China Opposes Anti-China US Defense Act

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, December 21, 2001

China Opposes Anti-China US Defense Act

China strongly opposes the anti-China US Defense Authorization Act, said Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue Thursday afternoon.

She urged the US to correct its mistake, stop selling arms toTaiwan and avoid any acts or words that interfere in China's internal affairs and thus damage Sino-US relations.

China strongly opposes the anti-China US Defense Authorization Act, said Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue Thursday afternoon.

The 2002 Fiscal Year Defense Authorization Act, which was passed recently by the US Senate and House of Representatives, contains many anti-China clauses including selling Kidd-class destroyers to Taiwan, Zhang said.

Zhang said that China is opposed to US arms sales to Taiwan, including selling Kidd-class destroyers.

She noted that the US Congress, in disregard of China's repeated representations on the matter, passed the 2002 Fiscal Year Defense Authorization Act.

This violates the One-China policy and principles of the three Sino-US joint communiques, and is blatant interference in China's internal affairs, she said.

She urged the US to correct its mistake, stop selling arms toTaiwan and avoid any acts or words that interfere in China's internal affairs and thus damage Sino-US relations.

Arms Sales to Taiwan Dangerous Game

The US government is playing a dangerous game by deciding to sell a large amount of sophisticated weapons to Taiwan, which includes four Kidd-class destroyers, eight diesel-engine submarines, 12 P-3C aircraft and a good many other advanced weapons.

The 5-billion-dollar deal is the largest between the United States and Taiwan after the 1992 decision by the former US president George Bush, father of the present US president, to sell 150 F-16 jet fighters to the island.

If not reversed, The Wednesday decision will inevitably lead to a deterioration in the situation in the Taiwan Straits, undermine the China-US relations, and cause long-term damage to the national interests of the two countries as well as to peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region.

It violated the three China-US joint communiques which have served as pivotal buttress for the relationship between the two countries over the past decades.

Under the joint communique signed on August 17, 1982, the US government pledges 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 China and the United States, and that it intends gradually to reduce its sale of arms to Taiwan, leading, over a period of time, to a final resolution." Full text

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