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...that airplane was the data we had collected earlier that day," says Norman Polmar, an independent Navy expert. "That would tell them which of their systems is vulnerable to interception?Are we able to intercept telephone conversations from Chinese naval headquarters to ships? Are we able to intercept radar transmissions at certain frequencies??that's what the Chinese want to know...
...give China credit for new policies designed to reach out to Washington. In November, China agreed to control its missile exports, but Bush condemned it for selling a communications cable to Iraq. In January, China adopted a less threatening policy toward Taiwan; Bush still might sell Aegis air-defense radar to the island. If he does, "relations with the U.S. could worsen permanently, and Jiang will lose the greatest pillar of his legitimacy," says an Asian diplomat in Beijing. Last month China dispatched foreign policy mandarin Qian Qichen to Washington to patch up relations; Bush chose to receive Japan...
...scheduled to decide which new weapons to sell to Taiwan. The sales are ticklish every year, but never more so than now, when a new Administration wants to underscore its distance from China and an independence-minded Taiwan is bidding for the Navy's most advanced antimissile radar system...
China adamantly opposes letting Taiwan buy four guided-missile destroyers equipped with Aegis radar that can sound an alarm the millisecond a Chinese M-9 missile is fired from the mainland, 100 miles away. Beijing fears the new systems would give the island a military edge, whereas Taiwan says the Aegis would merely even the score against the 300 mainland missiles aimed at it. Beijing is also worried that the radar could eventually allow Taiwan to link up with Washington's regional defense shield. "Of all the arms the U.S. could sell, Aegis is the worst," says China's chief...
China's leaders are vulnerable at a number of pressure points. They are trying to persuade Washington to spurn Taiwan's requests for an advanced antimissile radar system and are desperately trying to win this July's vote by the International Olympic Committee for China to be host to the 2008 Summer Games. Gao's lawyer, Jerome Cohen, therefore holds out hope. "When a dispute gets to that level, intelligent leaders won't want to damage themselves over a nothing case," he says. China may also be particularly sensitive now, as news broke last week of the defection in December...