Xinhua reported on January 19, 2010, that China held 789.6 billion U.S. dollars in U.S. Treasuries at the end of November 2009, $9.3 billion less than it held in October. China is still the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury bonds.
Source: Xinhua, January 20, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2010-01/20/content_12839858.htm
On January 19 2010, the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security, both governments issued a joint statement “strengthening security and ensuring the alliance remains the anchor of regional stability.”
A survey conducted by the official paper Huanqiu shows that over 90% of Chinese netizens believe that the strengthened U.S.-Japan alliance constitutes a threat to China. A Chinese professor at the Japanese Research Center of Shanghai Jiaotong University said in an interview that the U.S.-Japan alliance is a military relationship, which has undergone several changes since 50 years ago. Today’s alliance is still a strategic prevention targeting China.
Source: Xinhua, January 20, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-01/20/content_12841641.htm
He Yafei, spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry prioritized three issues on China’s agenda for the United States. “This year both China and the United States need to cautiously and earnestly deal with issue of arms sales to Taiwan, the Dalai Lama, and economic and trade friction, particularly the United States. How to deal with these problems depends on whether or not political leaders, especially the United States government can muster the political determination.”
Source: Xinhua, January 22, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-01/22/content_12855052.htm
After the U.S. government approved the Lockheed-Martin sale of Patriotic air defense missiles to Taiwan, China denounced the deal. Obama’s “face change” two months after his successful China visit was due to a joint lobbying by the government, the Congress, the Pentagon and defense contractors.
Several key players were named as key promoters for the missile sale: Lockheed-Martin CEO Robert Stevens, Senator John McCain, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn, U.S.-Taiwan Business Council President Rupert Hmmond-Chambers and Taiwanese businessman Li Hua-Der.
The author believes that this deal triggered a red light to Sino-American relationship.
Source: International Herald Leader, January 18, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/herald/2010-01/18/content_12828519.htm
According to Xinhua, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu stated, at a regular press briefing on January 12, 2010, that China opposes the United States having any form of official exchange or contact with Taiwan.
Jiang made the remarks when asked to comment on Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou’s Honduras tour with a scheduled stopover in the United States. Jiang said, "We demand that the United States abide by the principles laid out in the three Sino-U.S. joint communiqués and properly deal with the related issue with caution."
Source: Xinhua, January 12, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2010-01/12/content_12797259.htm
Zhang Zhaozhong, a Chinese military expert, warns that the United States will inevitably get entangled in another war, although time and the enemy are yet unknown. “Obama came from the grassroots. During his campaign, accepting the honor to serve his country and now in office, he expressed many good points of view. Yet, I have never held any illusion about him. He is a well-educated person and a member of academia, so he can speak well and express his point of view quite well, but such thoughts cannot be those of a president. He can receive the Nobel Prize trophy for his personal philosophy but as president, he has to launch wars.
Zhang is a military theorist and commentator. He is a professor at the National Defense University, and of Rear Admiral rank.
Source: Xinhua, January 11, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-01/11/content_12790747.htm
According to Huanqiu.com, on January 10, 2010, Major General Luo Yuan, Deputy Secretary General of the Chinese Society of Military Science, told Hong Kong “Ta Kung Pao,” a pro CCP newspaper, that China should at least demand that the U.S. make specific commitments to reduce and eventually stop arms sales to Taiwan by finalizing a timetable and a road map.
If the U.S. ignores China’s demand, Lu Yuan said that China can
1. Interrupt Sino-U.S. military ties and organize official and non-governmental protests; or
2. Apply trade-related sanctions on the related U.S. companies;
3. Take corresponding non-cooperative strategies in the areas where the U.S. needs China’s cooperation and reserve the right to take further actions.
Source: Huanqiu.com., January 10, 2010
http://taiwan.huanqiu.com/news/2010-01/684289_2.html
Rear Admiral Yang Yi of the National Defense University’s Institute for Strategic Studies warns that China may retaliate in response to recent American arms sales to Taiwan. "Why can’t we be on the offensive against these trouble makers? In addition to lodging a protest with the U.S. government and taking the necessary measures, why can’t we impose sanctions on these ‘perpetrators?’ We want to inflict ‘heavy’ damage to the interests in China of those businesses and groups who offend the Chinese people. Let them suffer more economic losses here than gains from selling arms to Taiwan, so that the arms sales will not worth it." “Through our constant efforts, we can mold the policy choices of the United States; now is the time for us to set the rules for the United States.”
Source: China News Net, January 7, 2010
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2010/01-07/2058142.shtml