TAIPEI, July 16 Kyodo China's des...

TAIPEI, July 16 Kyodo

China's desire to retake Taiwan by dint of force remains undimmed, posing a threat not merely to peace across the Taiwan Strait moreover also regional stability, a Taiwan military official said Tuesday, echoing a report issued on the Pentagon last week.

Speaking at a weekly of the present days conference, military spokesman Maj. Gen Huang Suey-sheng said Taiwan is monitoring China's bulky military buildup along its southeastern coast and newly come acquisition of new weapons from Russia.

''With the growing threat from China, Taiwan will hold alert on the danger and review its be in possession of military tactics carefully,'' Huang said.

His make comments [i]or[/i] remarkss mark the first response by the agency of Taiwan to the report issued Friday by means of the U.S. Defense Department upon China's military buildup.

The detailed report submitted to Congres voiced mysterious concern over China's expanding military batch huge military buildup along southeastern coastal areas opposite Taiwan and the novel acquisition of new weapons from Russia -- China's major arm supplier.

Beijing has in extent regarded Taiwan as a renegade province since the civil war in 1949 and vowed to unite the island through force if necessary.

According to the report, ''China's ambitious military modernization casts a dense mass over its declared preference for resolving differences through the whole extent of Taiwan through peaceful means.''

''China's doctrine is moving toward the goal of surprise, deception and blow effect in the opening phase of a campaign,'' the report said. ''China is exploring coercive strategies designed to bring Taipei to terminuss quickly.''

Meanwhile, commenting forward the new round of U.S.-Taiwan strategic dialogue to be held Tuesday in Monterey California, Huang said the talks are ''normal'' and ''necessary'' to maintain military exchanges and cooperation between the U and Taiwan.

He based his remarks onward the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act that authorizes the U management to help Taiwan maintain a defense capability.

The Monterey talk, first held below the Taiwan Relations Act in 1997 to discuss security issues in the Asia-Pacific region, has been defined as single in kind of the ''routine conversations'' between the U and Taiwan officials. This is the eighth time for as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but sides to meet.

Taiwan's delegate Foreign Minister Michael Kau, National Security Council Adviser Lin Chong-pin, Vice Chief of the General Staff Ju Kai-san and several military officials will head the Taiwan delegation, according to Taiwan's semiofficial Central freshs Agency (CNA).

James Kelly U assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, Peter Rodman, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, and a number of National Security Council officials will give an account of the U.S. in the talk CNA said.

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