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China to begin military exercises Saturday

US stance unclear to defend Taiwan if attacked
WASHINGTON. Feb 7 The Clinton administration Is unwilling to state flatly that it would defend Taiwan if the island were attacked by Chi na. Defence Secretary Willi am Perry said Tuesday, reports AP.
Perry said he is concerned but not alarmed that China is using "military maneuvering" to try to influence Taiwan s democratic presidential elec tion March 23.
Asked what the United States would do if China threatened to attack. Perry said he could not be more specific than the commitment spelled out in the Tai wan Relations Act. That doc ument. the basis of the unof ficial US relations, with Tai wan. says belligerent actions meant to determine the fu ture of the island 120 miles (190 kilometres) off China's southeastern coast would be "of grave concern" to the United States.
Perry said Chinese officials asked Joseph Nye. then the assistant secretary of defence for international security affairs. during a visit to Beijing last November how Washing ton would respond if Taiwan were threatened.
Nye answered. Perry said "We don’t know what we would do. because it's going to depend on the circum stances, and you don't know what we would do "
Meanwhile. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister U Zhaoxlng was in Washington for talks with US officials State Department spokesman Glyn Davies described the talks with trade, diplomatic and military officials as routine, covering a wide range of is sues
He said meetings with the Chinese officials at the State Department covered issues such as human rights. Korea. Japan, global and regional security. and Taiwan
We agreed to build on the positive meeting* that the president and vice president had with Chinese President Jiang Zemin last fall In New York and at Osaka. And we agreed to expand cooperation wherever possible. Davies said
AFP from Hong Kong says China will begin week long large-scale military exercises from Saturday in Fujian, its coastal province closest to Taiwan, it was reported in Hong Kong Wednesday
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) will begin joint air. naval and armed forces drills along the Fujian coast after midnight Friday, mobil ising between 50.000 and 60.000 troops, the independent Chinese-language Miing Pao Dally quoted authoritative sources as saying.
Another AFP reports say. US President Bill Clinton an nounced Tuesday the lifting of sanctions blocking the sale
of satellites to China that were imposed following the Tianamen Square massacre in 1989
The four satellites are for communications purposes and will in no way contribute to China's military capacity, an administration official said
Washington, along with many western countries froze a wide range of exchanges with China after the June 4 massacre in which hundreds of pro democracy demonstrators were killed by Peoples Liberation Army troops around Beijing's cen tral square
The lifting of the sanctions. announced by Clinton in a letter to the US Congress. was described by the official as a purely commercial decision-though it coincides with the vi*it to Washington of China s vice foreign minis ter U Zhaoxlng