shot rule governing the orders of engagement in the mountain stand-off.


A Chinese military show of strength in Tiananmen Square. Picture: Supplied

Microwave weapons focus high frequency electromagnetic pulses at targets, causing irritation and pain by heating up any human tissue in its way.
“We didn’t publicise it because we solved the problem beautifully,” Mr Jin said. “They [India] didn’t publicise it either because they lost so miserably.”
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The professor said that Chinese troops fired from the bottom of the hills and “turned the mountain tops into a microwave oven”.
“In 15 minutes, those occupying the hilltops all began to vomit,” he said. “They couldn’t stand up, so they fled. This was how we retook the ground.”
Indian army soldiers ride in a convoy along a highway leading towards Leh, bordering China. Picture: AFP
The two sides have been locked in a border dispute since April in the Ladakh region, which culminated in bloody hand-to-hand combat in the Galwan River valley in June. Twenty Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese were killed.
The microwave attack was said to have taken place on August 29.
The two countries have a longstanding dispute over their border, each accusing the other of encroaching on territory.
Despite rounds of high-level talks, the two armies have shown no sign of disengagement but are seeking to strengthen their positions, while sticking to the no-live-shot rule to avoid escalation and a repeat of the 1962 Sino-Indian War.
Chinese President Xi Jinping waves from a vehicle as he reviews the troops at a military parade in Beijing. Picture: Reuters
Microwave weapons attracted attention recently as America researched radio-frequency or electromagnetic pulse weapons that use high-energy radiation to attack targets.
This may be the first use of such weapons against hostile troops.
Mr Jin said in his lecture that India had surprised China by sending in a team of Tibetan soldiers, known for their mountaineering skills, to seize two critical hilltops on the southern bank of the Pangong Tso Lake, in eastern Ladakh on August 29.
“At the time, the western theatre command [of the People’s Liberation Army] was under huge pressure,” the scholar said. “These two hilltops are very important but we’d lost them.
“The central military commission was quite furious: ‘How could you be so careless as to let India seize the hilltops?’ So it ordered the ground be taken back but it also demanded that no single shot be fired.”

A convoy of Indian army trucks near Kashmir. Picture: Getty Images
Mr Jin said that it was almost impossible for the Chinese soldiers, who were mostly from the lowlands, to fight at an altitude of 5600m.
“Frankly speaking … their bodies won’t stand it,” he said. “Then they came up with the clever idea to use microwave weapons.”
Ten years ago America took a vehicle-mounted microwave weapon, called an Active Denial System, to Afghanistan. It was withdrawn, allegedly without being used in combat.
It is suspected that microwave weapons were used in an attack against US diplomats and their families in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, northwest of Hong Kong, in 2018.
They may also have been responsible for the symptoms described by American and Canadian diplomats posted to Cuba from 2016.
Most people exposed to microwave radiation report significant discomfort but no permanent ill-effects.
Some studies, however, suggest that long-term exposure might cause cancers.
The Times

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/wo...r/news-story/4683263ed8d35b735f37cd57715877a5

 

[nirvarq]

• June 7, 2018

China Pledges to Investigate Fears of Sonic Attacks on U.S. Diplomats

The Canton Place in Guangzhou, China, was one of two complexes housing American diplomats who became ill. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that a previous investigation in May had found nothing to explain the illness.Credit...Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times
By Jane Perlez and Steven Lee Myers

• June 7, 2018
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BEIJING — China said on Thursday that it is prepared to help get to the bottom of a mysterious illness that has sickened Americans working at the United States Consulate in the southern part of the country and led to the evacuation of a number of diplomats this week.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the government had already carried out an investigation in May after the first case of an American diplomat becoming sick in the city of Guangzhou was reported in April.
At the time, Chinese investigators had not been able to determine the source of the diplomat’s illness, the ministry said.
American diplomats at the consulate have complained of symptoms similar to those “following concussion or minor traumatic brain injury,” and may have been targets of attacks involving strange sounds, the State Department said Wednesday.

The symptoms — and the apparent causes — are similar to those that affected 24 American personnel in Cuba in 2016.
The State Department has not said how many of the more than 100 American employees at the consulate in Guangzhou have been evacuated so far. The ill diplomats complained of unusual sounds in their apartments, which are not far from the consulate.

