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| Thursday, 30 September 2004 |
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China slams Taiwan threat to attack Shanghai BEIJING, Wednesday (Reuters) In an escalating war of words, China denounced Taiwan Premier Yu Shyi-kun on Wednesday for threatening to fire missiles at Shanghai if the People's Liberation Army (PLA) attacks the self-ruled island. Last week, Yu defended plans to buy T$610.8 billion (US$18.2 billion) worth of weapons from the United States, saying Taiwan would hit China's financial centre, Shanghai, with missiles if the PLA attacked the island's capital, Taipei, and the southern city of Kaohsiung. Many security analysts see the Taiwan Strait as the most dangerous flashpoint in Asia. China claims sovereignty over Taiwan and has threatened to attack the democratic island of 23 million if it formally declares independence. "Recently, Yu Shyi-kun raised a hullabaloo about missiles being used to attack Shanghai," Li Weiyi, spokesman for the policymaking Taiwan Affairs Office, told a news conference. "This kind of war-provoking action thoroughly exposes the Taiwan authorities' attempt to seek independence through arms and its nature of 'faking peace while truly seeking independence'." |
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