- Note from sender: Hope you all caught Skousen's latest
World Affairs Brief: QUOTE: "US Show of force in Far East set for
mid-summer. Chinese military sources have discovered that the US is planning
on bringing seven aircraft carrier strike groups to the Taiwan Strait in
mid summer as a massive show of force aimed at China.
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- This information was first reported on Sina.com, an influential
Chinese website:
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- "The US plan to do this after mid-July, in the Pacific
Ocean near China [as part of operation Summer Pulse 04], is a message to
Beijing for its threat to use force to stop Taiwanese independence."
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- Top Chinese Official To Moscow For Military
Cooperation Talks
- 7-3-4
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- MOSCOW (AFP) Guo Boxiong,
deputy chairman of China's central military commission, will visit Moscow
on July 5 to discuss military cooperation between Moscow and Beijing, Russia's
defense ministry said Saturday. He will meet with Russian Defense Minister
Sergei Ivanov during his stay, the Interfax news agency quoted a ministry
statement as saying.
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- "The parties will exchange opinions on the most
pressing problems of international relations, particularly those affecting
security in the Asia-Pacific region," the statement said.
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- China with India is a principal customer for Russian
arms, but most of the contracts until now have concerned aircraft, boats,
submarines and munitions.
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- China in 2002 accounted for more than 2.5 billion dollars
(about two billion euros) worth of orders, more than half of Russia's export
contracts signed that year, totalling 4.8 billion dollars.
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- Russian-Chinese defense cooperation gained momentum in
the 1990s after Western nations imposed an embargo in response to the Tiananmen
Square events of 1989.
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- The cooperation was cemented in 2000 at a summit meeting
between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin.
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- In December, Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan visited
Russia as part of Beijing's efforst to increase transfers of Russian military
technology and reduce arms deliveries from Russia.
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- http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040703101829.86ifmu81.html
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