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Taiwan Readies Cruise Missile to Deter Beijing

October 6, 2004 :: East Asia Intel :: News

Taiwan is reading a test launch of a new land atttack cruise missile, designed to help deter Chinese aggression against the island nation by offering a potential retaliation agaisnt targets such as Shanghai, reports East Asia Intel. The cruise missile has a reported range of 900 km. The missile could offer some limited balance to the 600 or more short-range ballistic missiles which China has already deployed off the coast of Taiwan.
        Li Weiyi, spokesman for Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office, reacted angrily to the reported missile: “This kind of belligerent provocation has exposed that the Taiwan authorities are not really for peace but for Taiwan independence.”  (Article)

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