Taiwan Says China Forming Legal Basis to Attack
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Taiwan condemned China&#39;s plan to draft an anti-secession law, describing it Saturday as a move to establish a legal basis to attack the self-ruling, democratic island that Beijing claims as a province.
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China submitted a draft law on Saturday  it says is aimed at peaceful reunification with Taiwan, but  which the island's residents and the United States fear could  ratchet up tensions across the Strait.
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BEIJING: China will enact a law against secession, the legislative leadership announced Friday, in a move which analysts said is aimed at preventing rival Taiwan from formally declaring independence.
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China has issued a national defence policy to crush &quot;the vicious rise&quot; of Taiwan independence forces at its core. It is the first time such a policy has been issued since President Hu Jintao became military chief.
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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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Armed conflict may be unavoidable if  Taiwan keeps provoking China and pushing for independence, one  of Beijing's top Taiwan policy-makers said on Monday, but he  spelt out a condition for reopening dialogue.
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Armed conflict will be unavoidable if  Taiwan keeps provoking China and pushing for independence, one  of Beijing's top Taiwan policymakers said on Monday, but he  spelt out a condition for reopening dialogue.
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Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian has reiterated his pledges to push for a new constitution and United Nations membership, moves that are likely to anger China.
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China accuses Taiwan of "serious provocation" after the island's premier said it should be allowed offensive missiles.
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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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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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Taiwan is considering applying to join  the United Nations under the island's own name, a move that  China would see as a provocative declaration of independence by  a renegade province.
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Analysts say the move could legally bind the Communist Party leadership to follow through on its long-standing threat to attack Taiwan if the island formally declares independence.
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Taiwan, over the strong protests of China, is seeking to buy more than $400 million worth of missiles and parts from the United States to bolster its air defenses.
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Taiwan angrily denounced a proposed anti-secession law being considered in Beijing. Officials in Taipei say the new law could provide mainland China with a legal pretext for a military assault on Taiwan.
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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.