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Those evacuated were being taken for testing to the University of Pennsylvania Center for Brain Injury and Repair, where a team of researchers had examined the cases from Cuba.
China had not been informed by the United States of the latest evacuations, a ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said Thursday.
“If the U.S. comes to us regarding this case again, we will investigate it seriously and keep close cooperation with the U.S.,” Ms. Hua said.
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She added that China took seriously its obligations under the Vienna Convention, an international accord that requires governments to protect the diplomats of other countries.

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The illnesses have the potential to further upset relations between China and the United States, already strained over trade disputes and North Korea.
Last year, the State Department pulled from Cuba a large number of diplomats who had developed vertigo, sleeplessness and cognitive impairment, saying the country was unable to protect them.
American officials have raised questions about whether Russia, or China, might be involved separately or in tandem in targeting the diplomats.
In an article in The Journal of the American Medical Association, brain researchers at the University of Pennsylvania described the sickness as a new neurological syndrome.
The odd nature of the illness could put the Chinese in a difficult predicament, even if they want to be diligent about trying to protect American and other foreign officials, diplomatic experts said.
The United States would no doubt press China to uncover the cause of the illnesses and to stop it, but it could prove difficult, or too embarrassing, for China to do so, the experts said.

One path would be for the United States to suggest that the two countries conduct a joint investigation, they added.
In a statement released on Wednesday night in Washington, the State Department’s spokeswoman, Heather Nauert, said: “As a result of the screening process so far, the department has sent a number of individuals for further evaluation and a comprehensive assessment of their symptoms and findings in the United States.”
The statement did not disclose how many complained of the illness associated with the mysterious sounds and sensations. A State Department statement this week listed the symptoms as “dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, fatigue, cognitive issues, visual problems, ear complaints and hearing loss, and difficulty sleeping.”
According to experts who studied the previous cases in Cuba, those afflicted so far in Cuba and Guangzhou — suffered injuries consistent with a concussion without ever having received a blow to the head.
One official said that “a sizable number” of people working in Guangzhou had requested examinations, which are being carried out in the consulate’s medical facilities. The officials cautioned that not everyone who experienced the sonic effects or showed symptoms would necessarily show signs of injuries.
The consulate is the largest by far in China, and is a major site for the issuing of visas for travel to the United States. Many of the American diplomats are in their first or second postings overseas, making the mysterious nature of the illnesses particularly unsettling.
In addition to the State Department’s medical team, which arrived on May 31, specialists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also arrived in China this week to join in the investigation in Guangzhou.

“The precise nature of the injuries suffered by the affected personnel, and whether a common cause exists for all cases, has not yet been established,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Tuesday, announcing the formation of a task force to examine the illnesses.
Mark A. Lenzi, a security engineering officer who was evacuated on Wednesday with his family, said he and his wife began having headaches and trouble sleeping at the end of last year. That corresponded roughly with the period the first diplomat who was evacuated in April reported experiencing the mysterious sounds and sensations.
Mr. Lenzi’s apartment was in the same tower of an upscale development called the Canton Place, a little more than a mile from the consulate.
Mr. Lenzi, in an interview before he left with his wife and their two children, complained that officials at the consulate and the American Embassy in Beijing had misled employees in Guangzhou about the nature of the threat. He said he was reprimanded — and denied access to the classified area of the consulate building — after he raised his concerns.
On Tuesday, the consulate held a town-hall meeting with the acting director general of the Foreign Service, William E. Todd, who also flew in. Among the topics listed for discussion were “medevacs,” or medical evacuations, for those with symptoms or in need of further examinations.

Jane Perlez reported from Beijing, and Steven Lee Myers from Shenzhen, China.
A version of this article appears in print on June 8, 2018, Section A, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Mystery Illness of U.S. Consulate Workers Prompts Chinese Offer of Help. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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[50000]

OMG, microwaved CECAs...must be dam smelly in the Himalayas now... if the wind blow wrong direction, China will kena reattacked by the smell

 

[JohnTan]

Can we shoot microwaves at oppies to chase them out of hougang, aljunied and sengkang? We want back our occupied territories.

 

[parrardee]

Can we shoot microwaves at oppies to chase them out of hougang, aljunied and sengkang? We want back our occupied territories.

Your jokes are damned lame. Please don't give up your day job ( if you have one ) to try to be a comedian.

 

[syed putra]

Chinese food so lame and tastelees, they turned microwave ovens into weapons,

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Can we shoot microwaves at oppies to chase them out of hougang, aljunied and sengkang? We want back our occupied territories.

