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While wooing China, Brezhnev tried to exploit the growing rift between Peking and Washington over the Reagan Administration's decision to continue selling F-5E jet fighters to Taiwan. The Soviet Union, he stressed, did not have a "two Chinas" policy-in other words, unlike the U.S., it did not maintain ties to the island, which mainland China considers an integral part of its territory. Brezhnev's bid was part of a long-range effort to lure China away from its friendship with the U.S. Says Robert Jensen, professor of geography at Syracuse University: The Soviets "are having...
...serious issue to arise between the two countries is the question of the defense of Taiwan, and so far the matter remains dangerously unresolved. The latest trouble came to a head in January, when the Reagan Administration announced that it would continue to supply the Taiwan government with F-5E supersonic fighters. The Chinese argue that the U.S. should set a deadline for ending all arms transfers to Taiwan, or at least should demonstrate that it is beginning to curtail its support for an island that the Shanghai Communiqué treated as "a part of China...
...talks with the Chinese government, when the State Department announced that one of the key issues the Chinese wanted to discuss had already been resolved, unilaterally. Confronted with Taiwan's request to buy a U.S. fighter jet more sophisticated than its present model, Northrop's F-5E, and China's countervailing demand that all U.S. arms sales to Taiwan cease, the White House tried to split the difference. Taiwan could continue to get the F-5E, which it co-produces with Northrop, but could not have a successor plane, the F-5G, which can carry radar-guided...
...Carlucci and some associates to volunteer to take lie-detector tests to show they were not culpable. Even as the White House was considering new ways of dealing with the problem, word was beginning to leak about another sensitive matter: the Administration's decision to sell Taiwan F-5E fighter jets, rather than the more advanced model it had requested...
...mission was signed by Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and CIA Director William Casey and supported by General David Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Taiwan's current defense needs, they agreed, could be adequately served by additional sales of the F-5E fighter jet it now uses, rather than the new, more powerful F-5G it has been seeking.* The Poland crisis, and the desire for Peking's cooperation in the anti-Soviet propaganda drive, provided an opportunity for these advisers to convince the President that he should deny Taiwan...