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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery

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To: RealMuLan who wrote (1529)11/18/2003 7:41:33 PM
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China-Israel ties worry US

By Harvey Morris*

11/18/03

One element of the diplomatic crisis that erupted between Washington and Beijing this spring, after a US surveillance aircraft narrowly survived a close encounter with a Chinese warplane, went almost unnoticed in the drama surrounding the fate of the American crew.

Photographs released by the Pentagon of two Chinese jets that had shadowed the EP-3E Aries II on April 1 showed they were armed with Israeli-made Python air- to-air missiles. It was the first public proof of what had for years been an open secret in the defence community – that Israel is a supplier of sophisticated modern weaponry to the Chinese military.

This unlikely relationship has been a persistent cause of friction in the otherwise close US-Israeli relationship over the years. China's relationship with Israel has existed for 20 years and long predates the opening of diplomatic relations between the two countries and Israel's readiness to supply the Chinese with sophisticated weaponry – some of it developed in co-operation with the US – is something that increasingly concerns Washington...

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