中共說一套做一套，可惡到了極點，在其所控制的中國網路信息中心
China Internet Information Center，就批評日本政府的大中國擴張論，認為日本人批判中國的擴軍計劃，是干涉他國內政，而對台佈署攻擊的Ｍ族飛彈，更明確的指責日本政府沒資格談論此事，因為凡是中國與台灣的關係，純為中國的家務事，中國要如此對付台灣，則是外國人不可碰觸的問題。
Japan's
newly released Defense White Paper is warning of the "China threat"
again in an attempt to justify its own military expansion, the Liberation
Army Daily said in three separate articles on the issue recently.
On July 6, Japan's parliament, the Diet, passed the 2001 Defense
White Paper. While bearing similar content to previous documents,
the new paper carries exaggerations of the military threat posed by
China.
Japan's
1999 Defense White Paper devoted considerable space to the development
of China's military strength. It expressed its concern over China's
warships that it said had appeared in the waters around the island
of Diaoyu.
In
contrast, the 2001 paper harped on about the so-called "China
threat" by exaggerating China's military strength.
The paper said a 17-per cent jump in military spending by China goes
"beyond the needs of defense," despite the fact that China's
military spending is only 30 percent of Japan's and the increase is
mainly aimed at paying rises for the country's 2.5 million servicemen.
The paper even wrongly claimed that China has targeted its missiles
at Asian countries including Japan.
Japan
made the claims because it wants to distract people's attention and
provide excuses for its help in the development of the Theatre Missile
Defense (TMD) system, the newspaper pointed out. Its actions would
cast a shadow over Sino-Japan relations, it commented.
Japan's Defense Agency went further in tarnishing China's image by
claiming that China boasts 100 medium-range ballistic missiles whose
range covers the whole of Asia including Japan. It even said that
China had accelerated the deployment of short-range ballistic missiles
which targeted Taiwan.
The motive behind Japan's renewed cries about the "China threat"
is clear: On the one hand, Japan is attempting to mislead the world
into believing that China is the source of instability in Asia. Its
TMD system jointly developed by Japan and the United States is only
a countermeasure against "threats from China."
On the other hand, it wants to shift people's attention from Japan's
military expansion which has invited condemnation from Asian countries.
Instead of investigating its past wrongdoings inflicted on Asian
people during World War II, Japan kept expanding its military might
including upgrading the quality of its Self Defense Forces (SDF),
developing sophisticated high-tech weaponry and reinventing its SDF
into a national defense force.
Currently Japan has the world's second largest military budget for
its ground, air and maritime forces.
Its maritime and air defense spending, in particular, has expanded
rapidly.
Japanese Defense Chief Tsutomu Kawara announced last May that the
SDF will introduce personnel-transport aircraft with longer ranges
to its fleet so it can be used in evacuations and peacekeeping operations
abroad.
The Defense Agency is considering adding three or more transport
aircraft, each capable of carrying 200 people and flying 10,000 kilometers
without the need for refueling.
Japan's Maritime SDF has also been armed with four guided missile
destroyers, which are amongst the best in the world.
According
to the newspaper, by the year of 2010, the Maritime SDF will possess
30 large destroyers with a tonnage of over 4,000 and 14 jumbo conventional
submarines with a tonnage of 2,700.
Before
2015 two aircraft carriers with a tonnage of 40,000 each will be built,
which are able to accommodate E-2C early warning planes and fighters.
Furthermore,
Japan is building up its air force to have the capability for long-range
offensives. It has some 40 F-2 fighters. By the year 2010, the number
will be increased to 140, along with 210 F-15 planes, four S-767 early
warning planes and dozens of mid-air refueling tankers.
The article questioned Japan's development of its large-scale military
strength and said it does not serve its self-defense purposes. Japan
aims to play a bigger military role in global affairs.
Japan's military co-operation with the United States to develop TMD
system is a case in point.
To secure a bigger say in global affairs and remove the blockades
on its road to military expansion, Japan has set a target of amending
its pacifist Constitution and restoring its right of collective self
defense, which is denied by its 1947 constitution.
Originally, Japan planned to amend its constitution in 10 years,
but it is now poised to implement this plan ahead of time, most likely
within five years.
Predictably, to serve its own military ambitions, Japan will look
for more excuses, the newspaper said.
China, as an important country in the world, has been implementing
an active defense strategy. It has been moderately developing its
military might. Its military operations are conducted in line with
international law.
As
for China's military deployment targeting Taiwan, this is a domestic
matter, the newspaper said. It aims to target Taiwan's pro-independence
forces. Japan is not in a position to comment on China's internal
affairs.
The article said Japan and China both have obligations to promote
mutual development and safeguard world peace.
Sound Sino-Japanese ties are not only in the fundamental interest
of the two countries, but also conducive to world peace and development.
