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- Date: 28 Dec 92 11:38 PST
- Subject: UNITED STATES: Bush to ship pending
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- Subject: UNITED STATES: Bush to ship pending
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- Title: UNITED STATES: Bush to ship pending arms to China
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- washington, dec 22 (ips) -- u.s. president george bush has decided
- to ship to china military equipment which had been frozen in jul.
- 1989 to protest beijing's crackdown on the ''pro-democracy
- movement'', the state department announced tuesday.
-
- the gesture, which covers sales made but not yet delivered to
- china, appeared to seal a process of gradual normalisation of ties
- with china since crackdown, which culminated in the killing of
- students in beijing's tienanmen square in jun. 1989.
-
- last week, bush ended a ban on the visit to china of u.s.
- cabinet-rank officials when he sent his commerce secretary,
- barbara franklin, to the chinese capital.
-
- a brief statement released by the state department at the end
- of the day tuesday said bush decided it was ''in our national
- interest'' to close out four cases of suspended sales.
-
- it said these include an avionics upgrade for chinese f-8
- warplanes, equipment for a munitions production line, four anti-
- submarine torpedoes, and two artillery-locating radar systems.
-
- the statement stressed that all the equipment will be delivered
- ''as is, with no follow-on support, repairs, maintenance, or
- training by the u.s''.
-
- it said the united states has ''no plans for new arms sales to
- china'', and that the four programmes affected by the u.s. protest
- ''were suspended to demonstrate our deep concern about the tragic
- events in the country. we have made our point.
-
- ''we now believe that continuing to hold aging items after a
- three-and-a-half-year suspension hinders rather than helps u.s.
- efforts to promote cooperative (chinese) behaviour in a range of
- areas.''
-
- washington and beijing continue to have major differences on
- the latter's human rights record and china's alleged export of
- advanced arms and nuclear facilities to predominantly muslim
- countries in the middle east and south asia, especially iran and
- pakistan.
-
- u.s. allies japan and several european countries have fully
- normalised their ties with china during the past year, and bush, a
- former envoy to beijing, has been anxious to put u.s. relations on
- an even keel.
-
- president-elect bill clinton attacked bush for ''coddling''
- beijing's hardline leaders during the campaign for the november
- presidential election and vowed a tougher policy after he takes
- office jan. 20. (end/ips/jl/yjc/92)
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