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Shortly after concluding its naval war games with South Korea in the waters off
the west coast of the Korean Peninsula this week, the US sent the carrier
USGeorge Washington to Japan to participate in another joint military exercise.
Analysts say this move can serve only to worsen the tense situation on the
divided peninsula and threaten regional stability.
US Major William
Vause, chief of operational plans, training and exercises, said in a statement
that the drills, codenamed "Keen Sword," will last from today to December 10 in
Japanese waters off its southern islands, close to the southern coast of South
Korea.
The drills involve around 34,000 Japanese defense personnel with
40 warships and 250 aircraft, as well as more than 10,000 of their US
counterparts with 20 warships and 150 aircraft, forming the biggest-ever war
games between the two countries, according to Vause.
Integrated air and
missile defense, base security, close air support, live-fire training, maritime
defense, and search and rescue will be covered in the drills, AFP
reported.
The joint maneuvers between Washington and Tokyo followed those
between Washington and Seoul that concluded Wednesday amid rising tensions on
the Korean Peninsula.
The two Koreas exchanged fire last week in waters
off the peninsula's west coast, resulting in at least four deaths.
A
Beijing-based military strategist who spoke on condition of anonymity told the
Global Times Thursdaythat "North Korea's hard-line moves are attempts to
pressure the US into holding bilateral talks. Pyongyang is confident that it can
keep the situation from evolving into war. China's influence is limited in the
face of such an independent North Korea."
Responding to the US-Japan
joint exercise, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Jiang Yu said
Thursdaythat "the US-Japan alliance should not damage the interests of third
parties, including China, and the international community does not support
actions that escalate tensions."
She reiterated Beijing's belief that
dialogue and negotiations are the only solutions for the Korean Peninsula
issue.
The joint maneuver between the US and South Korea mobilized a
combined 7,300 troops, the 97,000-ton aircraft carrier George Washington and
about 10 navy ships.
In an interview with the Hong Kong-based Phoenix
Television, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the
military drills with South Korea had been planned a month ahead of time, and the
US had informed China of their objective and how long the drills would
last.
China had expressed objections to the drills, saying it was opposed to such
military activity in its exclusive economic zone.
But Mullen reiterated
the US' stance that the drills were held in international waters, and the US
will continue to hold drills there in the future.
In another development,
South Korea moved more troops and guns onto its islands that border the North
this week, AFP reported Thursday.
"The danger of further attacks from
North Korea is high," South Korean National Intelligence Service Director Won
Sei-Hoon said during a closed session of Parliament's intelligence committee,
reports said.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to meet with
the foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan in Washington on Monday for
crisis talks, Reuters reported Wednesday.
South Korea, Japan and the US
are reportedly reluctant to accept proposals, made by China on Sunday, to hold
emergency consultations in Beijing early this month to ease
tensions.
China followed up that proposal by calling on Wednesday for
calm and restraint, advising parties involved to avoid escalating the problem by
doing anything that would "inflame the situation."
Fang Xiuyu, an analyst
of Korean issues at Fudan University in Shanghai, told the Global Times that
protecting South Korea and Japan are just excuses made by the US to expand its
presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
Geng Xin, deputy director of the
Tokyo-based Japan-China Communication Institute, told the Global Times that
"frequent military drills involving the US are dangerous - inflaming the
situation and threatening regional security."
He urged the US to act
responsibly by accepting China's call for international talks.
Geng also
noted that "economic relations among China, Japan and South Korea are unlikely
to be affected, despite the war games, since the framework for economic
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In 2005, the Ministry of Transport unveiled an expressway plan to link Beijing
with Taipei before 2030.
But the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State
Council claimed in 2007 that at least 30 years would be needed for the
Beijing-Taipei expressway project and there has not been any timetable set for
launching the program.
"Thirty years ago, nobody could have imagined
building a bridge across the Straits," said Tsai Chung-chih, a Taiwan
engineering expert.
Engineers from both sides of the Straits have
provided three plans for building a cross-Straits bridge: a northern route
connecting Pingtan to Hsinchu, a middle route connecting Putian to Taichung and
a southern route connecting Xiamen to Kaohsiung.
