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Science > Prophecies-Of-Nostradamus |
| User: |
"kali yuga 2004" |
| Date: |
19 Nov 2003 02:33:35 AM |
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World War Three 2003 **NEWS** CHINA RENEWS WAR THREAT....20/11/3 |
www.endtime.com
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For the first time since 2000, Beijing has threatened to use force
against Taiwan should the island's pro-independence movement continue
to escalate.
In a tough statement, the Vice-Minister at Beijing's Taiwan Affairs
Office Wang Zaixi said Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's recent
pro-separatist activities had crossed Beijing's "red line" and that
they "run the risk of triggering a war" with the mainland.
"War will break out if the island declares formal independence," state
media on Wednesday quoted Wang as saying.
"[The separatist forces] are set to pay a high cost if they think we
will not use force against their conspiracy to promote formal
independence."
Beijing regards Taiwan as a renegade province and has threatened to
use force if the self-governing island declares independence.
In the past month or so, Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has indicated
Taipei will be holding referendums on political issues -- and that the
island's constitution will be revised in 2006 to reflect full-fledged
statehood.
A representative from China's People's Liberation Army also spoke out
for the first time since controversy broke out several months ago over
Taiwan's "creeping independence" gambit.
The official China News Service quoted a senior researcher at the
Chinese Academy of Military Science, Luo Yuan, as saying that "the day
'Taiwan independence' is promulgated is also the time when war will be
declared."
Luo said a number of senior PLA generals shared this feeling of
urgency.
He added that if the army were to do nothing in the face of Taiwan
independence, "we would be going against the constitution and this
would be a severe dereliction of duty."
War of words
Other heavyweight figures who have given warnings to Taipei include
party elder Wang Daohan, adviser to ex-president Jiang Zemin on Taiwan
affairs.
Wang, also a former chief negotiator with Taiwan officials, said
Taipei's recent pro-independence activities amounted to a "serious
challenge" to Beijing -- and they will "push cross-Taiwan Straits
relations to the brink of danger."
Diplomatic analysts in Beijing and Taipei said the Chinese leadership
had upped the ante in the war of words because Beijing feared Chen
might sweep to victory in presidential elections coming up in March
next year.
During presidential polls in early 2000, Beijing also threatened to
use force against the break-away island.
Since then, however, the Communist party leadership has cooled down
their rhetoric and threats of a "liberation warfare" to achieve
reunification have very seldom been made in public.
The analysts said the escalation in tension had followed Beijing's
fears that some political elements in the U.S. were providing covert
aid to Taipei, and that Chen's re-election chances had been lifted
because of his ability to whip up pro-separatist sentiments among the
populace.
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