China military blasts U.S. arms sales to Taiwan
China military blasts U.S. arms sales to Taiwan
First Posted: 9/21/11
Arms sales to Taiwan were mostly older outdated defensive weaponry but the latest is more aggressive with first strike attack F 16s etc. This package is more strategically focused on China of course not to forget America needs the money. Kind of like the crack dealer who wants to go straight but lacks the cash for rehab so continues to sell harmful drugs to others.China's Foreign Ministry has already lambasted the Obama administration for telling U.S. Congress on Wednesday that it plans a $5.3 billion upgrade of Taiwan's F-16 fighter fleet, and Beijing warned that the step would damage Sino-American military and security links.
China considers Taiwan a breakaway province to be reunified with the mainland eventually, and by force if necessary.
"The Chinese military expresses its utmost indignation and strong condemnation of this action that gravely interferes in China's domestic affairs and damages China's sovereignty and national security interests," a Ministry of Defense spokesman, Senior Colonel Geng Yansheng, said on the ministry's website (www.mod.gov.cn)."
But we should not be concerned with this as the US signed an agreement in 1982 that says these sales would be reduced over time:
Joint Communique of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China
17 August 1982
Joint Communiqu
Note Article 5 which reads in part:
So of course the Americans are living up to the deal signed by President Reagan. Right? You think so...lol.Having in mind the foregoing statements of both sides, the United States Government states that it does not seek to carry out a long-term policy of arms sales to Taiwan, that its arms sales to Taiwan will not exceed, either in qualitative or in quantitative terms, the level of those supplied in recent years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, and that it intends gradually to reduce its sale of arms to Taiwan, leading, over a period of time, to a final resolution. In so stating, the United States acknowledges China's consistent position regarding the thorough settlement of this issue.
Nah.
Sales by decade since Joint Communique:
1980s - US$19 billion
1990s - 219 billion
2000s - 330 billion.
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The irony is that all that military stuff will be in PRC hands if there is reunification of sorts as the PRC has SARS to prove that you can have one country, two systems. In fact this model might have prevented a lot of European blood shed if used there.
Today this guy is your friend like Osama or the Shah or Iran or Dictator in Iraq - tomorrow your enemy.