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Updated Monday, January 4, 2010 9:38 am TWN, The China Post news staff U.S. set to sell arms to Taiwan in early 2010United States (U.S.)--China relations are to face strains in the early months of 2010, as the White House appears set to sell a package of weapons to Taiwan and President Obama plans to meet Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, the report cited U.S. officials and analysts as indicating. The U.S. President plans to meet his fellow Nobel Peace laureate, considered a separatist by Beijing, in Washington D.C. in January. Obama made headlines last year when the White House, in an effort to generate goodwill from China, declined to receive the Dalai Lama, marking the first time since 1991 that a U.S. president declined to receive the Tibetan spiritual leader during his annual visits to Washington. The report quoted David M. Lampton, director of China studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, as saying that “I think it's going to be nasty...The U.S. and China need each other.” Administration officials were also cited as saying that they are sure China will react negatively to the arms sales to Taiwan and the meeting with the Dalai Lama. At a minimum, U.S. officials expect that President Hu Jintao of China will not meet a planned nuclear security summit scheduled for April. China could also halt the resumed U.S. dialogue with China's military, which had been one of the central goals of the White House's China policy. Hopes for China's cooperation in Afghanistan are also in question. One hint that China will limit the scope of its reaction came during Obama's meeting with Hu in November, analysts were cited as saying. Hu used the formulation “sophisticated weapons” when speaking about any possible U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. U.S. officials took that to be a reference to a tranche of F-16 fighters that Taiwan requested but that, according to U.S. sources, will not be on Taipei's shopping list this time. “We hope that he [Obama] will not do that,” said Zhou Wenzhong, China's ambassador to the U.S., when asked about the possibility of the arms sales and the meeting with the Dalai Lama. Subscribe to The China Post and save 25%. Click here Comments January 4, 2010 tublairy@ Reply Don't be suckered. Waste of money. Would a mother kill her child (no matter how bad the child is)? January 4, 2010 sunterforge@ tublairy@ wrote: Stop re-writing history. Taiwan was only a province of china for a score of years in history. It improved AFTER it left China! China is too cocky for its own good, but if it wants to think Taiwan is waiting to unite, it will be waiting until it collapses (again, as China always does). It thinks it is some benevolent dictator/father/mother. Taiwan is not a baby. Maybe we should consider America the mother of china, since China is so backwards. Would America hurt its child, china-the-little-baby.... Meanwhile, Taiwan can continue to live as an economic and politically balanced country.Don't be suckered. Waste of money. Would a mother kill her child (no matter how bad the child is)? January 4, 2010 mtsai16@ tublairy@ wrote: Infanticide has happened in Taiwan. Remember the parent who threw his child into boiling water?Don't be suckered. Waste of money. Would a mother kill her child (no matter how bad the child is)? China is no ordinary "mother". Rather, as the pre-eminent global mother hen, she is mercurial, temperamental, hierarchical and more -- often heard throwing tantrums and saber-rattling on the political stage. January 5, 2010 paulanthonysamson@ Why waste money on arms, when we all know that if the commies attack it will all be over by the weekend. Better to spend the money on improved infrastructure and resource management within the country to help the people who need it, not the bank accounts of arms company share holders. January 5, 2010 tsui2003@ sunterforge@ wrote: The baby-boiling incident is cruel, but too tiny compared to millions (or hundreds of millionsl) of babies being aborted due to the one-baby policy in China.Stop re-writing history. Taiwan was only a province of china for a score of years in history. It improved AFTER it left China! China is too cocky for its own good, but if it wants to think Taiwan is waiting to unite, it will be waiting until it collapses (again, as China always does). It thinks it is some benevolent dictator/father/mother. Taiwan is not a baby. Maybe we should consider America the mother of china, since China is so backwards. Would America hurt its child, china-the-little-baby.... Meanwhile, Taiwan can continue to live as an economic and politically balanced country. January 6, 2010 sicnarf613@ paulanthonysamson@ wrote: It's more of a political front rather than what you say is a "waste of money on arms." Taiwan is getting in bed with the US and what better way to do it than to show that the US is in full support of Taiwan on the military/political front by being supported with arms? It's a way for Taiwan to say, "Hey I've got these bad-asses on my side. Now what? You can't touch me."Why waste money on arms, when we all know that if the commies attack it will all be over by the weekend. Better to spend the money on improved infrastructure and resource management within the country to help the people who need it, not the bank accounts of arms company share holders. January 15, 2010 tobais52@ sunterforge@ wrote: That's funny sunterforge, with the US so much in China's debt and China banking on the US's econ, at some point will back down and negotiations will happen again. Either that or he'll make the tragic mistake of thinking like you do and all hell breaks loose.Stop re-writing history. Taiwan was only a province of china for a score of years in history. It improved AFTER it left China! China is too cocky for its own good, but if it wants to think Taiwan is waiting to unite, it will be waiting until it collapses (again, as China always does). It thinks it is some benevolent dictator/father/mother. Taiwan is not a baby. Maybe we should consider America the mother of china, since China is so backwards. Would America hurt its child, china-the-little-baby.... Meanwhile, Taiwan can continue to live as an economic and politically balanced country. March 2, 2010 jiokjko@ tublairy@ wrote: Who's your child? China is not able to be a parent of any country!Don't be suckered. Waste of money. Would a mother kill her child (no matter how bad the child is)? March 2, 2010 fdsji@ tublairy@ wrote: Who's your child?Don't be suckered. Waste of money. Would a mother kill her child (no matter how bad the child is)? March 2, 2010 cigars898@ tublairy@ wrote: You wouldn't think so but the Chicoms have wiped out millions of their own citizens in the past. History has a way of repeating itself especially when the governing philosophy hasn't changed much.Don't be suckered. Waste of money. Would a mother kill her child (no matter how bad the child is)? |
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