Dec.27,2000 --- To: George W. Bush, Colin Powell

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Dear　Mr. George W. Bush,
　　　Mr. General Colin Powell,

We give our foundation’s best wishes for you and your partnership in New Year’s hope. At first, we send Taiwanese people’s viewpoints over relationship of Washington-Taipei-Beijing.

China has made its strongest commitment to date not to sell nuclear missile technology abroad, winning an immediate promise from Washington to forgo possibly bruising sanctions and to boost commercial space cooperation.

The arrangement hopes to curb missile proliferation, head off punitive legislation aimed at China in the U.S. Congress and put to rest a long contentious issue between Washington and Beijing.

Minutes after China made its pledge late Tuesday in Beijing, the State Department praised the move as helping "achieve our common objective of preventing the spread of ballistic missiles that threaten regional and international security."

Both sides reap immediate benefits. China wins a reprieve from U.S. sanctions against Chinese companies suspected of transferring dangerous missile technology.

It also gains a promise from Washington to begin processing licenses for commercial space cooperation, including the launching of U.S. satellites by China.

For its part, the United States is freed from imposing sanctions that could undermine fragile ties with Beijing and wins assurances that Pakistan, Iran and North Korea won’t be benefiting from any new Chinese missile technology.

“This is China's clearest and most complete statement on missile proliferation,” said Phillip Saunders, a China proliferation expert at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. “If there are loopholes, it’s not evident.”

China also hopes the step will head off planned legislation in Congress requiring the U.S. president to report on Chinese missile technology transfers and potentially level sanctions for violations.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi, in remarks carried by China's Xinhua News Agency, said Clinton administration officials have opposed the legislation and will recommend the same position to the next president.

China’s pledge, made in comments by Sun, moved it closer to full compliance with the Missile Technology Control Regime - a 13-year-old agreement signed by 32 countries that restricts transfers of missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons, along with their components.

Beijing agreed two years ago not to transfer whole missile systems - a key tenet of the missile regime - but has taken a more ambiguous approach to components and dual-use technology that could end up in weapons systems.

Although Sun did not mention specific countries, Washington has suspected China of aiding the missile programs of Pakistan, Iran and North Korea since the early 1990s and has in the past imposed sanctions on Chinese companies.

Evidence has grown about Beijing’s transfers of missile technology. Intelligence reports over the past two years have sketched continuing Chinese assistance to Pakistan since the sale of nuclear-capable M-11 missiles in the early 1990s. A CIA report in August also found that Chinese firms sent missile-related items, raw materials and other assistance to Iran, North Korea and Libya.

Experts say China has progressively committed to wider and more specific controls following years of nudging by the Clinton administration. After Pakistan and India traded nuclear test explosions in 1998, Beijing showed renewed interest in controlling the spread of missiles.

Pakistan responded in similar form on Wednesday, reiterating denials that it bought missile technology in defiance of international agreements. Pakistan possesses a minimum nuclear deterrence that needs neither American nor Chinese technology to sustain it, a Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

The communist authorities have threatened to use of force against Taiwan if it declares independence. The United States has consistently adopted a “balance of power” principle in formulating its policies on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.

But, it is endangering this principle after powerful economic system on Beijing that relating with Taiwan in the absence of formal diplomatic ties and requires.

Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said Beijing tested a DF-31 missile over its territory on Nov. 4. He would not reveal details such as how far the missile flew. The test was first reported in Tuesday’s editions of The Washington Times.

“The test was pretty much as expected in terms of timing and in terms of results,” Bacon said. There was no indication that Shelton was advised of the firing by mainland Chinese officials. The Times also reported that mainland China is preparing another missile test in a few weeks.

“You can read about the DF-31 in a number of public reports that are put out by the Central Intelligence Agency, by the Defense Department and other agencies. So we are watching it,” he said.

Hundreds of shorter-range ballistic and cruise missiles, some with nuclear warheads, have purchased technologies from the Unites states, Russia, Israel Europe and Japan.

Please “grave concern” any effort by Beijing to threat Taiwan with military force.

In fact, Taiwan will become the best front defense in Pacific-Asia region over Beijing military threat. ROC-U.S. military exchanges should get closer in touch with Washington after the Bush administration is inaugurated.