Beijing, Apr 25, 2001 ---
China on Wednesday kept up its angry response to new U.S. weapons
sales to Taiwan, with the hawkish military warning the weapons build-up
could spell disaster for the island and the Asian region.
"The
Taiwan authorities are now playing a very dangerous game," warned
an editorial in the People's Liberation Army Daily, the armed forces'
mouthpiece."
"Arms purchases can only make the Taiwan Straits situation more
turbulent, increase the threat to regional peace and stability, and
backfire."
"Arm
purchases will not only be unable to genuinely guarantee Taiwan's
security, it may also bring disaster to the people of Taiwan."
China regards Taiwan as a renegade province that must be brought
back under its rule, by force if necessary, even though the island
has been separated from the mainland since the end of a civil war
almost 52 years ago.
Despite strong editorials in several leading newspapers, there were
signs the Chinese leadership may be trying not to whip up incendiary
nationalist sentiment which has already been agitated by the Sino-U.S.
spy plane crisis.
Most state-controlled media carried straight reports on the arms
sale and the foreign ministry's condemnation, while state television
was also restrained.
Although the U.S. government rebuffed Taiwanese requests for Arleigh
Burke class destroyers mounted with state-of-the-art Aegis radar -
the item that had worried China the most - the media said any weapons
sales were unacceptable.
"The
more arms the Taiwan authorities import, the bolder the separatists
on the island will become," the PLA paper said. "But if
conflict breaks out with the mainland, the ones who will experience
the misery of war will necessary be the Taiwan people."
The editorial concluded by promising never to permit a formal separation
of Taiwan from the mainland.
"If
anyone thinks that with mere weapons he can decide the fate of a nation,
we will tell him that no one can stand in the way of the 1.2 billion
Chinese people, and the PLA," the editorial said.
China's armed forces, which have "the sacred mission of safeguarding
China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, will not permit one
inch of land to be split from China," it concluded.
The English-language China Daily focused on the U.S. role, saying
the "inflammatory decision" to sell arms to Taiwan "could
destroy the premise for Sino-U.S. relations."
It suggested the arms sale could turn the clock back to the time
before 1979, when the United States and China established diplomatic
relations and Washington terminated a mutual security pact with Taiwan.
"Selling more advance weapons to the island is tantamount to
restoring the military alliance between Taiwan and the United States,"
it said.
The editorial acknowledged the United States was holding strong cards
in the form of China's wish to join the World Trade Organization and
Beijing's ambition to host the 2008 Olympics, but said threats would
only trigger a strong reaction from the Chinese people.
"The parties involved should not throw a tantrum too soon and
make blackmailing utterances in an imperious tone," it said.
The editorial appeared to blame the worsening of the atmosphere in
bilateral relations on the attitudes of members of the new U.S. administration
of President George W. Bush.
"We can smell the McCarthy style of the provocative stance the
Bush administration and some hawkish U.S. politicians have taken in
the past weeks," it said, referring to Joseph McCarthy, a U.S.
senator notorious for his communist witch hunts in the early 1950s.
世界各國怕中共的原因,在於:
看看此則新聞。澳洲總理諒解美國的強硬聲明,希望美國、中共各自克制。
Australian
Prime Minister calls for calm over Taiwan
Australia's Prime Minister John Howard has called for calm, in response
to comments by US President George W-Bush that the United States would
come to the defence of Taiwan, in the event of a Chinese invasion.
Mr Bush made the comments a day after announcing a major arms deal
with Taiwan.
Mr Bush later said his comments should not be seen as an endorsement
of independence for Taiwan, and said he supports the one China Policy.
Mr Howard has called for restraint.
to
see any wider tension escalate between the United States and China,
so from our point of view, we would like calm and restraint on all
sides.
結果,澳洲總理受到中共警告,終於爆發澳洲循國際公約通過台灣海峽時被中共驅離,到現在澳洲政府一直保持低調,而中共之打壓脅迫台灣,不理會國際慣例,把台灣海峽劃入其領海,台灣處境的確艱苦,若不思自保,而自廢武功,則只有待斃。