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China lashes out at Bush remarks
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CHINA warned US President George W Bush that he was moving into dangerous area with his pledge that the US will do "whatever it takes" to defend Taiwan.
"It shows that the US side has drifted further on a dangerous road," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue told a routine news briefing yesterday afternoon.
"As to the comments made by President Bush, we have expressed that the Chinese Government and people are strongly indignant and opposed to them," she added.
On Wednesday, Bush said that the United States will do "whatever it takes" to defend Taiwan during an interview with ABC News.
However the president later clarified his comments in an interview with CNN and insisted there was no change in the US policy towards Taiwan.
Zhang pointed out that the US side is going even further on a dangerous road by making such erroneous remarks right after its announcement of selling the biggest ever batch of advanced weaponry to Taiwan.
Vice Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing on Wednesday urgently summoned US Ambassador Joseph W Prueher and lodged solemn representations and protest to the US Government on its proposed arms sales to Taiwan.(SD-Xinhua)
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