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U.S. official talks tough on crew detention
By Ben Barber
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A senior American official said yesterday the United States will not
forgive or forget China´s holding 24 crew members of a downed surveillance
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The blunt statement by the new assistant secretary of state for East
Asia, James A. Kelly, was made to Congress as a U.S. team arrived in Hainan,
China, to inspect the downed plane.
"We´re not going to conduct business as usual after our servicemen and
women were detained for 11 days in China," said Mr. Kelly, who was confirmed
earlier yesterday by the Senate.
"Beijing needs to understand that," he told the Senate Foreign Relations
subcommitee on East Asia yesterday.
Mr. Kelly delivered the first major speech on China by a Bush
administration official since the Hainan incident. The new administration has
said it is reviewing past policies toward China and other important issues.
While Mr. Kelly, a former Navy officer, held out offers to "work with
the current leaders and with the next generation of leaders in China," he was
offering tough love at best.
"We will hold China to its bilateral and international commitments," he
said. "We will use all available policy tools to persuade it to move in more
constructive directions."
Saying he would be "frank about our differences," Mr. Kelly listed
them: Taiwan, human rights, freedom of faith, arms sales and proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction.
U.S.-Chinese relations have plunged to a low point over the detention
of the U.S. air crew and President Bush´s approval last week of the largest
arms sale to Taiwan in a decade.
David Shambaugh of George Washington University told the congressional
panel that China sees U.S. surveillance flights off its coast -- such as the
flight that was involved in an April 1 collision with a Chinese fighter -- as
a sign of "hostile intent."
The Chinese are also concerned about stepped up U.S. arms sales to
Taiwan, the suspension of U.S.-China military exchanges, U.S. condemnation of
China for human rights abuses, the downgrading of China´s importance while
ties to Japan are strengthened and possible opposition to its hosting the
2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Mr. Shambaugh said.
The statement delivered yesterday by Mr. Kelly did not duck any of the
sensitive issues which have troubled U.S.-China relations.
He said "we will continue to focus on Tibet" and seek "an end to
religious restrictions against Tibetan Buddhists."
He also said "we have not been satisfied" at China´s failure to grant
consular access to an American University researcher held by China for
several weeks, an issue raised at yesterday´s panel hearing by Sen. George F.
Allen, Virginia Republican.
Mr. Kelly said Mr. Bush intends to visit China in the fall when he will
attend the meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in
Shanghai, a visit he described as representing the United States´ commitment
to China´s economic reforms.
Mr. Kelly said that while the United States is running an $80 billion
deficit in its trade with China, U.S. firms sold $16 billion worth of goods
to the Asian country in 2000, an 18 percent increase over the previous year.
"China is a kind of friend. Not a kind of enemy. But not an ally," said
Mr. Kelly.
On Hainan island, technicians from Lockheed Martin, the main contractor
for the EP-3E surveillance plane, arrived yesterday at Haikou, the capital,
the Pentagon said.
They are to travel today to the military airfield where the plane is
located, spokesman Navy Lt. Cmdr. Terry Sutherland said in Washington.
Mr. Kelly said the United States would not pay reparations to China for
the crash of its fighter, which collided with the American EP-3E airplane.
However, the United States is willing to pay the costs of moving its own
damaged plane onto a barge to ship it back home.
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