Just arrest them like in operation cold store n problems solved

 

[A Singaporean]

Free barbecue steaks on Himalayas.

 

[syed putra]

If this is true, China using microwave to attack embassies, this is a act of aggression and violates UN weapons treaty.

'Havana syndrome' likely caused by directed microwaves - US report
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image captionThe US suspected "sonic attacks" had been launched against its embassy in Havana
Mystery illness suffered by US diplomats in Cuba was most likely caused by directed microwave radiation, a US government report has found.
The report by the National Academies of Sciences does not attribute blame for the directed energy waves.
But it said research into the effects of pulsed radio frequency energy was carried out by the Soviet Union more than 50 years ago.
The illnesses first affected people at the US embassy in Havana in 2016-17.
Staff and some of their relatives complained of symptoms ranging from dizziness, loss of balance, hearing loss, anxiety and something they described as "cognitive fog". It became known as "Havana syndrome".
The US accused Cuba of carrying out "sonic attacks", which it strongly denied, and the incident led to increased tension between the two nations.
A 2019 US academic study found "brain abnormalities" in the diplomats who had fallen ill, but Cuba dismissed the report.

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Canada also cut its embassy staff in Cuba after at least 14 of its citizens reported similar symptoms.
The latest study was carried out by a team of medical and scientific experts who examined the symptoms of about 40 government employees.
Many have suffered longstanding and debilitating effects, the report said.
"The committee felt that many of the distinctive and acute signs, symptoms and observations reported by (government) employees are consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy," the report reads.
"Studies published in the open literature more than a half-century ago and over the subsequent decades by Western and Soviet sources provide circumstantial support for this possible mechanism."

IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES
image captionStaff at the US consulate in Guangzhou, China, also reported strange symptoms
It noted there had been "significant research in Russia/USSR into the effects of pulsed, rather than continuous wave [radio frequency] exposures". It said that military personnel in "Eurasian communist countries" had been exposed to non-thermal radiation.
Cuba was not the only posting where US diplomats have reported the unusual symptoms.
In 2018, the US removed several officials from China after employees working in the southern city of Guangzhou reported "subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure". One US official was diagnosed with mild brain trauma.

 

[syed putra]

China has no regards to human suffering and fatalities wrt microwave usage and biological warfare.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Chicon land lied n were defeated by the ah nehs...

 

[borom]

This certainly goes against the spin of the flow of global talent as told by the highest paid .

 

[nightsafari]

China’s microwave pulse weapon defeats Indian troops at Himalayan border


An Indian fighter jet flies over a mountain range near Leh, the disputed border area between India and China. Picture: AFP

• By DIDI TANG
• THE TIMES
• 10:00AM NOVEMBER 17, 2020
• 111 COMMENTS

China’s military used microwave weapons to force Indian troops to retreat during a border stand-off in the Himalayas, a Beijing professor has claimed.
Its forces turned two strategic hilltops occupied by Indian soldiers “into a microwave oven”, Jin Canrong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing, told students during a lecture.
The Indian troops were forced back, allowing the positions to be retaken without an exchange of conventional fire, he said.

The People’s Liberation Army “beautifully” seized the ground without violating a no-live-shot rule governing the orders of engagement in the mountain stand-off.


A Chinese military show of strength in Tiananmen Square. Picture: Supplied

Microwave weapons focus high frequency electromagnetic pulses at targets, causing irritation and pain by heating up any human tissue in its way.
“We didn’t publicise it because we solved the problem beautifully,” Mr Jin said. “They [India] didn’t publicise it either because they lost so miserably.”
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The professor said that Chinese troops fired from the bottom of the hills and “turned the mountain tops into a microwave oven”.
“In 15 minutes, those occupying the hilltops all began to vomit,” he said. “They couldn’t stand up, so they fled. This was how we retook the ground.”
Indian army soldiers ride in a convoy along a highway leading towards Leh, bordering China. Picture: AFP
The two sides have been locked in a border dispute since April in the Ladakh region, which culminated in bloody hand-to-hand combat in the Galwan River valley in June. Twenty Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese were killed.
The microwave attack was said to have taken place on August 29.
The two countries have a longstanding dispute over their border, each accusing the other of encroaching on territory.
Despite rounds of high-level talks, the two armies have shown no sign of disengagement but are seeking to strengthen their positions, while sticking to the no-live-shot rule to avoid escalation and a repeat of the 1962 Sino-Indian War.
Chinese President Xi Jinping waves from a vehicle as he reviews the troops at a military parade in Beijing. Picture: Reuters
Microwave weapons attracted attention recently as America researched radio-frequency or electromagnetic pulse weapons that use high-energy radiation to attack targets.
This may be the first use of such weapons against hostile troops.
Mr Jin said in his lecture that India had surprised China by sending in a team of Tibetan soldiers, known for their mountaineering skills, to seize two critical hilltops on the southern bank of the Pangong Tso Lake, in eastern Ladakh on August 29.
“At the time, the western theatre command [of the People’s Liberation Army] was under huge pressure,” the scholar said. “These two hilltops are very important but we’d lost them.
“The central military commission was quite furious: ‘How could you be so careless as to let India seize the hilltops?’ So it ordered the ground be taken back but it also demanded that no single shot be fired.”

