A Belize has newspaper criticized the Chinese Communist missile threat and urged Beijing to dismantle 400 missiles targeting Taiwan.
The Belize Times Weekly said in an Oct. 28 article entitled Threatening Taiwan with 400 Missiles that given the current international security situation, cooperation in combating international terrorism and in preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction is the main issue.
"While the international community is dedicated to combating terrorism, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has deployed 400 missiles along its southeast coast aimed at Taiwan," the article said.
China fired missiles into waters off Taiwan in July, 1995 to protest former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui's (
Beijing fired four missiles in waters off harbors in northern and southern Taiwan in March, 1996 in the hopes of influencing through terror the first-ever direct election for president in Taiwan's history, it added.
China has deployed 400 ballistic missiles along its southeast coast opposite Taiwan and the number of these threatening missiles is growing at a rate of 50 to 100 per year, the article said.
The European Parliament passed a resolution on Sept. 5 of this year urging China to dismantle all the missiles targeting Taiwan, the article emphasized, stressing that this is the demonstration of the determination of the civilized world to uphold the values of democracy and freedom.
The article concluded that if the free world tolerates the missile threat against Taiwan by China today, the fear faced by Taiwanese people today will become the fear faced by the whole world tomorrow.
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