Japan's military expansion under the cover-up of the "China
threat" theory will do nothing but harm Japan and Asia's future
development, the newspaper warned.
(China Daily 07/18/2001)
Officials,
scholars warn about tactics used by Beijing
Publish Date: 07/20/2001
Story Type: National Affairs;
Byline: Myra Lu
ROC officials and scholars engaged in image building on two separate
occasions this month as they warned Chinese people in the international
community about Beijing's attempts to exploit public sentiment in
Taiwan. They did so by informing overseas Chinese communities about
mainland China's political tactics aimed at influencing Taiwan's democracy.
Chang Fu-mei, minister of the Cabinet's Overseas Chinese Affairs
Commission, spoke at a meeting of overseas Chinese in Japan July 14.
She stressed that the ROC is willing to discuss the so-called "one
China" issue, but does not accept the PRC's unilateral definition
of the term to mean the communist-controlled mainland.
The event was organized to provide an alternative viewpoint to a
separate conference that touted Chinese unification to overseas Chinese
communities. This conference also took place in Japan.
Chang said that the pro-unification conference was instigated by Beijing
and was designed to polarize the cross-strait issue into one of independence
vs. unification. "Their goal," the OCAC minister said, "is
to create the false image that all Chinese people around the world
opt for a union between Taiwan and the mainland." "But the
main issue between the two sides involves the differences in their
political systems, rather than a simple dichotomy of unification or
independence," Chang explained.
An official with the Mainland Affairs Council pointed out during
the meeting that no single political party has the right to chart
the future of Taiwan's people because the island is a full-fledged
democracy. "It is an undeniable fact that neither side of the
Taiwan Strait belongs to the other. The mainland expresses a rather
narrow view when it equates Taiwan's will to decide its own future
with support for independence," the official said.
In fact, the island's growing democracy has opened the door to a massive
wave of discussion on cross-strait development. In Taiwan, each citizen
is entitled to his own views, and his stance on the issue deserves
respect. Beijing, however, seems incapable of understanding the workings
of a free society, according to a group of local scholars.
At a recent seminar held in Taipei, political analysts expounded on
the effect Taiwan's democratization has had on cross-strait relations.
Hosted by the Taiwan Research Institute, a local think tank, the forum
revealed a popular view shared by officials that while the government
pursues a more open policy toward the mainland, the public should
likewise exercise its own judgement concerning what information it
chooses to believe.
It has been pointed out that, as Taiwan's mainland policies have
become more flexible, the island has witnessed an outflow of capital
to the mainland. Businesspeople in search of higher profits have urged
the government to relax its trade policy even further, since mainland-bound
investment involving sensitive high-technology research is still forbidden.
Experts have also made note of the increasing number of politicians
from the opposition camp paying frequent visits to the mainland, meeting
with high-ranking communist officials. The Kuomintang, which lost
its mandate to the Democratic Progressive Party in the 2000 presidential
election, appears particularly eager to open a dialogue with Beijing,
as the party's higher-ups were barred from traveling to the other
side while they were still in power. Now that they are the opposition,
however, Beijing has opened the doors in a thinly veiled united front
tactic aimed at sowing dissent on the island.
Byron Weng, a professor of public administration at National Chi Nan
University, said that under such circumstances, Beijing could use
its huge market and the vast amounts of New Taiwan dollars tied up
in mainland investments as leverage to force through its political
goals by luring the island's public into accepting a lower international
status for themselves.
Weng added that people should be wary of the mainland's "capitalist"
tactic--using businesspeople to support pro-unification politicians
or political parties in Taiwan.
Joseph Wu, a researcher at National Chengchi University, noted that
Taiwan's democratization has served to push the island's disparate
political parties toward finding some common ground on mainland policy.
As an example Wu cited the same claim, made by politicians across
the political spectrum, that Taiwan's people hold the key to their
own future.
Because of its insistence on ignoring Taiwan's democracy, the mainland
has made faulty political mover the past year. These include the opening
of direct shipping and trade links between Taiwan's offshore islands
and the mainland's southeastern coast, allowing banks to set up branch
offices in the mainland, and creating postings in Taiwan for reporters
from across the strait.
Ironically, the relaxation of policies meant to safeguard national
security for the sake of making political goodwill gestures, coupled
with a downturn in the local and global economies, have contributed
to a diminished confidence in Taiwan's society and a public opinion
that is slightly more inclined to favor unification. Lin thus predicted
that the mainland would seek to interfere in the island's politics
by playing on changes in public views, and he cautioned against heightened
cross-strait tension.
Echoing a similar perspective, Wu said it would be a debasement
of Taiwan's democracy if the pro-unification groups on the island
try to unite with Beijing in harassing Taipei.
