Taiwan missile test (2006)
- Taiwan missile test (2006)
Taiwan plans to test a cruise missile capable of hitting mainland China. They have produced three versions of this missile to be tested. The Hsiung Feng III missile has a range of 600 km, 360 mi, and it is accurate to within half of a meter. This has alarmed the island's main ally the United States.
The missile will be test-fired in September at a ceremony which Taiwan's president Chen Shui-bian will attend.
This would put Mainland China's southeast coast, from Fuzhou in Fujian Province to Nan'ao in Guangdong in mainland China, within range of the missile. Another source says that "it could strike as far south as Hong Kong and as far north as Shanghai," if deployed in different sites throughout Taiwan.
A spokeswoman for China's foreign ministry would not comment and a spokesman for their defense ministry, would not comment on this. A recent Pentagon report says that China has recently deployed up to 730 ballistic missile's aimed at Taiwan.
The United States, recognizes the People's Republic of China policy in which it is the only China, the People's Republic of China, also known as the one China policy. Even though this is true the United States is the main supplier of weapons to Taiwan and has expressed it's concern to the Republic of China's government, since it exceeds the 300 km limit.
Sources
[http://reuters.myway.com/article/20060706/2006-07-06T090829Z_01_TP235236_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-TAIWAN-CHINA-MISSILES-DC.html (Reuters)] [http://couriermail.news.com.au/story/0,20797,19710376-1702,00.html?from=rss (Agence France-Presse)]
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