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| Taiwan to test-fire missile: report |
| 2006-07-06 |
| Taiwan plans to test-fire a missile capable of hitting China, alarming the island's main ally, the United States, a cable news network said on Thursday. The Hsiung Feng III, developed by Taiwan's Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology, has a range of 600 km (360 miles) and is accurate to within half a meter, the online edition of cable news network ETTV (http://www.ettoday.com) said, quoting unnamed military sources. That range would put areas along China's coast from Fuzhou in Fujian Province to Nan'ao in Guangdong within striking distance of the missile, the Web site said. A defense ministry spokesman declined to comment on the report when reached by telephone. A spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry also declined to comment. China, which has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since their split in 1949 at the end of the Chinese civil war, has deployed nearly 800 short-range ballistic missiles aimed at the self-ruled island in case it formally declares independence. Taiwan successfully test-fired the missile last year, local media have reported, and the Web site said the next test was planned for September. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #8 Do we have to remind Beijing that Tokyo has a fully functional satellite program and nuclear power industry? The Japanese M-5 series solid-fuel satellite booster seems to have been designed to be easily convertible to a weapon, should the need ever arise. |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-07-06 17:00 |
| #7 Knowing that Koizumi (sp?) went to Graceland last week, anyone wanna open the pot that he (in full-haired glory) will be announcing "testing" plans soon, too? Ya know, in honor of "the King?" |
| Posted by: BA 2006-07-06 13:59 |
| #6 Bravo to the Taiwanese. It will be hilarious to see the mainlanders talk out of both sides of their mouths saying that Taiwan should be defenseless on one hand, but that it's perfectly fine for the Norks to fire missiles off like fireworks on the other. Of course, they and the wormy worms of Russia will have no problem being utterly two-faced, being so practiced at it. Discreetly, the US is laughing about this, because they can now act pious and very modestly deplore what the Taiwanese are doing, in China and Russia's face. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-07-06 10:48 |
| #5 Just a little reminder to China we can let our chain dog go too. I think Japan should be whispering aloud about going Nuclear. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2006-07-06 10:17 |
| #4 Do we have to remind Beijing that Tokyo has a fully functional satellite program and nuclear power industry? Do we need to remind them that Japan's smaller population base provided sufficient manpower and capability to keep themselves occupying the prosperous portion of the Chinese mainland [and it took the American's war effort to get them out]? You think one day, the minds in Beijing will understand that the US was just as much their protector as a competitor? Keep playing that inscrutable game and they will. |
| Posted by: Ebbavitle Omomotle4723 2006-07-06 08:52 |
| #3 A little warning to China get a hold of your lapdog or you won't like the results. |
| Posted by: djohn66 2006-07-06 07:56 |
| #2 Is this a bug or a feature? I'm thinking "feature." |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-07-06 07:32 |
| #1 Taiwanese. They're harder to control than Koreans. And what grinds. All they study here is physics. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-07-06 07:22 |