A convoy of Indian army trucks near Kashmir. Picture: Getty Images
Mr Jin said that it was almost impossible for the Chinese soldiers, who were mostly from the lowlands, to fight at an altitude of 5600m.
“Frankly speaking … their bodies won’t stand it,” he said. “Then they came up with the clever idea to use microwave weapons.”
Ten years ago America took a vehicle-mounted microwave weapon, called an Active Denial System, to Afghanistan. It was withdrawn, allegedly without being used in combat.
It is suspected that microwave weapons were used in an attack against US diplomats and their families in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, northwest of Hong Kong, in 2018.
They may also have been responsible for the symptoms described by American and Canadian diplomats posted to Cuba from 2016.
Most people exposed to microwave radiation report significant discomfort but no permanent ill-effects.
Some studies, however, suggest that long-term exposure might cause cancers.
The Times

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/wo...r/news-story/4683263ed8d35b735f37cd57715877a5

this microwave weapon has been available to the US forces for use since 2010. They started development in the early 2000s. They fielded it and then benched it.

It's unknown why this thing was benched by the US, but speculation is that it was unreliable due to minor changes in weather. It could either become too low powered and useless or too high powered and cause burns and violate international weapons agreements (such as for chemical weapons)

 

[nightsafari]

If this is true, China using microwave to attack embassies, this is a act of aggression and violates UN weapons treaty.

'Havana syndrome' likely caused by directed microwaves - US report
Published6 hours ago
Share

IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES
image captionThe US suspected "sonic attacks" had been launched against its embassy in Havana
Mystery illness suffered by US diplomats in Cuba was most likely caused by directed microwave radiation, a US government report has found.
The report by the National Academies of Sciences does not attribute blame for the directed energy waves.
But it said research into the effects of pulsed radio frequency energy was carried out by the Soviet Union more than 50 years ago.
The illnesses first affected people at the US embassy in Havana in 2016-17.
Staff and some of their relatives complained of symptoms ranging from dizziness, loss of balance, hearing loss, anxiety and something they described as "cognitive fog". It became known as "Havana syndrome".
The US accused Cuba of carrying out "sonic attacks", which it strongly denied, and the incident led to increased tension between the two nations.
A 2019 US academic study found "brain abnormalities" in the diplomats who had fallen ill, but Cuba dismissed the report.

• What is a covert sonic weapon?
• US expels two Cuban UN diplomats

Canada also cut its embassy staff in Cuba after at least 14 of its citizens reported similar symptoms.
The latest study was carried out by a team of medical and scientific experts who examined the symptoms of about 40 government employees.
Many have suffered longstanding and debilitating effects, the report said.
"The committee felt that many of the distinctive and acute signs, symptoms and observations reported by (government) employees are consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy," the report reads.
"Studies published in the open literature more than a half-century ago and over the subsequent decades by Western and Soviet sources provide circumstantial support for this possible mechanism."

IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES
image captionStaff at the US consulate in Guangzhou, China, also reported strange symptoms
It noted there had been "significant research in Russia/USSR into the effects of pulsed, rather than continuous wave [radio frequency] exposures". It said that military personnel in "Eurasian communist countries" had been exposed to non-thermal radiation.
Cuba was not the only posting where US diplomats have reported the unusual symptoms.
In 2018, the US removed several officials from China after employees working in the southern city of Guangzhou reported "subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure". One US official was diagnosed with mild brain trauma.

I'm not buying it. Microwave damage causes thermal damage. It could however be a different frequency on the EM spectrum.

Actually, I just read the whole article. The headline is misleading. In the text they mention non-thermal radiation and never mention microwaves. This writer need to go back and study science.