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Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:57:34 PM
The Navy is conducting an internal study in which between nine and 11 attack submarines potentially would be stationed off Guam, including the three already based there. But a final decision is not expected for more than a year, Walsh said.
Reflecting on the battle lines China is drawing in the Pacific, while nothing is yet written in stone Kiribati seems out of the dragon’s reach. Media reports indicate that the recently dismantled site on Kiribati may have also been used to monitor the U.S. missile range at Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. However Nauru which is closer to Guam and the Marshall Islands and has been caught in a long-running diplomatic tug-of-war between China and Taiwan is strengthening bonds with China. Difficult to get stuff on these islands and could not find anything on a Nauru tracking station.
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Nauru strengthens bonds with China by accepting loan of US$2.4 million
STAFF WRITER , WITH AGENCIES
Saturday, Oct 04, 2003,Page 4
Nauru, the South Pacific state that broke diplomatic relations with Taiwan last year, has accepted a loan worth about US$2.4 million from China.
Nauru President Rene Harris said yesterday his impoverished country of 12,000 people had accepted the interest-free loan to help support unspecified economic and technical projects between the two countries.
Nauru has been caught in a long-running diplomatic tug-of-war between China and Taiwan, which previous Nauru presidents had chosen to recognize in exchange for loans worth millions of dollars.
"This agreement demonstrates the strengthening of the friendly relations as well as economic and technical cooperation between Nauru and China," Harris said in a statement released in Australia.
"The agreement has come at a crucial time for the Republic of Nauru and my government is grateful for China's recognition of development opportunities in this country," he said.
Nauru closed its embassy in Beijing in August, sparking fears it might be about to re-establish diplomatic ties with Taiwan. It later said the mission was closed for economic reasons.
Nauru switched its recognition to Beijing from Taipei in August last year.
Nauru, a tiny 21km2 island pockmarked by the ravages of phosphate mining, is reliant on foreign aid and is also renowned for its constant changes in leadership.
Harris returned to power in August, the fourth change of government this year.
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs declined to comment on the loan.
A ministry spokesman said the ministry is still not clear about the diplomatic move between China and Nauru.
The spokesman said the ministry would not respond to the move unless its counterpart in China made comments on the monetary aid.
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:X3yRKA7e6S0J:www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2003/10/0....
China, Nauru Sign Joint Communique on Establishing Diplomatic Relations
2003/11/24
The government of the People's Republic of China and the government of the Republic of Nauru signed a joint communique Sunday on the establishment of diplomatic relations.
The People's Republic of China and the Republic of Nauru established diplomatic relations on July 21,2002, according to a press release issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry Sunday.
Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Zhou Wenzhong and Nauru President Rene Harris, on behalf of the two governments, signed Sunday in Hong Kong a joint communique on the establishment of diplomatic relations.
The communique says China and Nauru "have decided upon mutual recognition and the establishment of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level as from 21 July 2002."
Nauru has decided to sever its "diplomatic relations" with Taiwan as of July 21 of 2002, according to the communique, pledging that it "shall not have official relations of any form with Taiwan."
Its says Nauru recognizes that "there is but one China in the world", that "the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China" and that "Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory".
Nauru has decided to abrogate all "inter-state", "inter-governmental" and other official agreements signed with Taiwan andensure mutual close-down of "embassies" or "consulates" and other official agencies and withdrawal of "embassy" or "consular" and other official staff within a month, the communique says.
China supports the efforts made by Nauru to safeguard its national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity and develop its national economy, according to the communique.
The two also agree to develop friendly relations between the two countries based on the principle of peaceful coexistence, the communique says, adding that they will provide necessary assistance for the establishment and performance of functions of diplomatic missions in their respective capitals.
"The normalization of relations between China and Nauru conforms to the fundamental interests of the Chinese people and Nauruan people, and will open up broad prospects for furthering friendly and cooperative ties of mutual benefit between the two," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan said.
Both China and Nauru are developing countries and they share identical points in many fields, Kong said.