But Lin said the north
route is preferred as the water is less than 80 meters deep and the geological
structure is quite steady with less risk of earthquake.
There may be more than one way to skin a cat, and for engineers in Fujian
province there is more than one way to build a bridge across the Taiwan Straits.
While experts from both sides have provided three viable ways to create
a land link between the island and the mainland, engineer Lin Yuanpei with the
Chinese Academy of Engineering on Tuesday revealed an updated design for a
northern route.
The bridge would stretch about 100 km, connecting
Pingtan Island in Fujian and Hsinchu in northwestern Taiwan.
The new
design features an enclosed bridge deck to allow the bridge to remain open in
all weather conditions, including the heavy fog and strong gales that are common
in the Straits.
"It's like a tunnel hanging in the air," said Lin, who
also designed the 32.5-km Donghai Bridge in Shanghai, which was the longest
cross-sea bridge in the world until the 36-km Hangzhou Bay Bridge opened in
2008.
"The cost will increase for adding the walls and roofs, but the
traffic capacity will skyrocket," said Lin, who did not provide any specifics
about the cost.
He suggested a suspension bridge style be adopted where
the water is deeper than 40 meters but the suspension sections would not be
longer than 3.5 km.
Li Dejin, director of the Fujian Provincial
Department of Transport, said engineering experts have been discussing the
bridge project for 14 years.
"I hope all the scientists and industry
associations can work together and promote the implementation of the project,"
Li said at the 12th annual meeting of the China Association for Science and
Technology held in Fuzhou.
Engineers on the mainland are expected to
complete a plan for building a bridge across the Straits in the coming five
years, Li said on Tuesday.
There has been no response yet from Beijing
on the latest proposal and the bridge project has not received official
approval.
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He said by releasing the stamp sets, Jingdezhen hoped to spread interest in
traditional Chinese ceramic art and the Shanghai Expo.
Jingdezhen has a
history of producing quality pottery going back 1,700 years. The 2010 China
Jingdezhen International Ceramic Fair is being held from Oct. 18 to Oct. 22.
The world's first set of ceramic stamps -- 11 pieces of 0.3 mm thick ceramic
chips -- was unveiled in Jingdezhen in east China's Jiangxi province, a
spokesperson with the China National Philatelic Corporation said
Tuesday.
The company will release only 10,000 limited edition sets of the
"World Expo National Ceramic Stamp", made with Chinese traditional craftsmanship
and modern techniques, the spokesperson added.h The patterns of the ceramic
stamps are based on 11 World Expo-themed stamps released by China since 2007.
Different from paper stamps, these stamps, it is claimed, will not fade, corrode
or catch fire.
All the ceramic stamps are hand-made. Each 0.3 millimeter
ceramic chip uses a combination of patented ceramic technology, traditional
craftsmanship and modern techniques.
"Each of these ceramic stamps is
unique in the world. It overcomes the limitation of paper stamps and shows the
world the creativity of Jingdezhen as the ceramic capital of China in modern
times," said Liu Jingbo, director of the Jingdezhen Municipal Philatelic
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China wants to quell tensions with the United States through quiet talk, not
shouting matches, a top Chinese foreign policy advisor told two leading White
House advisers on Tuesday, The Reuters reported.
Chinese officials made
the conciliatory public comments in meetings with the U.S. National Economic
Council Director, Larry Summers, and Deputy National Security Adviser Thomas
Donilon. Both were in Beijing for consultations.
The two countries are
drawn together by economic and diplomatic interests, but this year has brought
bouts of friction over China’s currency policy, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and
U.S. military drills and naval activities near China’s border.
"Quiet
and in-depth dialogue is better than loud haranguing," State Councilor Dai
Bingguo told Summers and Donilon, in remarks made in the presence of reporters
on Tuesday.
"At present, in no other relationship between countries is it
more important to enhance dialogue, strengthen mutual confidence and expand and
develop cooperation than it is between China and the United States," Dai said.
Summers and Donilon also took an upbeat public tone. Summers told
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan Monday that President Barack Obama "has
emphasized for us the importance he attaches to a very strong relationship
between the United States and China and to President Hu's upcoming visit to the
United States."
