-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Admiral Puts Beijing on Notice NewsMax.com Thursday, March 15, 2001 America has notified Communist China that if it doesn't want Taiwan to get United States anti-missile systems it shouldn't aim its missiles at the island. And if Beijing continues to add strike missiles along its coastline near Taiwan, it was told in no uncertain terms Thursday, it can expect Washington to boost the island's defenses with high-tech weapons. That message from the Bush-Cheney administration was delivered in person by the commander of U.S. Pacific forces, Adm. Dennis C. Blair. It came only weeks before President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are to decide whether to beef up the defenses of the tiny island that has been threatened by attack and invasion from the mainland Chinese. And it is a marked departure from the much softer policy pursued toward China by the Democratic administration of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Ever since the Chinese civil war, when the non-Communists split from the Communists and in 1949 set up their own government on the island, the mainlanders have regarded Taiwan as a breakaway territory they are determined to "reunify," with military force if necessary. By U.S. law, Washington is committed to supplying the little democracy with weapons needed to defend itself. According to the Associated Press reporting from Beijing: Two days into his six-day visit to China, his third visit in two years, Blair told a press briefing that "there will be a point at which that missile buildup will threaten the sufficient defense of Taiwan and which it is the United States' policy to maintain. "It's important that the Chinese make the connection between what they deploy on their side of the Taiwan Strait and the types of technologies that the United States might make available to Taiwan to provide for its sufficient defense." China is vehemently opposed to Taiwan receiving from the United States the technology for a theater missile defense. And it extends that argument to include hostility toward Bush's proposed National Missile Defense system to protect the United States from attack by rogue states, which Beijing contends will start a new arms race and undermine China's nuclear deterrent. The Chinese army's chief of general staff, Fu Quanyou, who met with Blair on Wednesday, urged the Bush-Cheney administration "to stop arms sales to Taiwan immediately so as to avoid damaging Sino-U.S. relations," according to the official Xinhua News Agency. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