China is willing to make concerted efforts with Nauru to establish and develop long-term, steady, sincere, friendly, all-around and cooperative relations with Nauru, Kong said.
Nauru is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, covering an area of 24 square km with a population of some 10,000. It established "diplomatic relations" with Taiwan in 1985.
Chinese FM spokesman hails establishment of diplomatic ties between China, Nauru
The normalization of relations between China and Nauru conforms to the fundamental interests of the Chinese people and Nauruan people, and will open up broad prospects for furthering friendly and cooperative ties of mutual benefit between the two.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan made the remarks while congratulating on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Nauru.
Both China and Nauru are developing countries and they share identical points in many fields, Kong said.
China is willing to make concerted efforts with Nauru to establish and develop long-term, steady, sincere, friendly, all-around and cooperative relations with Nauru, Kong said.
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Uf8CfQzwl1oJ:www.chinaembassy.org.au/eng/jmhz/t46222.htm+nauru+....
South Tarawa Island, Republic of Kiribati
References
In order to support the piloted space program, China increased the number of fixed ground tracking, telemetry and command stations within China territory from 5 to 6. In addition, two new overseas tracking stations were built in the Pacific, on South Tarawa Island of the Republic of Kiribati and at Swakopmund, Namibia, Africa. China Satellite Launch and Tracking Control General [CLTC] manages China's launch facilities and it tracks and controls all China's domestic satellites through a control centre and a TT&C network, which consists of ground stations located all over China and one ground station in the South Tarawa Island of the Republic of Kiribati. CLTC also manages mobile stations and ships for TT&C.
The “China Space TT and C Station”, opened in 1997, is on a back road on Bikenibeu islet, near Tarawa’s airport. Responding to local concerns, in September 1999 Chinese officials opened their space telemetry tracking and command station on Tarawa atoll in Kiribati to inspection. The station in recent months had aroused local suspicion that it may really be intended to monitor the major US missile range at Kwajalein in the adjacent Marshall Islands. The inspection party included towns-people from Belio, the Kiribati seat of government, and the local members of parliament. The team reportedly entered all the buildings on the site and later said that the visit had cleared up any concerns.
The China Space Telemetry Tracking Station is fenced off and its dozens of workers live in a secure compound. When an AFP reporter was able to go inside the base in 1999 its satellite dishes were aligned northward toward Kwajalein. Inside there is a substantial two storey dormitory, currently occupied by three men but capable of many more. The station has a large power station with four generators -- enough electricity for most of Tarawa. There are two large satellite dishes mounted on military trailers with cables run into permanently parked buses in garages.
Kiribati is a key space location. Japan is developing Kiritimati (Christmas) as a space shuttle landing base. In international waters just south of Kiritimati the giant Sea Launch company operating out of California launches commercial satellites using a converted deep-sea oil platform.
China said its base is an innocent part of its civilian space program. But the government of President Teburoro Tito refused to release details of its discussions with Beijing and the details of the 15-year lease. In October 2002 the station become an election issue, leaving political opponents an open season on speculation over its real role.
Kiribati’s 96,000 Micronesian people inhabit 21 of 33 islands spread across the equator. The economy is dependent on fishing and fishing licence revenue, copra, seaweed exports, foreign aid and income from a national investment fund.
On 29 November 2003, China severed diplomatic relations with the Pacific island of Kiribati, following a decision three weeks earlier by President Anote Tong’s government to formally recognized Taiwan as a country. Three days prior, China verbally threatened to break ties with Kiribati, along with physical warnings of its seriousness by quickly dismantling its satellite tracking base, withdrawing its doctors from the medical facility, and halting construction on a sports stadium. China had previously claimed the importance of the tracking station, one of three Chinese stations overseas, that played a big role in its first manned space mission. Media reports indicate that the site may have also been used to monitor the U.S. missile range at Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. After the diplomatic break, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. reported that “the loss of diplomatic relations will not affect the country’s space missions or the launch of the Shenzhou VI” and a new facility could be built in the region.
