Taiwan Says China Setting Out Legal Basis to Attack
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Taiwan condemned China&#39;s proposed anti-secession law on Saturday, calling it a move to establish a legal basis to attack the island.
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China has accused Taiwan Premier Yu Shyi-kun of clamouring for war with threats to fire missiles at Shanghai if the People&#39;s Liberation Army (PLA) attacks the self-ruled island.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said on  Monday he will make an important policy statement in his  National Day address on Oct. 10 that aims to soothe tense  relations with arch-foe China.
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The head of U.S. forces in the Pacific pushed China on Tuesday for more transparency over its military build-up and suggested its growing might was aimed at Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its territory.
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Taipei, Dec. 18 (CNA) The lead stories in major Taiwan dailies on Saturday are as follows: @The China Times: China to enact anti-secession law.
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Recent comments by President Chen Shui-bian on the sensitive issue of Taiwan's name revealed his intention to steer the island toward independence, a Chinese government spokesman said.
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Taiwan Premier Yu Shyi-kun accused  arch-foe China of sending surveillance ships into Taiwan and  Japanese waters to prepare for a possible confrontation with  the United States, newspapers said on Monday.
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China accuses Taiwan's president of being a "criminal" after he makes a strongly pro-independence speech.
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China plans to enact an anti-secession law, the government said Friday, in a move apparently aimed at promoting Beijing's campaign to pressure Taiwan into uniting with the mainland.
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China is determined and has the ability  to crush any attempt by Taiwan to declare independence,  Communist Party chief Hu Jintao said on Sunday amid tensions  with the self-ruled island over which Beijing claims  sovereignty.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI  - China's military will crush any  major moves toward independence by Taiwan, a Beijing government  policy paper said on Monday, prompting the self-governing  island to accuse Beijing of escalating tensions.
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A number of European countries have expressed understanding of Taiwan's stance against China's planned anti-secession law, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Michel Kau ( ^ Z) told reporters in Berlin on Tuesday.
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XIAMEN, China  - When Huang Xu was a young soldier in an artillery unit on the Chinese coast in the late 1980s, war with Taiwan always seemed imminent.
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TAIPEI - Taiwan is considering establishing a new defence system that could utilise weapons with offensive capabilities which would be employed only to deter a Chinese attack, Cabinet spokesman Chen Chi-mai said.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian said on  Tuesday China now had 1,328 ballistic missiles aimed at the  self-ruled island, up by more than a third from a previous  estimate, further threatening stability in the Taiwan Strait.
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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian (é³æ°´æ) said yesterday a controversial arms deal was part of the government&#39;s attempts to deter any attempt by rival China to invade the island.
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Taiwan has condemned a plan by China to draft an anti-secession law, describing it as a move to establish a legal basis to attack the island.