Ma welcomes "New Development" of US Arm Sales

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Lee Shu-hua and Deborah Kuo, Ma welcomes reports of new development in U.S.
arms sales to Taiwan. Central News Agency, Jan. 12, 2010.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2010/01/12/240478/Ma-welcomes.htm

My comment:
(a) Note the time of reporting, which was 4:40 am EST of United States. My
view is the timing was independent of, and unaware of, the China's
announcement of anti-missile test.
(b) What the heck is "new development"?

(i) Yesterday I read this report but placed little weight on it, for the
source was China Times of Taiwan, which I think has lied all the time.

Taiwan plans to buy US frigates despite China thaw. AFP, JAn. 11, 2010.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100111/wl_asia_afp/taiwanuschinamilitaryweapons_20100111072600

However, I also noticed that Taiwan Ministry of Defense did not come out and
call the China Times report a bald-faced lie, as the Chen administration
sometimes did.

(ii) Taiwan navy has frigates: 6 Lafayette class (made in France); 8 Knox
class (made in US); and 8 Oliver Hazard Perry class (made in Taiwan
throughout 1990s, under US authorization).
Republic of China Navy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China_Navy

(iii) Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hazard_Perry_class
(FFG7)

(c) Also pay attention to the last two paragraphs of the report.


----------------Separately
(1) Mark Landler, Clinton, Starting Trip, Acknowledges Possible Tensions
With China. New York Times, Jan. 12, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/world/asia/12diplo.html?scp=1&sq=clinton%20taiwan&st=cse

Paragraph 2: "But she acknowledged that relations with the region’s other
major power, China, may be entering a rough period, as the United States
pledges to sell weapons to Taiwan, which China regards as a renegade
province, and President Obama plans a meeting with the Tibetan spiritual
leader, the Dalai Lama, over the objections of Beijing, which considers him
a separatist.

My comment: there is no need to read the rest of the report.

(2) 两岸政治对话路途遥远. VOA Chinese, Jan. 12, 2010.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/Cross-Strait-Political-Dialogur-Is-Far-From-Reach-20100112-81227397.html
("国民党立法委员林郁方接受美国之音采访时说 * * * 因为大陆担心台湾是个开放社
会政治变化很大，与其日久生变，不如尽早跟台湾进行政治对话。")

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