Beijing Feb.18 --  China has protested against the US Central Intelligence Agency's warning that China's military modernization is tilting the balance of power across the Taiwan Strait. 

    Foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan told the regular Thursday press conference that China is strongly against the US's irresponsible act:

    "The US warning has severely violated the conventions of international relations and the three Sino-US Joint Communiques. It sings a different tune compared with the long-standing One China Policy. US has outrageously interfered with Chinese internal affairs and sent a false signal to the advocates of ¡®Taiwan independence' ".

    Delivering the agency's annual assessment of worldwide threats on Wednesday, Porter Goss, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency dropped any mention of the co-operative elements of the US-China relationship that characterised recent CIA statements. Instead, he warned that China was making determined military and diplomatic expansion.

    Kong Quan has demanded that the US not to do anything to damage Sino-US relations:

    "We call for the US to adhere to the One-China Policy against Taiwan independence. We hope the US will do more to promote China-US relations and maintain peace across the Taiwan Strait."

    (Source: CRIENGLISH.com)