Dear Mr. Trent Lott,
        Mr. Denny Hastert,

We don't wait for the procedure of war's military attack ...

Mainland China on Thursday (Oct. 28, 1999) said the United States had no right to interfere in the internal affairs of Hong Kong.

The remarks were made after new U.S. consul-general in Hong Kong Michael Klosson raised several local issues including democracy in Hong Kong at a luncheon meeting on Tuesday.

In a statement, the office of the Chinese commission of the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Hong Kong said Klossen's remarks were "inappropriate". "The internal affairs of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region are entirely internal matters of China and any foreign nation has no right to interfere," it said.

"It is inappropriate for the U.S. consul general to make irresponsible remarks on the internal affairs of Hong Kong special administrative region."

Klosson, who took up his post in August, said Hong Kong should expand democracy, saying "the way to find out what the people desire is to begin to discuss this issue as Hong Kong charts its path into the 21st century."

He criticized the Hong Kong government's handling of an immigration issue after it asked Beijing to reinterpret the Basic Law in order to cut down the number of mainlanders entitled to resettle here.

China expressed outrage yesterday (Oct. 29, 1999) at a U.S. congressional effort to strengthen military ties with Taiwan and said it expected to discuss the issue in talks with a visiting senior U.S. diplomat.

The talks yesterday between U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi were intended to smooth ties frayed by the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia during the war over Kosovo.

But Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said that in the wake of Tuesday's U.S. Congressional committee vote to expand security ties with Taiwan, that issue needs to be discussed too.

The "Taiwan Security Enhancement Act," would increase training operations and exchanges between the U.S. and Taiwanese militaries and establish lines of communications during crises. It also states that it is in America's national interest to make clear that the United States will protect Taiwan from outside coercion and force.

Zhang, the Chinese spokeswoman, expressed China's "strong indignation and firm opposition" to the act, saying it violated U.S. commitments to China, encroached on Chinese sovereignty and "grossly interfered in China's internal matters."

She urged Congress to stop the bill from becoming law. She accused those who passed it of seeking to provide a legal basis for supplying weapons and equipment to Taiwan and obstruct China's desire to reunify Taiwan with the mainland.

"Their attempt will pose serious threats to the peace and stability of the Taiwan Straits and Asia-Pacific region and China-U.S. relations," Zhang said at a regular briefing for reporters.

The bill still would have to be passed by the full House and Senate and be signed by President Clinton before it would become law.

China's military technology should be feared

By Chang Kuo-cheng, Oct. 29, 1999 ---
According to the Chinese Anwei Digest Weekly Report, China plans to invest 80 billion renminbi to strengthen the People's Liberation Army's "defense and counter-attack capabilities." As China plans to enhance its defense against the military might of the United States, the United States Department of Defense recently published a report indicating China has the capability to seize air superiority over Taiwan Strait in 45 minutes, using ballistic missiles against the major military C41 installations in Taiwan.

Since China's national defense budget has traditionally been kept confidential, the outside world cannot asses the true direction of China's defense policy and the completion rate of its national defense plans from changes in the budget. Outsiders thus are unable to determine the validity of the report. The development of Chinese armaments is focused on long-range weapons of mass destruction such as ballistic missiles. Although the United States is not directly threatened by these high-tech developments, for Taiwan and Japan, as well as the frontline military personnel deployed by the United States in Asia, the threats are real and imminent.

On February 16, 1991, an Iraqi Scud missile was fired at the port city of Al Jubayl in Saudi Arabia. The missile was not intercepted and landed 100 yards from the harbor, where the U.S. advanced amphibious attack vessels USS Tarawa and other logistic vessels were at anchor. Also at the harbor was a fuel tank parking lot and an ammunition depot. If the logistic depot were hit, then Pearl Harbor would have unfolded yet again in the Middle East. Nine days later, a Scud missile hit a U.S. Army barracks in Dhahran and killed 28 soldiers, the heaviest American casualties in any engagement in Desert Storm.

Having far more advanced military than that of Iraq, the United States enjoyed total air superiority and was equipped with several Patriot air-defense missile launch batteries. Still the U.S. military was unable to intercept that single primitive ballistic missile; it was lucky that the Scud missile did not cause further damage.

Although China lags the United States in high-tech air and sea power, the U.S. military is supported by a complex yet fragile logistic system. The current anti-ballistic missile defense system of the U.S. is inadequate to cover all the U.S. military targets and logistic facilities; thus it has to focus on the major installations. In the event of a military confrontation, China will definitely not wait until the U.S. has deployed its defense systems before launching attacks on U.S. allies such as Taiwan. In addition, China has advanced guided missiles and nuclear weapons technology; the range, accuracy, and power of its guided missiles are far superior to those of Iraq. Unlike during the Gulf War, the U.S. is likewise unable to identify the missile bases and seize air superiority.

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. was better armed and won far more battles. Yet no one thought the United States won the war. The U.S. was psychologically beaten by the North Vietnamese, a fact which China, then a major ally of North Vietnam, understood thoroughly. If Iraq could sustain 39 says of bombing from the world's most powerful air force and still launch a single Scud missile to inflict heavy casualties on the U.S. military, then we have no reason to doubt China's capabilities.

Since Taiwan is only some 160 kilometers from China, the two hundred M9 and forty-eight M11 missiles deployed by China are serious threats. Although successful with its Phalanx close-in weapons system and the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), the United States has to show its resolve and dedication in opposing China's active missile deployment and proliferation. In addition, the United States should actively support Taiwan in the deployment of theater missile defense (TMD). Otherwise, the United States may not be able to prevent China launching missiles in the future, not only against Taiwan, but also against the United States.

We have a urgently wishes for preventing the threat from Beijing; so we wants;

Taiwan needs to protect itself against communist Chinese aggression, the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act, in particular, sets the following requirements, in addition to those provisions cited earlier:

--- Washington in assessing Taiwan's defense needs, must take into account
mainland China's military modernization programs and its continued procurements of advanced weapons from abroad.

--- Any decision to place quantity or quality limits on arms to Taiwan by citing the
Aug. 17 1982 communique or any other diplomatic documents Washington
signed with Beijing will be viewed by Congress as contradicting the purpose for
which the TRA was enacted.

--- Washington must abandon the current policy of maintaining strategic
ambiguity and, instead, make clear its stance that the U.S. will continue to
protect Taiwan from coercion and force. Continuing to follow that policy may
led to unnecessary misunderstandings or potential confrontations with the PRC,
a development that would bring grave consequences for security in the western
Pacific region.

--- And the executive branch must provide Congress with regular reports
analyzing the threat posed by various branches of the PRC military. Such
reports must also include assessments of the security measures adopted by
Taiwan to cope with those threats.

So, Taiwan needs your support over whole Asia's security, and U.S. interests.