Former U.S. official U.S. arms sales to Taiwan will become increasingly difficult to

 【Voice of America Web site Jan. 12 article】 Title: Former U.S. official: the red line in the United States arms sales to Taiwan more planning deeper

former White House officials said President Bush did not step down before approval to sell F-16C / D fighter is a big blunder, because the U.S. arms sales to China more and more draw the red line, the pressure on the United States increasing, the president of Taiwan to approve more and more difficult to sell.

in President George W. Bush in office as the National Security Council senior director for Asian affairs, said Greene, 12, Taiwan's F-16C / D fighters do have defense needs, the United States under the Law

current Washington think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, Green, senior adviser, in reply to the Voice of America on China's stealth fighter F -20 open, whether the make the U.S. more reason to sell F16C / D of said this when asked.

He said he strongly believes that President Bush should step down before the F-16C / D fighters included in the project to be within the approved arms sales to Taiwan, because he had enough political capital to bear China's pressure.

Green said: unfinished term when to do it, because at that time President Bush has enough political capital and the Chinese trust in him to do it. to expect Obama to do the beginning of his term this thing is not fair. / p>

He said Chinese pressure forced the administration told not to sell Taiwan F-16 at this time the right time, the hesitation but as concessions to China, the United States to China to make further requirements, the F-16C / D projects classified as red.

Green said: defined in the line, and we also allow China to F-16 as a red line, the extent of this red line has been more and more. access, in the arms sales to Taiwan, Gates and Beijing authorities still talk past each other.

Gates, 11, a round table at the Beijing press conference, he talks and Chinese leaders have repeatedly showed that U.S. China policy is based on the three Sino-US joint communiques, and his total time to add the He also said the Chinese side, the U.S. policy of arms sales to Taiwan will not change, if continued to improve cross-strait relations, Taiwan's security environment has changed, and perhaps create a future that the United States to re-examine the conditions of the problem, but it would be a long-term evolution process, not the short term will happen.

the Chinese government that the U.S. arms sales to damage China's core interests and detrimental to the development of bilateral military relations. Chinese Defense Minister Liang said, do not want to see US-China military exchanges have been hampered because of arms sales to Taiwan.

But Gates summed up his arms sales to Taiwan and China in the discussions on the issue, said occupied by the enemy. He and the other expressed their respective positions.