Thanks for pinging that here!
AFP , BEIJING
Monday, Jul 12, 2004,Page 3
China is getting edgy over a new US military strategy aimed at projecting force around the globe and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice's visit last week was an attempt to calm Beijing down, analysts said.
Rice's trip on Thursday and Friday came as the US military was rolling out an unprecedented deployment of naval power to the Pacific Ocean in what is officially being termed a military exercise, they said.
"It is an unprecedented show of force and a return to gunboat diplomacy," said Andrew Tam, a security expert at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore.
"The US is sending the message that any threat to peace and stability in Northeast Asia will not be tolerated.
"It is a signal to North Korea, but particularly to the Chinese. The carrier groups are sent as an affirmation of the US support of the status quo in the Taiwan Strait and the current status of Taiwan," Tam said.
The US Navy announced last month that three aircraft carrier battle groups were already in the Pacific and four others were being deployed for the war games called "Summer Pulse 2004."
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Didn't see this posted, sorry if it is a repeat.
Good...I was thinking if something goes down we might think it is AQ when it is these people. If they are stupid enough to go to these extreems then I predict that at a time when we are going be thinking "Terroist Attack" then these people are likely to find themselves 6 feet under. And I for one -won't be feeling sorry for them.