U.S. MILITARY BRASS CONCERNED ABOUT CHINA'S 'ANTI-SECESSION' LAW
ROC Central News Agency
2005-03-10 23:21:09
Washington, March 10 (CNA) Admiral William Fallon, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, Thursday said he was concerned about China's "anti-secession" legislation.
Speaking at a full committee hearing on the FY2006 defense budget request at the House Armed Services Committee, Fallon said that the "anti-secession" legislation that contains language that includes other-than-peaceful means as a potential step in dealing with the Taiwan issue is "certainly not something we would like to see."
The U.S. military cannot solve the problem on its own, he noted, suggesting that it needs help from all the agencies of the government and U.S. allies as well.
The first step would be reemphasizing U.S. policy regarding the status quo, emphasizing no unilateral moves by either sides of the Taiwan Strait, he went on. "We might facilitate efforts to peacefully resolve this by emphasizing those areas of shared interests, particularly between ourselves and China, stability in the Korean peninsula, the tremendous economic benefits that flow today and could continue to grow, the very, very robust cross-strait economic activities, as one example, the reestablished commercial air travel between Taiwan and the mainland," he added.
Fallon pledged that he plans to do the best he can to support a peaceful resolution of the Taiwan issue.
(By Oliver Lin & Huang Kwang-chun)
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