The conciliatory comments from Chinese officials
indicated that Beijing wants to keep friction in check, even if deep differences
over economic issues and regional disputes remain, The Reuters report
said.
"There is strong inter-dependence and complementarity between the
Chinese and U.S. economies," Chinese Vice-Premier Wang told Summers and Donilon
on Monday, Chinese newspapers reported." China-U.S. relations are developing in
a generally healthy way."
Neither side has said what issues are being
discussed during the two days of talks. Summers's discussions with China's top
central banker, Zhou Xiao-chuan, and other policy-makers are likely to include
currency and trade issues.
In another sign that Beijing may be seeking to
calm tensions, one of those military officers called for "avoiding friction and
seeking bases for cooperation."
"Solving the bilateral conflicts between
China and the United States can rely only on dialogue, and not confrontation,"
Major General Luo Yuan wrote in the Chinese magazine, Outlook Weekly. "Dialogue
is better than taking aim at each other," Luo wrote.
China on Tuesday summoned the Japanese envoy to protest Japan's interception of
a Chinese fishing boat in waters off the Diaoyu Islands.
Vice-Foreign
Minister Song Tao summoned Japanese ambassador to China Niwa Uichiro to "lodge
solemn representations", the Xinhua News Agency reported.
Earlier in the
day, two Japanese patrol boats collided with the Chinese trawler.
Song
urged the Japanese patrol boats to stop their illegal interception of Chinese
fishing boats on the East China Sea.
The protest came after a ministry
spokeswoman expressed "grave concern" over the collision.
Jiang Yu,
speaking at a regular news briefing, urged Japan to stop its so-called law
enforcement in waters off the islands and refrain from taking any action that
would threaten the security of Chinese fishing boats and their crew.
"We
have lodged solemn representations with the Japanese side," Jiang said, adding,
"we will closely follow the situation and reserve our right to take further
action".
The Diaoyu Islands and its adjacent islets have been Chinese
territory since ancient times, Jiang reiterated.
The incident occurred
when three Japanese patrol boats stopped a Chinese trawler claiming it was
operating illegally near the islands before ordering it to leave the area,
according to Japan's Mainichi Daily News.
The Chinese
trawler's bow hit the 1,349-ton Yonakuni's stern at around 9:15 am in waters
some 12 km north-northwest of Huangweiyu islet, and again collided with another
Japanese patrol boat, Mizuki, 40 minutes later, Mainichi Daily News reported,
citing the Japan Coast Guard (JCG).
Nobody was hurt from either vessel,
and no fuel leaks had been reported.
Six Japanese investigators boarded
the Chinese ship after it stopped and questioned the crew, according to the
newspaper.
The Chinese ship then left the area, a Japanese embassy
official, who refused to be named, told China Daily.
But the Kyodo News
Agency reported the JCG had announced an arrest warrant for the Chinese captain
for what they described as disturbing law enforcement.
What actually
happened remained sketchy, with Phoenix TV quoting Wu Tianzhu, the owner of the
trawler as saying that his 37-meter vessel did not hit the Japanese patrol
boats, which were much larger in size.
Some Chinese experts expressed
concern over the impact of the incident on bilateral relations.
"The
collision is an accident, but considering Japan's recent moves in waters near
China, we should take the incident seriously," said Wang Ping, a researcher at
the Institute of Japan Studies affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences.
Disputes in the East China Sea between the two countries have
attracted public attention recently.
In late August, Tokyo decided to
"nationalize" 25 scattered islets next March, including the Diaoyu Islands,
according to the Nikkei News.
Days before the decision, Tokyo and
Washington announced a plan to hold a joint naval drill near Okinawa and other
southern islands in December, Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
Wang said
he believed that besides domestic political reasons, the attitude that Japan had
been displaying recently could be in line with the US strategic planning on
security.
"The US is challenging the existing strategic and mutually
beneficial relationship between China and Japan, which is already lacking mutual
trust," Wang said.
However, Liu Jiangyong, a senior scholar on Japan
studies at Tsinghua University, said the incident should be treated
calmly.
He said Japan is scheduled to release a new defense plan by the
end of this year. The right wing in Japan needs tension between the two
countries to justify their military requirements.
Wang Chenyan
contributed to this story.