CIA issues warning on China’s military efforts

[truthpusher]

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b5f01a94-804f-11d9-bd50-00000e2511c8.html

CIA issues warning on China’s military efforts
By Edward Alden in Washington
Published: February 16 2005 19:32 | Last updated: February 16 2005 19:32

The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned that China's military modernisation is tilting the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait and increasing the threat to US forces in the region.

Delivering the agency's annual assessment of worldwide threats on Wednesday, Porter Goss, a former Republican congressman who was named in September to head the CIA, dropped any mention of the co-operative elements of the US-China relationship that characterised recent CIA statements. Instead, he said China was making determined military and diplomatic efforts to “counter what it sees as US efforts to contain or encircle China”.

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The change in tone was notable given US concerns over Europe's plan to end its embargo on arms sales to China. Experts on China said that, while warnings about China's military capabilities were not new, the CIA had in the past underscored the co-operation between the US and China.

In testimony last year, George Tenet, former CIA head, praised China for co-operation in the war on terrorism and for its participation in the nuclear talks with North Korea. In 2003, Mr Tenet described US-Taiwan relations as relatively placid and said China was trying to assert its influence through “economic growth and Chinese integration into the global economy”. James Lilley, a former US ambassador to China, said that, while it was appropriate for the CIA to focus on longer-term threats, the growing economic ties between China and Taiwan were making conflict less likely.

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[Warren Stupidity]

1. China is the PNAC enemy #1 (NT)

[donheld]

2. Social Security Reform = Social Security Deform

[w4rma]

3. I disagree. I think PNAC is trying to *copy* China. (nt)

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. China: now there's a war I would like to see bush try and sell

and see the freeps get behind. What a laugh.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. the idea is to cut off their access to oil (nt)

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. What happens when China decides it doesn't want it's access

cut off?

I doubt, given the history of the bush administration's general "wisdom" about anything, that this question is given any consideration.

[BRLIB]

4. Doesn't matter, both Bushler and his fellow Merikans

(at least 59 million plus of them) have their tongues firmly implanted in the the regime's rulers' sphincters.

[bpilgrim]

7. the PNAC plan is meeting resistance abroad...

who'd a thunk anyone would be crazy enough to stand up to our well armed crazies :shrug:


http://images.globalfreepress.com

i wonder how we would take any other nation's political leaders making a similar declaration for the 21st century?

peace