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S. California Chinese-Americans Slam Bush's China Policy
Representatives from southern California's Chinese-American communities Saturday slammed US President George W. Bush's China policy for attempting to prevent Taiwan's reunification with mainland China.
At the Symposium on Sino-US and Cross Strait Relations, speakers agreed that the current US government erred in adopting policies of containing China by taking advantage of the Taiwan issue.
The symposium was held days after Bush decided to sell a number of advanced weapons to Taiwan and made remarks that he would do whatever it takes to defend the island. The latest hawkish acts taken by the Bush Administration have further chilled the Sino-US relations already soured by a US spy plane's destruction of a Chinese fighter plane in earlier April over the South China Sea.
Zhang Wenji, a professor from the Institute of Sino Strategic Studies, said Bush Administration's China policy is in fact consistent with that of various former US governments, which is aimed at preventing China from becoming a power in Asia that can confront the US in future.
After the defeats in Korea and Vietnam, the US has been worried about China's strength once it reunites with Taiwan. Bush's latest remarks on defending Taiwan exposed Washington's plots to encourage Taiwan's independence forces, Zhang added.
Wang Ziqing, a cross-strait relations expert from Chinese Strategic Studies Society in America, lashed out at the ill-intended goals of the Bush Administration in shifting the China policy from engagement to containment and besiegement.
Liu Hongkui of the Center of American-Chinese Policy Studies said it is a shame for the current US government to break the agreements on Taiwan reached with the Chinese government, by selling so many advanced weapons to Taiwan and promising to defend the island with forces.
The participants strongly attacked Taiwan's independence forces for their dirty acts of trying to divide China through begging for support of a foreign power.
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