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TAIPEI, Taiwan: China now has better fighter jets than Taiwan, according to a military report by the island’s Ministry National Defense (MND) as the air force yesterday renewed its bid to obtain new F-16s from the United States.
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China now has better fighter jets than Taiwan, according to a military report by the island’s defence ministry which has been unsuccessful in its attempts to seek new F-16 jets from the United States.
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RECENTLY, after the Obama administration announced a substantial arms sales package for Taiwan — one that was almost entirely defensive — China responded vociferously by suspending military exchanges.
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BEIJING, CHINA – A top Chinese Communist Party official said on Wednesday that Beijing was firmly committed to developing peaceful relations with long-time rival Taiwan, despite recent tensions over US arms sales to the island.
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Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou gives a speech to Taiwan businessmen who have invested in China in Taipei February 22, 2010. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang BEIJING, March 3 (Reuters) – A top Chinese Communist Party official said on Wednesday that Beijing was firmly committed to developing peaceful relations with long-time rival Taiwan, despite recent tensions over U.S. arms sales to the island.
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BEIJING, March 3 — A top Chinese Communist Party official said today that Beijing was firmly committed to developing peaceful relations with long-time rival Taiwan, despite recent tensions over US arms sales to the island. China reacted angrily in January after US President Barack Obama’s administration unveiled its first arms package for Taiwan — including missiles, helicopters and mine hunting …
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Beijing, Feb. 22 : With its proposed weapon deal with Taiwan, the US appears determined to encircle China with American-built anti-missile systems, Chinese military experts have observed.
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China’s anger at Obama’s decisions to allow a new arms sale to Taiwan and meet with the Dalai Lama has jeopardized the prospects for talks on Iran sanctions
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With its proposed weapon deal with Taiwan, the US appears determined to encircle China with American-built anti-missile systems, Chinese military experts have observed.
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China would give subsidies and preferred treatment to companies that manufacture products for national defence under a draft law now under review, state-run Xinhua news agency said Wednesday.

The report comes amid a major expansion and modernisation of the nation’s massive armed forces in recent years that has raised concern overseas over China’s military intentions.

Xinhua said the subsidies were part of a national defence mobilisation bill under consideration this week by a committee of the National People’s Congress, the nation’s rubber-stamp legislature, ahead of its full meeting next month.

Firms that invest in product research, development, or the manufacture of major defence-related items will “enjoy subsidies or other preferential policies”, it said.

The annual meeting of the full congress opens on March 5.

The smaller Standing Committee, which actually approves legislation, is meeting this week to consider various proposals.

After relying for decades on purchases of Soviet weapons or on homegrown arms based on Soviet designs, China has in recent years developed advanced weapons systems of its own, military analysts say.

Beijing has announced a series of double-digit military budget increases over the past several years and is expected to announced its 2010 budget next week.

The United States and some of China’s regional neighbours have expressed concern about the build-up, which Beijing stresses is defensive in nature.

China last month suspended military and security contacts with the United States out of anger over a 6.4-billion-dollar US sale of Patriot missiles, Black Hawk helicopters, mine-hunting ships and other weaponry to Taiwan.

China claims the self-ruled island as its own.

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March 1 (Bloomberg) — A proposed U.S. sale to Taiwan of missiles, helicopters and ships valued at about $6.4 billion will go forward. The House and Senate foreign affairs committees took no action on the proposal during the 30-day window for objection that ended yesterday, thereby allowing it to proceed in the face of protests from China.
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China has postponed several high-level exchanges between U.S. and Chinese military leaders since Washington angered Beijing by announcing a $6.4 billion arms package for Taiwan, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
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China’s military warned the United States against considering selling fighter jets to Taiwan, telling Washington to “speak and act carefully” and denying the People’s Liberation Army played a part in internet hacking.
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Honour guards stand in a line before an official welcoming ceremony inside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, February 25, 2010. REUTERS/Jason Lee BEIJING, Feb 26 (Reuters) – China’s military warned the United States against considering selling fighter jets to Taiwan, telling Washington to “speak and act carefully” and denying the People’s Liberation Army played a part in Internet hacking.
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BEIJING – China warned the U.S. on Thursday against any future arms sales to Taiwan and reaffirmed its decision to suspend military exchanges over Washington’s plan to sell $6.4 billion in military hardware to the island.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s military warned the United States against considering selling fighter jets to Taiwan, telling Washington to “speak and act carefully” and denying the People’s Liberation Army played a part in Internet hacking.
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China on Thursday asked the United States to avoid damaging bilateral relations further and also said it would not change its decision to suspend the planned mutual visits between the Chinese and U.S. militaries after the U.S. arms sale to Taiwan in late January. China had decided to suspend scheduled visits between the Chinese and U.S. armed forces, in response to Washington’s plan to sell an …
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China has postponed at least three high-level exchanges with the US military after Washington approved an arms package for Taiwan last month, a Pentagon spokesman said on Wednesday.
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ARLINGTON, Va. — China has postponed three military exchanges with the United States, including a visit by a four-star U.S. admiral, in protest of a recent U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, Pentagon officials revealed Tuesday.
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Chinese military figures have warned the US that it is igniting long dormant tensions by selling arms to Taiwan and allowing Internet search engine Google to make allegations about China hacking into its system.
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