Dear
Miss Condoleezza Rice,
Seoul, May 4 ---
North Korea’s leader has pledged
he will keep past promises to Washington and Seoul to show that he wants
good relations, but Kim Jong Il said he cannot afford to stop
selling missiles, according to European officials who met him this week.
Kim said his missile sales to
other countries are “part of trade. If he finds people who want to buy
it, he will sell it,” said Javier Solana, chief of foreign policy and
security affairs for the European Union.
North Korean has threatened to
pull out of a 1994 deal with the US that froze its nuclear program, saying
Washington was not living up to its end of the bargain and demanding
compensation.
North Korea agreed in 1994 to shut
down a Soviet-era graphite moderated reactor, which Washington had
suspected was developing weapons, in exchange for two light-water reactors
(LWR) to be built by a US led international consortium.
In short, who is the boss of
North Korea, Kim or Beijing over North Korea’s deal?
President Chen Shui-bian May 1,
2001 repeated his call on Beijing to engage in dialogue with Taiwan’s
government, saying the only way to improve cross-strait relations is to
directly contact the ruling DPP, not opposition politicians or
businessmen.
“Beijing’s courting of
Taiwan’s opposition politicians and leaders of industry to force the
government to change its policies is of no use to the cross-strait
situation,” Chen said.
Chen made his remarks yesterday
during a television conference via satellite with the Council on Foreign
Relations, a think tank based in New York.
For about Washington’s concern
that TMD approaches are intended to defend against threats or attacks from
rogue states as well as from accidental or unauthorized launches.
China was not prepared to soften
its opposition to a National Missile Defense scheme and a Theater Missile
Defense (TMD), proposed to protected allies such as Japan or US troops in
northeast Asia.
China was “more opposed to TMD”
because it would strengthen US military alliances in Asia beyond
legitimate defense needs – a reference to US-Japan security ties and
joint studies of missile defenses.
“We more strongly oppose
calls by some people to involve Taiwan in TMD, which would violate
China’s sovereignty,” Beijing said.
China should haul away hundreds of
missiles deployed across from Taiwan so the two rivals can build closer
economic ties and even jointly play host to the Olympics, Taiwan’s
outspoken vice president said May 16, 2001.
China’s speedy buildup of
missiles along its southeastern coasts recent years has turned the region
into “ the biggest flashpoint of the century,” Annette Lu said.
Before China ends its military
threat against the country, Taiwan must bolster its security with more
defensive weapons and seek diplomatic or moral support from the
international community, Lu said.
“We harbor no hostility, but we
cannot demand peace when we feel timid ourselves,” she said.
In our viewpoint, Taiwan leaders
could do force in peaceful and soft words on the issues of cross-strait
affairs.
On the other hand, Taiwan
was isolated its military training system about 12 years for the beginning
of China’s fever, since Sino-US’ love story.
Washington Post May 18, 2001
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Whether Taiwan is more like Israel
or Panama in terms of its combat strength yesterday became a point of
dispute between lawmakers and defense leaders at the legislature.
The argument stemmed from a report
by the Washington Post on April 25, which quoted an anonymous US defense
official as saying: “Before we came, we thought we’d find
Israel; instead we found Panama.”
The US should shift the focus of
its military presence in Asia toward the Philippines and other nations
closer to potential hot spots such as Taiwan, a Pentagon-sponsored study
says.
For decades, US administrations
have issued vague statements on whether the US would actually go to war
with China over Taiwan, as opposed to arming Taiwan well enough to enable
the country to defend itself.
Taiwan was weaken by
Clinton’s administration for a long time. The island’s defense was
shortening. Taiwan needs your help.
Angina pectoris as Beijing;
once again, the World Health
Organization (WHO) has voted to reject a proposal to allow Taiwan into the
organization. The WHO’s Constitution says in its preamble, “The
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the
fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race,
religion, political belief, economic or social condition.”
How could an organization whose
main objective is supposed to be “health for all” find any
justification in excluding Taiwan for five years in a row despite annual
requests for entry? How could the WHO completely ignore the rights
of Taiwan’s 23 million people to basic health? How could the WHO’s
lofty objectives be seen as anything but hollow rhetoric in the light of
such an act?
Of course, the Beijing regime,
which masterminded this puerile act, is not known for its humanity, sense
of fairness or respect for human rights. Beijing’s fictitious claim that
“the PRC already represents Taiwan within the WHO,” is anything by the
truth. Since its inception in 1949, the PRC has never ruled Taiwan
for a single day. Much less has the Beijing government provided any
meaningful help to Taiwan during epidemic outbreaks and disasters. This
makes Beijing’s claims of “brotherhood” with the people of Taiwan
even more ludicrous.
For above reasons that communist
China could expand its military power over issues of international
affairs. The United States would face the new conflicts from Beijing
in the near future.
Taiwan is the first frontier on
crises.
Yours Sincerely,