Taiwan: China targeting island with 900 missiles on 5 bases
Pastor Dale Morgan
Taiwan: China targeting island with 900 missiles on 5 bases*
Special to World Tribune.com
Thursday, November 17, 2006
China continues its planning to invade Taiwan and now has more than 900
missile targeted on the island, Taiwanese officials said last week.
“Despite China's impressive economic rise, it has become more
authoritarian, posing a grave threat to our sovereignty and abusing
human rights like never before," Taiwanese President Chen Shuibian said.
Mainland Affairs Council Chairman Joseph Wu also said in Taipei that
China is a threat and has supported some of the world’s most notorious
violators of human rights.
Chinese missiles are located in five bases in nearby Fujian Province.
Additionally, China now has 11 military satellites in orbit.
Noting calls for China to remove the missiles, Chen said it would not be
enough. “If China one day removed the missiles from its east coast, they
could just transport them all back the next day," he said.
China also is developing cruise missiles and other weapons. “China's
acquisition of long-range bombers and mid-air refuelers from Russia
means that it seeks to project its military power beyond Taiwan, because
Chinese fighter jets wouldn't need to refuel mid-air in a cross-strait
attack,” Chen said.
Wu said China seeks to take over Taiwan because it views the island as a
"stumbling block to projecting power" throughout Asia.
Wu criticized the United States for mistaking Taiwanese efforts at
further democratization as steps toward formal independence.