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To: ahhaha who wrote (2012)	4/14/2001 9:59:06 PM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 24758

At least there is less pressure on Mr Bush Taiwan eases bid for arms Remarks by foreign minister lessen the pressure on the Bush administration to sell destroyers equipped with an advanced tracking system to the island nation. BY MICHAEL ZIELENZIGER Mercury News Tokyo Bureau TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan's foreign minister said Friday that his government could accept a Bush administration decision not to sell the island warships equipped with the sophisticated Aegis weapons system. ``It isn't the end of the world'' if Washington decides not to include the Aegis system, which can detect and track more than 100 missiles, aircraft, surface vessels or submarines at a time, in the package of weapons it sells Taiwan, Foreign Minister Tien Hung-mao said in an interview with the Mercury News Tokyo Bureau. Tien's remarks are likely to relieve some of the pressure on the Bush administration to sell Aegis-equipped Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to Taiwan in the wake of China's 11-day detention of 24 crew members from a crippled U.S. spy plane. Republican Party hawks on China argue that arming Taiwan with the Aegis system, a move China strongly opposes, would signal U.S. resolve to Beijing and the rest of Asia after the administration's carefully worded regrets for the April 1 collision between the Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese jet fighter. ``Aegis has been singled out as the weapon Taiwan has to have. Certainly we want to maximize acquisition at this time. But we recognize the U.S. may not agree to the entire package,'' Tien said in his offices. ``We are willing to give the new administration the benefit of the doubt. They will do their best to satisfy our need at this time.'' Taiwan has run its affairs independently since the 1949 revolution in China, when the communist army lacked the military means to take control of the island. China considers Taiwan a renegade province and has threatened military action if it declares independence. The United States acknowledges that there is only one China, with Beijing as its capital, but insists that reunification must be carried out peacefully and with the consent of Taiwan's people. Tien acknowledged that a decision to sell the Aegis system ``could trigger a very severe negative reaction on the part of the Chinese,'' and he said the Taiwanese government would understand if the administration balks out of concern about how Beijing would respond. ``The U.S. administration has to take that into account,'' said Tien, the former director of a prominent Taipei think tank. ``They know the risks; they understand the situation and how the Chinese might react. If it doesn't happen, it isn't the end of the world. In terms of our total security needs, it's not just one weapon'' that guarantees Taiwan's security, he said. ``Maintaining very friendly relations with the United States government is very important for us,'' Tien said, and damaging that relationship over one weapon system is not sensible. ``We believe that strong help and American concern for Taiwan's security is as important as having those weapons,'' he said, because Taipei would expect U.S. assistance should China ever attack the island. Tien made it clear that his government would be comfortable with less than a full basket of weaponry this year because Taiwan expects to have warm ties with the Bush administration. As it does annually, Taiwan has given the Pentagon a long list of weapons it would like to purchase from the United States, including attack helicopters, Patriot missiles and submarines. The Bush administration is expected to announce its decision about what to sell April 24. If Taiwan doesn't get everything it wants from Washington, it has nowhere else to turn. Because few nations want to incur China's wrath by selling military hardware to the island, the United States and France are Taipei's only major sources of defensive military equipment. Taiwan produces its own long-range missiles and jet fighters. With tensions still high in the Taiwan Strait, Tien said his government would welcome some mechanism for Taiwanese and Chinese pilots and sailors to communicate with one another in case of accidents or emergencies. ``In order to ensure that no incident gets out of hand, we have to have some mechanism'' to talk with the mainland, he said. Taiwan's defense establishment believes China has learned the lessons of the high-tech battles in Kosovo and the Persian Gulf. Soon, it says, China will be able to use its growing arsenal of missiles to knock out Taiwanese command, control, communications and computer systems before Taipei or the United States can respond. ``It's quite possible that the first battle would be the end of the war,'' said one leading Taiwanese military strategist. The Aegis system, these analysts believe, could deter China from launching such a first strike. Because it's mobile and can track more than 100 targets simultaneously, the Aegis could serve as a backup military command and control system if Taiwan's main system were destroyed. Skeptics say the destroyers with the Aegis system, at an estimated $1 billion per ship, are too costly for a Taiwanese government whose annual defense budget is less than $10 billion. Even if it were approved this month, the system would not be available for eight years. And many in Taiwan wonder if the island has the highly skilled people necessary to operate the complex system.

To: ahhaha who wrote (2012)	4/16/2001 1:46:34 AM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 24758

From the Quote.com thread: To:Spytrdr who wrote (13545) From: Temple Williams Sunday, Apr 15, 2001 9:49 AM View Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13553 Spytrdr: This entity, who calls himself/herself/itself "ahhaha" ... is a fraud, and not a very clever one. He/she/it goes by many names ... the posts which appear to support his activities are invariably posts made by the exact same person, under a different name .... for example, NewVision is probably ahhhaha ... fut_trade is probably ahhaha ... and, if you go to his own thread of ahhaha@home here at SI, so are many of those posters, in fact, ahhaha in drag. Darleen Shurgot, Below, frankw1900, Abner Hosmer ... they are all probably one and the same. In real life, this person is perhaps a teenager, skirting the edges of sanity ... and I am almost certain that he/she/it has NEVER ... I mean this ... NEVER pulled the trigger on a single trade in his/her/its life. It will be difficult for SI to remove this insidious cancer from our midst, but a quick check of the originating ISP address should be able to cross-reference enough obvious pseudonyms to instigate an investigation, perhaps even an official one from the cyberfraud folks. I suggest as many people as possible send a note to SI asking for this person and his/her/its actions to be investigated. Under violations of terms of use of this site, send your message to si-techsupport@go2net.com Those of you who are being targeted ought to pay it a visit to clarify the issue.