UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 13, 1996
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U.S. ships incense China
The Associated Press
TAIPEI, Taiwan — With more sharp words for the United States, China launched war games yesterday southwest of Taiwan, drawing a Taiwanese threat to strike back if the mock warfare turns into an attack.
But both sides seemed eager not to escalate the rhetoric. The Chinese Foreign Ministry's remarks were multilateral and the
latively resrained, and the Taiwanese military denied newspaper stories alleging Chinese violations of Taiwanese airspace.
Taiwanese police said they had completed an island-wide cleanup of bomb shelters, and residents of Taipei, the capital, were urged to clear their basements, which double as shelters but never have been used for that purpose.
The military said that China had deployed warships and staged bombing runs on the first day of the eight-day exercise that has rattled Asia and drawn in the U.S. Navy.
China says it will fire live ammunition during the exercises, but the Taiwanese did not say whether any already was being used.
The exercise, following the test-tiring of three missiles close to Taiwan on Friday, is part of a Chinese campaign to subdue what it sees as a drive toward independence by Taiwan.
Taiwan is the seat of Nationalists
"We will by no means provoke any warfare,but if we are provoked and attacked,we must relentlessly
destroy our enemy."
Gen. Lo Pen-HI Taiwan's military chief
who fled the communist takeover of China in 1949. It has not declared itself separate from China, but Beijing fears it is headed in that direction.
The U.S. naval battle group led by the aircraft carrier USS Independence is within about 100 miles of Taiwan. The U.S. contingent is outside the Taiwan Straits, which separate China and Taiwan.
encouragement from the approach of American warships.
Hours after the exercise began, China accused the United States of convincing with Taiwanese separatists who, it suggested, might draw
Foreign Ministry spokesman Shen Guofang cited Washington's sale of weapons to Taiwan and the visa it gave Taiwan's president, Lee Tenghui, to visit the United States last June.
"All of these wrongful acts serve to support and connive with Taiwanese separatist activities, and they constitute an important element of volatility in Chinese-U.S. relations," he said at a news conference.
The United States says the fleet is there to observe and be helpful. U.S. officials are calling China's behavior reckless, but they are insisting the region is not on the brink of war.
But Taiwan's military chief of staff gave his troops a pep talk when he visited them on islands facing China.
"We will by no means provoke any warfare, but if we are provoked and attacked, we must relentlessly destroy our enemy. We will by no means be softhearted or weak-handed," Gen. Lo Pen-li said on the island of Quemoy.
A Taiwanese military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the 400,000-member military was on heightened alert, especially on the islands that face the exercise area.
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