软件外包小项目:US should stop Taipei arms sales

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US should stop Taipei arms sales

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2011-5-14 14:34

Taiwan renews call for U.S. F-16 sale


Ma Ying-jeou on May 12 renewed on the U.S. to sell F-16 fighter jets to the island, saying he needed leverage as he pursues reconciliation with Beijing.


Ma said he was committed to seeking weapons from the U.S. despite belt-tightening by his ‘administration’, which has raised defense spending at a slower pace than planned since the global economic downturn.


In an address to a U.S. think tank, Ma pledged to move forward with his policy of improving relations with Beijing, saying the island has benefited from his outreach to the mainland since taking office in 2008.


"We continue to urge the U.S. to provide Taiwan with necessary defensive weaponry such as F-16s and diesel-powered submarines," he told the Center for Strategic and International Studies by video-link from Taipei.


The U.S. last year approved $6.4 billion in weapons for Taiwan, including Patriot missiles and Black Hawk helicopters. But the package did not include fighter jets, which Taiwan believes are necessary to close the gap as Beijing rapidly boosts its military budget.

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China top general to tell US: stop Taipei arms sales


People's Liberation Army chief of the general staff General Chen Bingde will tell his US counterparts to stop selling arms to Taiwan and end surveillance activities off China's shores during his visit to the US next week, a defence official said yesterday.


Chen, who arrives Sunday for the week-long trip, will hold talks with senior US officials, including Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman o Admiral Mike Mullen, Defence Secretary Dr Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the president's national security adviser, Tom Donilon. He will also visit US defence bases and give a speech on military relations between the two countries.



National Defence Foreign Affairs Office director Qian Lihua was quoted by Xinhua on Wednesday as saying that US arms sales to Taiwan were the foremost obstacle to developing military ties between Beijing and Washington.


Military links between the two countries stopped after the Pentagon's US$6.4 billion arms deal with Taiwan in January last year and only resumed following President Hu Jintao's US visit in January.


"If the US continues to sell weapons to Taiwan, we will definitely respond to the action," Qian said.


Chen's US visit, the first in seven years by the PLA's chief of the general staff, follows Washington's latest Strategic and Economic Dialogue, which includes military personnel for the first time.


The Defence Ministry said that military surveillance operations by the US undermined China's security and were a potential source of real conflicts between the two countries.


The US will also be pressed to abolish "discriminatory" laws which limit bilateral military exchanges and technology exports to China.


"China hopes the US will respect China's reasonable concern on the three issues and adopt feasible measures to resolve them," Qian said.




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