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:e458CwPfOysJ:www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/china/kiribati.....
Reflecting on the battle lines China is drawing in the Pacific, while nothing is yet written in stone Kiribati seems out of the dragon’s reach. Media reports indicate that the recently dismantled site on Kiribati may have also been used to monitor the U.S. missile range at Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. However Nauru which is closer to Guam and the Marshall Islands and has been caught in a long-running diplomatic tug-of-war between China and Taiwan is strengthening bonds with China. Difficult to get stuff on these islands and could not find anything on a Nauru tracking station.
#msg-4465523
-Am
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Nauru strengthens bonds with China by accepting loan of US$2.4 million
STAFF WRITER , WITH AGENCIES
Saturday, Oct 04, 2003,Page 4
Nauru, the South Pacific state that broke diplomatic relations with Taiwan last year, has accepted a loan worth about US$2.4 million from China.
Nauru President Rene Harris said yesterday his impoverished country of 12,000 people had accepted the interest-free loan to help support unspecified economic and technical projects between the two countries.
Nauru has been caught in a long-running diplomatic tug-of-war between China and Taiwan, which previous Nauru presidents had chosen to recognize in exchange for loans worth millions of dollars.
"This agreement demonstrates the strengthening of the friendly relations as well as economic and technical cooperation between Nauru and China," Harris said in a statement released in Australia.
"The agreement has come at a crucial time for the Republic of Nauru and my government is grateful for China's recognition of development opportunities in this country," he said.
Nauru closed its embassy in Beijing in August, sparking fears it might be about to re-establish diplomatic ties with Taiwan. It later said the mission was closed for economic reasons.
Nauru switched its recognition to Beijing from Taipei in August last year.
Nauru, a tiny 21km2 island pockmarked by the ravages of phosphate mining, is reliant on foreign aid and is also renowned for its constant changes in leadership.
Harris returned to power in August, the fourth change of government this year.
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs declined to comment on the loan.
A ministry spokesman said the ministry is still not clear about the diplomatic move between China and Nauru.
The spokesman said the ministry would not respond to the move unless its counterpart in China made comments on the monetary aid.
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:X3yRKA7e6S0J:www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2003/10/0....
China, Nauru Sign Joint Communique on Establishing Diplomatic Relations
2003/11/24
The government of the People's Republic of China and the government of the Republic of Nauru signed a joint communique Sunday on the establishment of diplomatic relations.
The People's Republic of China and the Republic of Nauru established diplomatic relations on July 21,2002, according to a press release issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry Sunday.
Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Zhou Wenzhong and Nauru President Rene Harris, on behalf of the two governments, signed Sunday in Hong Kong a joint communique on the establishment of diplomatic relations.
The communique says China and Nauru "have decided upon mutual recognition and the establishment of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level as from 21 July 2002."
Nauru has decided to sever its "diplomatic relations" with Taiwan as of July 21 of 2002, according to the communique, pledging that it "shall not have official relations of any form with Taiwan."
Its says Nauru recognizes that "there is but one China in the world", that "the government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China" and that "Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory".
Nauru has decided to abrogate all "inter-state", "inter-governmental" and other official agreements signed with Taiwan andensure mutual close-down of "embassies" or "consulates" and other official agencies and withdrawal of "embassy" or "consular" and other official staff within a month, the communique says.
China supports the efforts made by Nauru to safeguard its national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity and develop its national economy, according to the communique.
The two also agree to develop friendly relations between the two countries based on the principle of peaceful coexistence, the communique says, adding that they will provide necessary assistance for the establishment and performance of functions of diplomatic missions in their respective capitals.
"The normalization of relations between China and Nauru conforms to the fundamental interests of the Chinese people and Nauruan people, and will open up broad prospects for furthering friendly and cooperative ties of mutual benefit between the two," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan said.
Both China and Nauru are developing countries and they share identical points in many fields, Kong said.
China is willing to make concerted efforts with Nauru to establish and develop long-term, steady, sincere, friendly, all-around and cooperative relations with Nauru, Kong said.
