-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Sunday, May 13 6:50 AM SGT Senator: don't let China push US around WASHINGTON, May 12 (AFP) - A leading US senator vowed Saturday he would push the United States to get tough with China amid Beijing's refusal to release a US spy plane and continued detention of US citizens. "It's perfectly outrageous the way China is pushing us around, and that some way, somehow it's got to stop," Senator Jesse Helms told CNN in an interview. The North Carolina Republican is chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee and has not been shy about using his power to influence the foreign policy of both Republican and Democratic administrations. Helms said US President George W. Bush showed firmness in negotiations to recover the crew of the EP-3 spy plane, which made an emergency landing April 1 in China after a mid-air collision with an intercepting Chinese fighter jet. "But we've got to straighten up and fly right about who's in charge of the United States' foreign policy, and I don't want it to be Beijing," he said. Even though the 24-member crew was permitted to leave China after 11 days, the fate of the plane and its high-tech surveillance equipment remains a sticky issue, as the Chinese government considers US surveillance flights near China's coastline an infringement of its sovereignty. Beijing's detention of five people who are either US citizens or permanent residents have further strained fragile relations with Washington. Helms suggested the US government block China's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games in retaliation for Beijing's behavior. He also dismissed China's criticisms of US arms sales to Taiwan, saying he had never supported the idea the island is a renegade Chinese province as Beijing insists and the Bush administration agrees. "I admire the president of the United States. I supported him and continue to support him. But it's just not one China, as far as I'm concerned. Shouldn't be," Helms said. Bush, who came to office promising to take a tough line with China, has repeatedly said he will work with Beijing where US and Chinese interests coincide and remains in favor of trade with the communist giant. However, the president has also said he would do whatever it takes to defend Taiwan against an invasion from the mainland, although the administration insists this is not a change from the policy of deliberate ambiguity over US intentions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- *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
