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April 2000 - Taiwan Special Weapons News

  • TAIWAN SNUBS BEIJING'S CLAIMS OF TALKS ON EQUAL-FOOTING WITH TAIWAN CNA-Taiwan 28 April 2000 -- Su Chi, chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, dismissed Tang's remarks as self-contradictory, because the "one China" policy demanded by Beijing as a prerequisite to dialogue with Taiwan is "unequal in nature".
  • MAC OFFERS PROPOSAL TO END CROSS-STRAIT STALEMATE CNA-Taiwan 28 April 2000 -- Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairman Su Chi said Chen could suggest that both sides should adhere to the "1992 consensus."
  • LOW POSSIBILITY OF CROSS-STRAIT WAR: VICE DEFENSE MINISTER [CNA Taiwan] 26 April 2000 -- The possibility of war breaking out with mainland China after Taiwan President-elect Chen Shui-bian takes office on May 20 is low, Vice National Defense Minister T.Y. Sun told reporters on Wednesday.
  • INVADING TAIWAN WOULD COST MAINLAND CHINA DEARLY: MAC OFFICIAL [CNA Taiwan] 26 April 2000 -- If mainland China were to launch an attack on Taiwan, the mainland economy might regress 20 years and its leaders would face pressure to step down, a senior mainland affairs official said on Wednesday.
  • TAIWAN / LORD Voice of America 25 April 2000 -- Former U-S ambassador to China Winston Lord has just wound up a fact-finding trip to Taiwan and is now headed to China for talks with Chinese officials.
  • US AGREEES SALE OF ARMS BUT NO DESTROYERS TO TAIWAN [CNA Taiwan] 18 April 2000 -- PAVE PAWS radar can detect missile launches within a distance of 3,000 miles and can link up with anti-missile systems under development by the United States. US officials hinted that the PAVE PAWS radar to be sold to Taiwan will not be as powerful as the version used by the US armed forces, but will greatly boost Taiwan's early warning capability.
  • AEGIS CRITICAL TO TAIWAN'S DEFENSE: DEFENSE MINISTER-DESIGNATE [CNA Taiwan] 18 April 2000 -- Defense Minister-designate Wu Shih-wen said on Tuesday that Aegis destroyers are critical to defend Taiwan's security.
  • Taiwan Arms Deal Excludes Warships By Thomas E. Ricks and Steven Mufson Washington Post April 18, 2000; Page A01 -- "If I were the Chinese, I'd have to assume that the Taiwan radar was connected to the American missile defense network," said John Pike, director of space policy at the Federation of American Scientists.
  • Text: Senator Helms Statement on Weapons Sales to Taiwan 18 April 2000 -- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms condemned the U.S. Department of Defense's decision not to sell Taiwan most of the weaponry it requested for 2000 and depicted the Clinton Administration as attempting to pour old wine into new bottles.
  • Text: Senator Helms Statement on Taiwan Defense Requests Denial 17 April 2000 -- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms issued a press release April 17 expressing extreme disappointment that the U.S. Department of Defense had decided against selling Aegis-class destroyers to Taiwan and had suggested delaying the sale of early-warning radars to the island.
  • TAIWAN WEAPONS Voice of America 17 April 2000 -- Missile expert John Pike of the private Federation of American Scientists says the ten-story-tall PAVE-PAWS would make Taiwan's existing Patriot missile defenses work much better.
  • MILITARY REITERATES ROC STANCE AGAINST NUCLEAR, BIO WEAPONS (CNA Taiwan) 12 April 2000 -- Chief of the General Staff Tang Yao-ming on Wednesday reiterated the military's determination to follow the government's set policy of never seeking the development of nuclear or biochemical weapons.
  • PRESIDENT-ELECT CHEN TALKS ABOUT CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS (CNA Taiwan) 09 April 2000 -- Republic of China President-elect Chen Shui-bian stressed Sunday that advocating the right to self-determination is different from advocating Taiwan's independence.
  • SENATE LEADER PRESSES FOR ARM SALES TO TAIWAN WHILE SUPPORTING TSEA (CNA Taiwan) 08 April 2000 -- If the Pentagon approves the deal, two of the four destroyers -- with a price tag of US$1 billion each -- will be built in Lott's home state of Mississippi, and will boost the senator's re-election campaign in November.
  • TAIWAN SHOULD KEEP SILENT ON ARMS FROM US: ROC DEFENSE MINISTER (CNA Taiwan) 05 April 2000 -- Although earlier reports said the United States has agreed to provide Taiwan with the state-of-the-art Aegis warships, the latest news in Taiwan on Wednesday was that the United States has made a decision not to sell Taiwan any of the vessels this year.
  • WEI JINSHENG WARNS OF BEIJING ATTACK IF TAIWAN DECLARES INDEPENDENCE (CNA Taiwan) 04 April 2000 -- Top mainland Chinese democracy activist Wei Jinsheng on Monday warned of genuine military actions to be taken by mainland China in the face of Taiwan independence.
  • EXPERT SAYS BEIJING'S WAIT-AND-SEE APPROACH BODES ILL FOR TAIWAN (CNA Taiwan) 04 April 2000 -- The looming power struggle in the run-up to the scheduled reshuffling of Beijing's ruling team in 2002 is further prompting leaders there to get tough with Taiwan as a way to boost their position within the Chinese Communist Party.
  • NEW ROC ADMINISTRATION TO HONOR ARMS AGREEMENTS WITH US (CNA Taiwan) 03 April 2000 -- Chiou I-jen, DPP representative to the US, said that he does not know if the US will sell advanced Aegis radar-equipped warships to Taiwan.
  • Taiwan President-Elect Denies Sending Emissary To Beijing Apr 3, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) Taiwan's president-elect Chen Shui-bian Sunday denied a report that he had asked respected U.S. scientist Jeremy Stone to visit Beijing to help thaw frosty ties.
  • DPP MAY NOT RULE OUT 'ONE CHINA' PRINCIPLE: PARTY CADRE (CNA Taiwan) 03 April 2000 -- Hsiao Bi-khim, director of the DPP's International Affairs Department, said the DPP may not rule out the possibility of accepting Beijing's demands to rekindle talks under the "one China principle," but added that it first must gain a deeper understanding of the "one China" framework drafted by Beijing.
  • 'ONE CHINA' DISPUTE RESULTS FROM LACK OF MUTUAL TRUST: AIT HEAD (CNA Taiwan) 02 April 2000 -- Richard Bush, head of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), which represents US interests in lieu of official relations between the two countries, said Taiwan and mainland China should try to seek terms acceptable to both sides so as to restart bilateral talks.
  • KINMEN COAST GUARD DETAINS 5 MAINLAND FISHING BOATS FOR POACHING (CNA Taiwan) 02 April 2000 -- Cutters of the National Coastal Guard Administration, Kinmen Chapter, captured five mainland Chinese fishing boats along with 20 crewmen that had been poaching in waters of Kinmen Island.
  • Envoy Reaches Out to Beijing For Taiwanese By John Pomfret Washington Post Saturday, April 1, 2000; Page A13 -- BEIJING, March 31 -- An American scientist who helped negotiate arms control treaties with the Soviet Union came to China tonight on a sensitive and unannounced trip to talk to Chinese leaders about Taiwan.



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