SECRETARY OF DEFENSE OF CHINA:  AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE
SYSTEM BECOMES CONFIDENCE BETWEEN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
UNDERMINING








PEKING, 2 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent
Alexander Isajew /. a national anti-missile defense system, which the
USA plan to unfold, will undermine the mutual confidence between
different states and will exercise a negative effect on the world
peace.  The avowed in Peking of the Secretaries of Defense of the VRCh
Chi Haotian with the receipt of the director/conductor of the office
for defense of Australia Peter Wright come to an official attendance
to China.

" if the plans for the creation of the American national anti-missile
defense system will come off, then that the strategic force balance
undermined and most probably a new round of the arms race to release
", underlined Chi Haotian.  " under these conditions China can not
approve of the plans of Washington ", referred it.

During the negotiations Chi Haotian and Peter Wright treated also
questions of the development of contacts between armed forces of China
and Australia, the situation in the asiatic-Pacific region and the
Taiwan topic.

Chi Haotian explained the fact that China for peaceful reunification
of China and Taiwan due to the principle " a country - occurs two
systems ".  At the same time, the Secretary of Defense of the VRCh
added, is China decided gesinnt to permit " independence Taiwans " not
and to prevent any " separatist activity " of the island.