Re: Von wegen HiTec-Waffen...
Geschrieben von Mr. Burns am 24. April 2001 18:08:17:
Als Antwort auf: Von wegen HiTec-Waffen... geschrieben von Mischel am 24. April 2001 13:39:07:
"Bush stimmt dem Verkauf von u.a. 8 dieselgestützen U-Booten und 4 Lenkraketenzerstören der Kidd-Klasse zu. Diese sind aber seitens der Navy eingemottet und die Technologie ist 20 jahre alt. Schreibt jedenfalls die NYT"
Hallo Mischel,
aufgrund eines Gesetzes von 1979 ist die USA zu ihrer jährlichen
Waffenlieferung an Taiwan verpflichtet. Allerdings waren das bisher
meistens Standardwaffen. Diesmal sollte es schon etwas besseres
sein, die USA haben haben in letzter Minute jedoch aufgrund massiver
Chinesischer Drohungen einen Rückzieher gemacht.
Für unseren Cowboy George ist der Deal aber noch lange nicht ab-
gehakt, er hält es nach eigenen Angaben "noch immer für denkbar"
daß die vier Aegis-Zerstörer doch noch verkauft werden.
Aber selbst jetzt, wo doch nur 'normale' Zerstörer verkauft wurden,
sehen die Gelben rot. Anbei eine Nachricht von Reuters:
BEIJING (Reuters) - China believes the U.S. decision to sell Taiwan
submarines crosses a strategic red line and will take swift and
concrete actions in retaliation, a leading Chinese academic predicted
Tuesday.
"I think there will be some substantive actions and this
will come very soon,"
said Wu Xinbo, a professor at the Fudan University Center for
American Studies in Shanghai.
"I cannot identify the specific areas at this moment,
but those actions will make the U.S. acutely aware of the
cost of its behavior on this issue and remindthe U.S. about
the relative gain or loss from its Taiwan policy," Wu said.
"There will be some things that are substantial, not just symbolic,"
he said.
China has yet to respond officially to the arms sales package,
which it had lobbied to halt. A senior congressional aide said
Washington would sell Taiwan four Kidd Class destroyers, eight
submarines and 12 P-3 anti-submarine aircraft.
President Bush had turned down a request from Taiwan, at least
for now, to buy the Aegis system, the aide said.China-U.S. ties are already strained by a tense showdown over
the April 1 collision between a U.S. EP-3 spy plane and a Chinese
fighter jet and by former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui's impending
visit to the United States.
RED-LINE ITEMS
Wu, who writes frequently on U.S.-China security issues, said
China had considered submarines "red-line" items on Taiwan's
weapons shopping list, along with the advanced Aegis naval air
defense system and the PAC-3 missile defense system.
"At this stage, protest is too mild an action, given this break
of the red line,and I'm concerned at its effect on cross-Strait
relations and U.S.-China relations," he said.
China would not be assuaged by Bush's decision to put off the
sale of the Aegis and PAC-3 systems because previous U.S.
administrations had stopped short of submarine sales to Taiwan.
"This package represents a major breakthrough in U.S. arms sales
policy to Taiwan and this will be certainly viewed by Beijing as
a major problem for U.S.-China relations and for cross-Strait
relations," he said.
Yan Xuetong, executive director of the Center for Foreign
Policy Studies at Tsinghua University, said: "I don't think
the American decision not to sell the Aegis is a kind of
compromise."
"They used the Aegis like a bluff card to sell essential
weapons to Taiwan, especially submarines," Yan said.
"If tensions over Taiwan are going on, the U.S. will someday
sell Aegis to Taiwan," he added.
NON-PROLIFERATION FALLOUT?
Asked about the message Beijing will draw from the Taiwan
arms package, Yan said: "Politically, that indicates the
Bush administration no longer considers strategic cooperation
with China."
Although Yan declined to predict how China might retaliate
against the new arms package, he referred to non-proliferation
-- an area where many analysts believeBeijing has previously
linked on-again, off-again cooperation with Washington to
Taiwan arms.
"China will feel hopeless to maintain the international
regime of non-proliferation if the United States tries
to undermine that regime," Yan said.
A Western diplomat said China would probably avoid "obvious,
high-profile acts of retaliation" in favor of a
"revenge-by-stealth process" in non-proliferation policies.
Reneging outright on commitments to control chemical and
biological weapons or missiles was unlikely because it
would hurt China's international image, the diplomat said.
"But there are areas of military and technological
cooperation that they can indulge in with states in the
Middle East where they're technically not in breach of any
agreements," he said, referring to past Chinese help for
Iran and Pakistan.
"There's potential for them to increase cooperation there
as a way of putting pressure on the U.S. in the long term."
Viele Grüße
Mr. Burns