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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070614/wl_asia_afp/uschinamilitary


Informant: Kev Hall

US fears over China long-range missiles", ran The Financial Times' front page headline last week and an eight column spread rammed the message home, that Washington is becoming worried that China is deploying mobile land and sea-base missiles that have the range to hit the US.

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=58827



Chinese military build-up purely defensive'

China's military build-up is purely defensive, the deputy chief of the world's biggest standing army said on Saturday, amid US concerns over Beijing's intentions.

http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=58922


From Information Clearing House

The same top Bush administration neoconservatives who leap-frogged Washington's foreign policy establishment to topple Saddam Hussein nearly pulled off a similar coup in US-China relations - creating the potential of a nuclear war over Taiwan, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell says.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060307Y.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Wilkerson

Auf dem Strategic Economic Dialogue stehen die chinesisch-amerikanischen Handelsbeziehungen zur Debatte, US-Parlamentarier drängen auf Handelssanktionen gegen China.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25348/1.html

China has come in for heavy criticism from members of the US House of Representatives with one congressman labelling the country a "Frankenstein" created by the US that now threatens American interests.

http://snipurl.com/1jdmq


From Information Clearing House

Last year, when the U.S. Treasury debt increased by $184 billion, almost half of that amount - $87 billion, or 47 percent of the total - was provided by lenders in China, according to U.S. government statistics.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/13/news/wbmarket14.php


From Information Clearing House

The dragon twitched. The dragon, which is China, twitches every so often, and when it does, ears prick up across the world of trade and finance. Dragons can, as you know, breathe fire when they choose to, and should the Chinese dragon emit a plume or two of smoke.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070219/howl


From Information Clearing House

How can you link anti-terrorism with a particular religion?" Ye asked in a commentary headlined "Bush should reflect deeply".

http://snipurl.com/18keb


From Information Clearing House

China testete Antisatellitenwaffe

Der vermutlich erfolgte Abschuss eines Wettersatelliten mit einer Rakete fordert den Anspruch der USA auf die Hoheit im Weltall heraus - oder soll die USA dazu bewegen, endlich ein Abkommen über ein Verbot der Weltraumaufrüstung zu unterstützen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/24/24478/1.html

Morris County Daily Record

01/18/07

The United States criticized China on Thursday for conducting an anti-satellite weapons test in which an old Chinese weather satellite was destroyed by a missile. The Bush administration has kept a lid on the test for a week as it weighs its significance. Analysts said China’s weather satellites would travel at about the same altitude as U.S. spy satellites, so the test represented an indirect threat to U.S. defense systems...

http://tinyurl.com/yrom6w


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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China Tests Anti-Satellite Weapon, Unnerving US

China successfully carried out its first test of an anti-satellite weapon last week, signaling its resolve to play a major role in military space activities and bringing expressions of concern from Washington and other capitals, the Bush administration said Thursday. Only two nations - Russia and the United States - have previously destroyed spacecraft in anti-satellite tests, most recently the United States in the mid 1980s.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011907P.shtml

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China Shows Assertiveness in Weapons Test

China’s apparent success in destroying one of its own orbiting satellites with a ballistic missile signals that its rising military intends to contest American supremacy in space, a realm many here consider increasingly crucial to national security.

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070120/ZNYT03/701200476



Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites

China has secretly fired powerful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites by "blinding" their sensitive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/26/wchina226.xml


From Information Clearing House