Biden on Realationship With China

choi

本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布

Joseph R Biden Jr, China's Rise Isn't Our Demise. New York Times, Sept 8, 2011.
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/opinion/chinas-rise-isnt-our-demise.html

My comment: While a senator, Mr Biden was friendly about China. So I believe he is sincere in this op-ed, which for the most part pats US in its back. As vice president, though, he is not known to be a policy maker behind America's China policy.  


-------------------------------Separately
(1) William Lowther, Sell Taiwan F-16s: US Representative. Taipei Times, Sept 11, 2011 (available now)
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/09/11/2003513003
(Representative Adam Smith [of Washington state], the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, in a speech on House floor on Sept 9)

Note: On June 16, 2011 House Representative Howard L Berman of California, the ranking member of House Foreign Affairs Committee urged the executive branch to sell F-16s to Taiwan.  

(2) Highest-Level US Trip to Taiwan in Five Years‎. AFP, Sept 9, 2011
("US assistant secretary of commerce Suresh Kumar is scheduled to visit Taiwan next week")

(3) 对台军售限期逼近，美官员口风仍紧.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110908-TAIWAN-CAMPBELL-F16-129474613.html

(4) 陳慧萍, 《維基解密》朱立倫向美爆料 馬若連任 可能訪中. Liberty Times, Sept 10, 2011.
http://libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/sep/10/today-fo6.htm

(5) 范正祥、陳慧萍, 《維基解密》ＡＩＴ正面評價蘇嘉全 形容吳敦義精明. Liberty Times, Sept 10, 2011.  
http://libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/sep/10/today-fo7.htm

(6) 《維基解密》中國零八憲章 師法美麗島雜誌. Liberty Times, Sept 10, 2011.
http://libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/sep/10/today-fo8.htm

(7) 中国抗议墨西哥总统会晤达赖喇嘛. BBC Chinese, Sept 10, 2011.

(8) 华裔美国人因进口假货被判刑. BBC Chinese, Sept 10, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2011/09/110910_us_china_counterfeiter.shtml
(Chun-Yu ZHAO; 在中国生产假冒的思科网络设备并出口美国销售)

(9) S Korea spends $43 million on 67 Spike NLOS missile to be deployed on Baengnyeong and Yeonpyeong islands in the Yellow Sea later this year. NLOS stands for "non line of sight." The missile is made by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems of Israel. "In May 2010 the [US] Army canceled the Non-Line of Sight-Launch System, a billion-dollar missile program under development": Precision Attack Missile (PAM) of Raytheon and loitering Attack Missile (LAM) of Lockheed Martin. GlobalSecurity.org
This explains why S Korea buys from Israel rather than from US. NLOS refers to capability of this missile which can loiter above a target  before aiming at it. I do not know why US Army canceled the project.


--