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Chinese approach U.S.experts
Officials recommending military action against equality-seeking Taiwan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Chinese officials have been sounding out U.S.-China specialists for their opinion on possible Chinese military action against Taiwan following Taiwanese assertions that Beijing and Taipei should be treated as equals.
Douglas Paal, president of the Washington-based Asia Pacific Policy Center, said he had been visited separately by Chinese military, government and academic representatives. He described the meetings as much more intense than interviews that he regularly has with them.
He said they talked about the possibility of capturing small, outlying Taiwanese islands, then appeared to back away from that option as too ambitious. They also raised the possibility of attacking ships.
At another point, Paal said the Chinese approaches to U.S. experts might be part of psychological warfare or just saber rattling, or an attempt to keep the United States busy while it attacks Taiwan.
James Mulvenon, a Chinese army expert at the Rand research organization, said he also was approached by Chinese emissaries.
"They walk in with the same message."
"The goal for China would be to cause maximum impact in Taiwan without bringing in the United States," he said.
Mulvenon told The Washington Post. "We're going to do something. We can't tell you what, but we're going to do something.
He said any military action against Taiwan would have a ruinous impact on China's efforts to build relations with the outside world, including the United States and European countries.
Meanwhile, an administration representative denied news accounts that China warned the Clinton administration about possible military action against Taiwan.
"We have not received any threats or ultimatums from the Chinese," said National Security Council representative David Leavy at the White House.
The Post said the White House thought it's unlikely that Beijing would launch any military action before October to avoid spoiling a meeting next month between Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin in New Zealand.
White House officials said military action could range from striking Taiwan to seizing an unpopulated island belonging to Taiwan.
"I don't think they'll do it soon, but I can't say they won't do it at all," said a senior administrator.
The newspapers said the warnings had come from lower-ranking Chinese officials and not from China's top leaders. The lower-level officials may have been gauging how the United States might respond, or may have hoped the Clinton administration would urge Taiwan to
"Both sides recognize the danger in the situation. Our policy is the same—it's one China."
David Leavy
back down, the reports said.
"Obviously we're watching the situation closely, and we have been in touch with both sides on a number of occasions over the last several weeks," Leavy said. "Both sides recognize the danger in the situation. Our policy is the same — it's one China."
National Security Council representative
back down, the reports said.
For more than a week, military aircraft from China and Taiwan have been flying over the 100-mile-wide straits separating Taiwan and the mainland. The opposing planes have not tangled, but Leavy said the United States is urging both sides to back off.
China has considered Taiwan a rogue province for 50 years, since Nationalist forces retreated to the island in defeat after battling Communist forces on the mainland. China has refused to renounce violence to force Taiwan back under full mainland control.
"These are how accidents happen, and we've made that clear." Leavy said.
The situation has grown more tense since Taiwan's recent assertions that it should be treated as China's equal.
War of words intensifies between Serbian leaders
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Ratcheting up the rhetoric, a senior government official said yesterday that opposition's leaders are "terrorists" and accused them of planning to kill officials loyal to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
The remarks by Mirko Marjanovic, the prime minister of Serbia and a close aide to Milosevic, were directed against the Alliance for Change, which is leading demonstrations calling for Milosevic to step down. Serbia is Yugoslavia's main republic.
The United States favors eventual reunification so long as it is carried out by peaceful means.
The Associated Press
In a statement, Marjanovic said opposition leaders want to physically liquidate and kill those who think differently. He also accused opposition leaders of collaborating with NATO, which waged a 78-day bombing campaign to force Milosevic to accept a peace plan for Kosovo.
"So we stand informed that the Alliance is a terrorist organization." Mirko Marjanovic Serbian prime minister
Marjanovic cited a speech at an anti-Milosevic rally Thursday, in which Alliance activist Vesna Pesic warned that the Yugoslav people may use the Romanian method, if the president refuses to step down. The remark referred to the bloody 1989 uprising in which Romanian dictator Nicolae Causescu was executed.
"So we stand informed that the Alliance is a terrorist organization," Marjanovic said.
Zoran Zivkovic, a member of the Democratic party, said at a protest yesterday that the opposition will give Milosevic a deadline to resign. If he refuses, Zivkovic said: "We will take the matter in our hands
A statement by the Democratic Party, which is part of the Alliance, said Marjanovic certainly knows what terrorism is because he has terrorized Serbian people for eight years while premier.
and make him do that by force, by people's will.
The rally in Trstenik, about 90 miles southeast of Belgrade, was attended by about 1,000 supporters. Alliance leaders also spoke in nearby Krusevac to an enthusiastic crowd of several thousand people.
With the backing of the influential Serbian Orthodox Church, the Alliance plans a huge central protest in the capital Belgrade on Thursday.
The Aug. 19 rally was called a shameful kissing up to President Clinton, whose birthday is that day, claimed Zivorad Djordjevic, chief editor of the state-run Borba daily and a Milosevic ally.
The opposition leaders want to prove their utmost loyalty to Clinton, Djordjevic wrote in a commentary for Monday's edition.
Several opposition leaders rejected the notion that there was a connection with Clinton's birthday.
The former commander of the Yugoslav Army, who now supports the opposition, said there was no chance Milosevic could successfully use federal troops to crack down on political opponents.
Gen. Momcilo Perisic, in an interview aired late Saturday on Belgrade's Studio B Television, was commenting on recent threats by current Army commanders. Perisic said a majority of officers and soldiers would refuse to follow orders to attack opposition members.
Military says Iraqi targets hit in no-fly zones
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. warplanes attacked several sites in Iraq yesterday, wounding three people and destroying a mosque, the Iraqi armed forces said.
The U.S. military confirmed the strikes in the so-called no-fly zones, saying U.S. warplanes bombed an Iraqi radar site in the north in response to anti-aircraft fire.
The official Iraqi News Agency quoted the Iraqi military as saying one mosque was destroyed and three people injured in the attacks by nine evil ravens over the provinces of Dohuk, Irbil and Mosul.
The U.S. Air Force reported that F-15s dropped guided munitions on a radar site some 287 miles north of Baghdad, the German-based U.S. European Command said in a statement.
It said equipment at the radar facility was used to gather information and, in turn, to target planes. All the planes returned safely, the statement added.
In the south, a U.S. Air Force F-16, a U.S. Navy F-14 and a British GR-1 "Tornado" aircraft attacked four military targets in three locations, said a statement from the U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.
The planes struck a military communications site near Al Axnarah, a military radar site near Ash Shuaybah and a communications site and radar site in the vicinity of Tallil, the statement said. All the planes returned safely, the statement said.
The no-fly zones were established to protect Iraq's Kurdish and Shiite Muslim minorities. Iraq does not recognize the zones and has challenged the allied planes patrolling them since Dec. 28.
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