US to give missiles to Taiwan

[Nottingham]

US to give missiles to Taiwan
From correspondents in Taipei
July 13, 2003
THE US will deliver 200 advanced air-to-air missiles to Taiwan after it had held them in a US air base for three years to avoid upsetting China, a news report said today.

When it agreed to sell the AIM-120C advanced medium range air-to-air missiles to Taiwan in 2000, Washington decided to hold the weapons in the United States to avoid giving the island air supremacy over China or provoking Beijing into accelerating its pursuit of a similar capability.

Washington recently agreed to turn over the missiles because the Chinese air force has acquired advanced fighter jets and successfully test-fired Russian-built AA-12 air-to-air missiles, posing a greater threat to Taiwan, the semiofficial Central News Agency said.

The AIM-120C missiles, to be carried by US-built F-16 fighter jets, will be shipped to Taiwan in a month or two from the US air base in Guam, the agency quoted unidentified Taiwanese military officials as saying.

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What the hell! Bush is really egging on China! :bounce:

[dArKeR]

1. The Bush Crime Family needs another war to cover the Iraq

and Afghanistan, 9/11, and anthrax lies/failures/cover-ups...

[Nottingham]

2. Ya I think your right Bush wants WWIII! thats the only answer for this

Why Now of all the freakin times. :bounce:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Why now?

Because Rummy made the decision and Rummy is a freakin' madman.

'nuff said...

[sam sarrha]

4. war with china?

china is the next supper power, Bush is destroying the economy with the defacit, and the next cold war will be won by the side with the the most resources... and china has much more Soylent Green than we do. The goverment of china has had a program of Genocide against the Tibetan since 1959. a country so peaceful that they have not found it necessary to have even a police force in 1,400 years. about 25% of the population or 1.6 million Tibetans have been murdered in forced labor death camps, thru executions, starvation or housing distruction in winter. monks have been retried in prison and executed. tho the USA now has more people percapita in prison than china, their prisons are torture chambers. would china treat us any better than Tibet. we are already at war with china, check out the book 'the art of war' by Sun Tzu, china 650bc. it is about how to overcome an enemy while they think you are still a friend, and win without conflict. there are only about 2 shoe factories in the usa. do we even have the tools to retool back out of dependancy, will those addicted to Greed let us?