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v*r* ant essentially a dry run for
an operation to gain control of th#
air and seas around Taiwan, th*
lop U S military offir er said
Tuesday.
(km John Shaltkashvili alto
said a possibility mists that mi*
calculation by either side could
load to actual conflict
But Shalikashvtli. chairman of
th* Knot Chief* of Staff, told Th#
Associated Pr*** th# Chin#*#
operation, which began last week
with missile t**t firing*, wa*
"most probably designed to he
|u»t an ««nn# ”
Hour* tat«r. a U S guided mi*
sil# cruiser. ih* t?SS Bunker Hill,
steaming south of Taiwan, mon
tinted another Chinese missile
test into a landing zone south*
*«i of Taiwan The Bring of the
unarmed M o medium range mis
sile broke a four-day hiatus of
mtssil* launchings Last Friday,
the Chinese military launched
throe M M in test Bring* Those
missile* also carried no war
heads
At the White House,
spokesmen femes Fettig celled
the latest missile test ' reckless"
ami "provocative " He Mid Chi
na's government ha* told the
Untied States it intends to fire
several additional missiles dur
tog the course of the exercise.
"We expert them to continue
through the Taiwanese elec.lions
cm March 21. Fettig said He* xaid
President Clinton had been
informed of the new lest while
ale card Aif Force One en route to
the Middle Fast for a summit
meeting cm terrorism
Dressed in camouflage battle
fatigues .HhaUkathviii reviewed
military exercises by Marines at
Camp l.ejeune on Tuesday as
China's military launched war
games off Taiwan's coast, and the
island's government threatened
to destroy any attac kers
Shaltkashvili said the Chinese
are demonstrating the versatility
of their military by combining air.
*m and amphibious movements
Tt's a* uanpiex or ime* complex
than any they had done before,"
be Mid
He Mid they set demnastral
in* how they would "go through
the ti«|M of gaining air super*
ority and control of the seas .**
As the Chines* eswrlse* p»< it
up steam, the Pentagon is mount
ing an unmistakable show of
tort* hr adding a second ain rah
carrier last I* group to one aJrnariv
deployed off the coast cd Taiwan
Those are very important sig
nal* to the (Chinese that we hope
the situation will return bark to
normal very scam,” Khaltkashviit
said
The Chinese have told U S
official* that the United State*
tow nothing to fear from the mew
rises
A State Department spokesman
(ragged to differ
"You know we re concerned,
on one level — call it the macro
level — about the fact that these
evert lies are meant tor political
purpnsea. to intimidate Taiwan."
the State Department's Glyn
Davie* said
"Ton know, I mean, ordnance
tan go astray There's shipping
in that area, very important com
martial shipping. There are 21
million people on the island of
Taiwan We're very concerned,
obviously, that there be no acci
dents,”
{levies said U.S. officials were
trying to set up a meeting soon
between Secretary of State War
ren Christopher and China's for
eign minister. Qian Qkhen
At the Pentagon, Navy Cap I
Michael Douliieday described
what be called a "carefully
orchestrated" shifting of Navy
•hips in order to strengthen the
U S military presence near Tat
wan.
The nuclear powered carrier
USS Nimitx and Us accompany
mg battle group will cross the
Indian Ocean and join the carri
m USS Independent »> and its bat
tle group off Taiwan by nest
week Nimil* has btiwn on patrol
in the Persian Gulf
It* move toward Taiwan will
begin only after another carrier,
the USS George Washington,
move* from the Mediterranean
See through the Sue* Canal and
into the U S. Central (command's
area of operation*, the Persian
Gulf region.
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