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Chen: Chinese Short Range Missile Threat at 706 and Climbing

February 2, 2005 :: Reuters :: News

Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian recently delivered a speech reporting that the number of Chinese short range missiles deployed off the coast of Taiwan has now reached 706. The last number reported by Taiwan’s defense minister was 600, but Vice President Lu in August of 2004 claimed that China would reach 800 ballistic missiles deployed by 2005. U.S. intelligence reports have put China’s rate of increase in missiles deployed per year at 75, but if the steady reports from top Taiwanese officials are accurate, the actual rate is considerably more.
        “I urge China to join the ranks of democratic-loving and peaceful Pacific nations and give up using military force to threaten neighboring countries,” Chen said in a speech on Monday to the parliament of the Solomon Islands. (Article)

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