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THE CHINA MAIĆ, FEBRUARY 8, 1989. · ·

American Shipments Of Arms To China And Japan

San Francisco.

Arms shipments from the United States to the Far East, including both China and Japan, are fall- ing off at a very heavy rate, the Institute of Pacific Relations reports.

This is attributed to two general causes.

In the case of China, the shipments have de- clined owing to the fact that the Japanese have cut off practically all of the available lines of communi- cations. In the case of Japan, however, the decline Victoria is attributed to:

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Air-conditioned equipment on C.P.R. Trans-Continental Trains. Frequent Canadian Pacific Atlantic sailings to Buropean ports.

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G. FALCONER & CO. (HONG KONG LTD.)

WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS, 4

DIAMOND MERCHANTS,

UNION BUILDING (opposite G.P.O.)

Agents for:-ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS' BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE Direct from Manufacturers,

High Class English Jewellery

1. Pressure brought to bear on the state department' against the further shipment of airplanes to Japan, while at the same time the demand for American aircraft by other foreign countries so exceeds the production possibilities of the American manufacturers that the latter can afford to be "choosey" in their markets, and thus drop the Japanese field, and,

2. Japanese difficulty in getting sufficient foreign exchange for pur- chases in this country. CHINA PURCHASES IRREGULAR

NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO CHINA

Paris, February 1, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet received to-day the new French ambassador to China, M. Henry Cosme, who is leaving shortly to take up his post.- Havas.

This was revealed in one of the

The granting of export licenses to China, the Institute reports, fixe shown a very irregular course for the greater part of the year. The high point was reached in April press conferences of State Secre- of 1938, when export licenses to tary Cordell Hull when he stated China reached a total of $2,527,161. that the administration was being There followed two months with pressed to stop the shipment of air- drops to $532,298 and $1,236,000, craft to all countries where the after which there was a drop to

civilian population was being bomb- $164,698 and $122,488 for July and

ed.. August, respectively. Figures for September and October show first It is pointed out that when an a jump to $706,135 and then at American manufacturer · really slump to $1,949, which vírtually wants to ship airplanes to Japan means a disappearance of armis ex and insists on his rights, he can port licenses to China.

still get an export license, but with However, the recent granting by the European countries swamping the United States of a credit of the American plants with orders: $25,000,000 to China, ́principally that will take years to fill, it is not for the purchase of automobile worth the trouble to the manufac- trucks that will probably be used turers to insist on being permitted largely in maintaining lines of com- to supply Japan.

here.

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munication from British Burma and Only two of the first seven from the Soviet, may see a revi-months of 1988 showed export li- val in the purchase of arms from censes in arms to Japan of less than

$1,000,000, two of them approach-- ing the $2,000,000 mark. But, be- In the case of Japan, the Insti-ginning with August, the export li- tute believes, the falling off in censes fell greatly from $1,125,499

the export from

United for July to $179,249 in August. States has been due largely to the This decline was continued in Sep- · pressure brought to bear on the tember and October when the total state department, especially in the amount of the licenses for each matter of aircraft.

month was $78,720 and $85,188, res-- pectively.

arms

INDO-CHINA

DECLINE STARTS IN SEPTEMBER-

The September orders were for airplane parts rather than for air-- craft, while October orders were

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ammunition therefor. But even here, the Institute states, there was noticeable decline over similar pur- chases for June, July and August. The Institute points out that the compilation of arms export licenses issued on exports to China and Ja- pan during the first 10 months of the year show an interesting pic- ture as 'regards the claims that the American policy has been to Ja- pan's advantage.

For the January-October period of 1988, American arms exports to China totalled $7,760,360, while for the same period those to Japan to-- taled $9,019,458.

However, it is pointed out that If the recent trend downward of arms shipments to the two coun- tries continues, the question of which is the most favoured nation "will"be a ̈purély academic one.