Nauru is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, covering an area of 24 square km with a population of some 10,000. It established "diplomatic relations" with Taiwan in 1985.
Chinese FM spokesman hails establishment of diplomatic ties between China, Nauru
The normalization of relations between China and Nauru conforms to the fundamental interests of the Chinese people and Nauruan people, and will open up broad prospects for furthering friendly and cooperative ties of mutual benefit between the two.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan made the remarks while congratulating on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Nauru.
Both China and Nauru are developing countries and they share identical points in many fields, Kong said.
China is willing to make concerted efforts with Nauru to establish and develop long-term, steady, sincere, friendly, all-around and cooperative relations with Nauru, Kong said.
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Uf8CfQzwl1oJ:www.chinaembassy.org.au/eng/jmhz/t46222.htm+nauru+....
South Tarawa Island, Republic of Kiribati
References
In order to support the piloted space program, China increased the number of fixed ground tracking, telemetry and command stations within China territory from 5 to 6. In addition, two new overseas tracking stations were built in the Pacific, on South Tarawa Island of the Republic of Kiribati and at Swakopmund, Namibia, Africa. China Satellite Launch and Tracking Control General [CLTC] manages China's launch facilities and it tracks and controls all China's domestic satellites through a control centre and a TT&C network, which consists of ground stations located all over China and one ground station in the South Tarawa Island of the Republic of Kiribati. CLTC also manages mobile stations and ships for TT&C.
The “China Space TT and C Station”, opened in 1997, is on a back road on Bikenibeu islet, near Tarawa’s airport. Responding to local concerns, in September 1999 Chinese officials opened their space telemetry tracking and command station on Tarawa atoll in Kiribati to inspection. The station in recent months had aroused local suspicion that it may really be intended to monitor the major US missile range at Kwajalein in the adjacent Marshall Islands. The inspection party included towns-people from Belio, the Kiribati seat of government, and the local members of parliament. The team reportedly entered all the buildings on the site and later said that the visit had cleared up any concerns.
The China Space Telemetry Tracking Station is fenced off and its dozens of workers live in a secure compound. When an AFP reporter was able to go inside the base in 1999 its satellite dishes were aligned northward toward Kwajalein. Inside there is a substantial two storey dormitory, currently occupied by three men but capable of many more. The station has a large power station with four generators -- enough electricity for most of Tarawa. There are two large satellite dishes mounted on military trailers with cables run into permanently parked buses in garages.
Kiribati is a key space location. Japan is developing Kiritimati (Christmas) as a space shuttle landing base. In international waters just south of Kiritimati the giant Sea Launch company operating out of California launches commercial satellites using a converted deep-sea oil platform.
China said its base is an innocent part of its civilian space program. But the government of President Teburoro Tito refused to release details of its discussions with Beijing and the details of the 15-year lease. In October 2002 the station become an election issue, leaving political opponents an open season on speculation over its real role.
Kiribati’s 96,000 Micronesian people inhabit 21 of 33 islands spread across the equator. The economy is dependent on fishing and fishing licence revenue, copra, seaweed exports, foreign aid and income from a national investment fund.
On 29 November 2003, China severed diplomatic relations with the Pacific island of Kiribati, following a decision three weeks earlier by President Anote Tong’s government to formally recognized Taiwan as a country. Three days prior, China verbally threatened to break ties with Kiribati, along with physical warnings of its seriousness by quickly dismantling its satellite tracking base, withdrawing its doctors from the medical facility, and halting construction on a sports stadium. China had previously claimed the importance of the tracking station, one of three Chinese stations overseas, that played a big role in its first manned space mission. Media reports indicate that the site may have also been used to monitor the U.S. missile range at Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands. After the diplomatic break, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. reported that “the loss of diplomatic relations will not affect the country’s space missions or the launch of the Shenzhou VI” and a new facility could be built in the region.
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:e458CwPfOysJ:www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/china/kiribati.....
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