Beijing (DAILY PLANET) — Western diplomats were shocked when photographic proof emerged of the secret Chinese weather manipulation program.
As part of the new Cold War, Chinese officials have circumvented the technological gap by ordering their population of one billion to line the Great Wall and manipulate global weather patterns by waving fans in unison and generating powerful winds.
"It’s staggering that they could think they could get away with something like this," said Wink Blinkley of the State Department. "This is a clear act of hostility, and we have strongly protested this action of the Chinese government. Next week we will be introducing a U.N. Security Council resolution dealing with this alarming turn of events."
Climate experts said that the Chinese weather manipulation effort could harm crops in various countries–particularly China’s competitors in population-heavy Southeast Asia–disrupting food supplies and economies.
"It could go even further than that," said author Michael Crichton. "This may well be responsible for the phenomenon of global warming. The Chinese may have been playing the West for suckers by redirecting warm air currents, trying to hobble our own economies by forcing us to take draconian steps in dealing with a phenomenon that has been a hoax all along, giving them time to catch up to the West in economic development."
Tensions between Washington and Beijing have spiked since the photographic evidence of the Chinese program emerged. Speaking on background, officials in the White House compared its potential significance to that of the Cuban Missle Crisis, which occurred in the 1960s when a U.S. spy plane provided photographic evidence that the Soviet Union was basing strategic missles in Cuba.
"We sincerely hope that ‘Operation Red Fan’ will not lead to that kind of confrontation between superpowers," said one official.
Developments in technology since the 1960s played a role in uncovering the secret Chinese program. Evidence of Operation Red Fan (which in Mandarin can also mean "Operation Hot Wind") was not collected by a spy plane but by a tourist with a cell phone camera.
"I can’t give any details on precisely how this photo arrived in our hands," said Blinkley, "but let’s just say that the photo has touched off a crisis that is Cingular in the history of Sino-American relations."
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