Asia: Facing Down the Bully.(US relations with Taiwan, China)(Brief Article)

National Review | April 16, 2001 | Copyright

Is the Bush administration willing to face down the bully-boy of Asia? Following China's buildup of ballistic missiles opposite Taiwan, the government of the island nation has asked to buy four destroyers of the Arleigh Burke class (like the U.S.S. Cole, attacked by terrorists in Aden last year) equipped with the sophisticated Aegis missile-tracking system. China's vice prime minister, Qian Qichen, visiting Washington, thundered that such a sale would be a "very serious setback" to U.S.- China relations and might ignite "the flame of war." His boss, President Jiang Zemin, ...

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