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Re: А какая...
>Что-то я вообще ничего в новостях не слышал, по этому поводу.
А вот с Фри-Репаблик: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3af23fec1635.htm
China says Bush seeks global military supremacy
Foreign Affairs News Keywords: CHINA, MISSLE DEFENSE
Source: Muzi News
Published: 2001-5-4 Author: MUZI
Posted on 05/03/2001 22:36:44 PDT by Typhoon
BEIJING - China said on Friday U.S. President George W. Bush's plans for a national missile defence (NMD) shield appeared aimed at establishing "absolute military supremacy" in the world.
Pursuit of that aim would "break the present fragile global security equilibrium," the China Daily was quoted by Reuters as saying in a commentary.
It repeated China's warnings that changing or abrogating the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, as Bush must do if the NMD is to become a reality, risked sparking an arms race "and encourage proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."
"The United States, already the world's only superpower, is apparently attempting to seek absolute military supremacy and even greater global hegemony," it said.
Deploying an NMD "will trigger a new arms race in the international arena and destroy what has been achieved so far with international disarmament efforts," it said.
The commentary accused the United States of considering itself above the law.
"To make way for the U.S. missile plan, the U.S. president did not hesitate to trample on an international treaty. Uncle Sam has more than once ignored international laws and principles in the pursuit of its own interests," it said.
"In fact, the Bush administration's behaviour in the past 100 days has illustrated that an ultra-self-centered 'America first' attitude is gaining more ground in U.S. foreign policy," it said.
"The United States seems to be pushing the world back into the Cold War era by seeking military confrontation rather than solving disputes through negotiations," the commentary said.
"The United States is taking a dangerous course."
China, which fears a similar theatre missile defence (TMD) shield planned for Asia would cover arch rival Taiwan, has seen its relations with the United States become considerably more tense in the first 100 days of the Bush administration.
A standoff over a U.S. spy plane held in China, U.S. promises of arms sales to Taiwan and Bush's pledges to defend the island Beijing sees as a rogue province which must be re-united with the mainland have all contributed to the tension.
Bush called on Tuesday for the ABM treaty to be replaced to allow the United States to deploy an NMD system to shield it from missile attacks by hostile states.
"Such an excuse is too fragile to convince others," the China Daily commentary said. "It hasn't even convinced the American people."
It was the latest of several scathing attacks on Bush in China's state-run media.
On Thursday, the People's Daily, the Communist Party mouthpiece, said in an apparent refence to Bush's slim election victory that he appeared to be trying to "cast off the shadow of 'the weak president."'
"His excessive acts and words over the China-U.S. plane collision and arms sales to Taiwan are all connected to this state of mind," the newspaper said.
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