Tsing Shi Tao

General Tsing Shi Tao is a Chinese Class AAA General serving in the People's Liberation Army during the War against the GLA.

Background
The 50 year old General Tsing gets what he wants, at any cost. Impatient to a fault, General Tsing relies heavily on nuclear technology on the battlefield. Unfortunately, there have been several terrible accidents. While General Tsing was the responsible officer during the Mudanjiang Disaster of 2007, his considerable talents saved his career. General Tsing believes such trials and errors are part of the development process.

His divisions are beginning to see the results of his convictions, as a prototype of an advanced nuclear power plant has produced better results. Programs to develop tactical nukes and to promote stability in radioactive isotopes are producing better safety records, which will be well-received by his troops.

General Tsing Shi Tao is stationed at Base Ox, Chengdu, and his Combat Number is 0000-000000-1.

Units

 * All infantry, except Hacker, cost more.
 * Helix and MiG cost more.
 * Battlemaster and Overlord comes with uranium shells and nuclear tanks upgrades for free.
 * Isotope stability reduces friendly fire damage from radiation.
 * Nuke cannon available from the start.
 * MiG can be upgraded to Tactical Nuke MiG (fires tactical nuclear missiles).
 * Helix drops a nuclear bomb instead of a napalm bomb.

Buildings

 * Advanced nuclear reactor instead of Nuclear reactor (more power)
 * Nuclear missile silo is 10% cheaper

General's powers

 * Carpet bomber drops tactical nukes
 * Emergency Repair level 1 available earlier

Trivia

 * His name is a bad spelling of the Chinese term "Qing Shi Tou" (青石头), meaning "green stones". Uranium is usually depicted in fiction as green, rocky formations.
 * Tsing Tao also shares his first and last names with Tsingtao beer, a popular Chinese beer that is also widely exported around the world.
 * When you face him in the General's Challenge, he CAN NOT rebuild any destroyed structures, and all of his nuclear missiles will fire on PREDETERMINED areas; his first will hit to the left, near the supply dock (not the furthest down-left).
 * If you try to capture the Missile Silos before their launch, they will explode as if they were Booby Trapped, use this to your advantage when playing China
 * General Tao carries an IMI Uzi in his victory portrait, a slightly odd choice for a Chinese General as it is an Israeli-made weapon not used by the Chinese military.
 * General Tao is wearing an outfit meant for a Marshall of The Peoples' Republic of China because of the blue millitary uniform. He is likely of that rank. If that's true he would outrank every Chinese general except General Leang. Tao and Leang would be of the same rank.
 * Despite already having access to much nuclear technology and weaponry, Tao was meant to have access to even more nuclear-based arsenal including Nuclear Hackers (capable of setting up nuclear suitcase bombs), Nuclear Red Guard (with Radiation Rockets), Nuclear Tank Hunters, a Tactical Nuclear Strike (airdropped nuclear bomb) General's Power and further upgrades for Uranium Shells (Weapons Grade Uranium Shells) and Nuclear Tanks (Fusion Reactors) but there were never implemented or cut. Mods restore most of these units.
 * Unlike other generals, he has no limitations, save for the loss of Firestorm from MiGs.
 * He had been spotted in the leaked storyboard videos of the Generals 2 campaign.