China: U.S. arms sales to Taiwan hurt national security

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U.S. arms sales to Taiwan hurt China's national security, its foreign minister said, escalating the rhetoric in a dispute threatening to deepen rifts between the world's biggest and third-biggest economies.

Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi was the latest and most senior official to denounce the arms sale plan Washington announced on Friday.

The Obama administration has defended the package worth about $6.4 billion as necessary to boost regional security.

Yang, traveling in Cyprus, said China and the United States had held many discussions about the arms sales, but Washington had ignored Beijing's demand they be stopped, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.

The United States should "truly respect China's core interests and major concerns, and immediately rescind the mistaken decision ... in order to avoid damaging broader China-U.S. relations," Yang said.

He said the U.S. move had "damaged China's national security and great task of reunification (with Taiwan)."

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60T07W20100131



China should sell the dollar on monday as a warning to Washington.:)
 
Quote from http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-01/30/c_13157364.htm :



The sale is a wrong decision, which not only undermines China's national security interests and her national unification cause, but also once again hurts the national feelings of the Chinese people

Moreover, it also will cause serious damage to the overall cooperation and relationship between China and the United States.

Frankly speaking, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan have become a chronic disease that has been disturbing China-U.S. ties for a long period of time.

In the August 17 Communique jointly issued by China and the United States in 1982, the U.S. said clearly it intended to gradually reduce the sale of arms to Taiwan both in quality and quantity, leading to a final termination of such sales.

Although those words are crystal clear, this time the U.S. once again stubbornly made a wrong decision to plan a new arms sale to Taiwan, seriously violating the principles of three Sino-U.S. joint communiques, especially those of the August 17 Communique.
Such an act violently interferes in China's internal affairs, seriously undermines China's national security and her national unification cause, and thus inevitably casts a shadow on China-U.S. relations.
The Taiwan issue is closely related to China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, her core national interests, and the national feelings of the 1.3 billion Chinese people.
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With efforts made by compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, recent years have witnessed more frequent cross-Strait dialogues and exchanges, and closer cross-Strait economic and trade relations.
The cross-Strait relationship has started to walk on a path of positive interaction.
However, while the entire picture of the cross-Strait relations became brighter, the U.S. made a new decision on an arms sale to Taiwan.
The decision not only runs counter to the mainstream will of pursuing development and cooperation among the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also exposes the U.S. usage of double standards and hypocrisy on major issues related to China's core interests.

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The age of our times needs healthy, stable and developing China-U.S. ties.
Defying such a historic trend and making such a wrong decision that undermines China's core interests and the overall situation of China-U.S. cooperation, can't be viewed as a wise action by any responsible government, no matter if it was influenced by residue of the Cold War mentality or the pressure of certain special interests.
China recently has made several solemn representations to the American government on the arms sale issue, asking the U.S. to fully assess the serious damage caused by the sale and to take China's concerns seriously and stop the transaction.
Otherwise, the sale will cause seriously negative effects on China-U.S. exchanges and cooperation in important areas, and ultimately will lead to consequences that neither side wishes to see.
If the U.S. continues to ignore the solemn position made by China and is determined to make the wrong decision to sell arms to Taiwan, it ought to take all the responsibilities for any serious consequence caused by such a decision .

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I thaught that the plan of expanding the exports of the Us was more related to peacefull stuffs, like freedom of speech, entertainment and sport's gears... enrobbed in a new fair Intellectual proprety agreement... I was dreaming...

I see too that only one Us company tried publicly to stand for one of his core principle, freedom of speech... but all the others industries followed blindly the dollars. Now even Boeing must be asking if they will still sell planes ( which one the peacefull or not ? ) ...

Anyway, now I am really curious to read the reaction of the "planners"... the guys that thaught they were masters of the time... How all the different agendas are shaken by hardcore realities. Why all mens have firstly to burn themselfves on the fire before stopping of wanting to touch it ?
 
From this link http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35167044/ns/world_news-washington_post/page/2/

"David Finkelstein, a former U.S. Army officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency who now runs the China program at the Center for Naval Analyses, said the new tone underscores a shift in China. "On the external front," he said, "we will likely see a China that is more willing than in the past to proactively shape the external environment and international order rather than passively react to it." "

My question to this gentleman is quite simple... What happen when a big number of entities want to shape proactively and differently the same environment ?
 
this is all bullshit, i dont understand why taiwen and us continue to put themselves through this. Do they really think a few blackhawk chopper and missiles is going to stop china from blowing taiwan to kingdom kong within a day if a real war breaks out between the two?

china doesnt want taiwan back despite what it says, it just wants taiwan to shut the fuck up and stop embarrassing china. but no they had to buy some blackhawk choppers to "defend" the country against china.

Andrew Yang, Deputy Minister of Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence, described the sale as involving defensive weapons that could help prevent cross-Strait hostilities.

"This is very much about enhancing Taiwan's self-defence to fend off any attack from Beijing. Beijing will think twice. That's why they are opposing U.S. arms sales," he told Reuters
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wtf, if taiwan have this delusional idiot as the defense minister, then they are really fucked.
 
yep, I clearly don't know anything about the past history of the area. However I know that HK isn't anymore part of the UK and it's going well I think...

So Hong Kong can stay free without weapons while at the same time Taiwan is arming itself... strange at least. :confused:
 
All these lunatics with high tech weapons... perhaps world war 3 would last a month or so. At most half a year it should be over.
 
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All these lunatics with high tech weapons... perhaps world war 3 would last a month or so. At most half a year it should be over.
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this kind of comments were really common before WW1...
 
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