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CHINA INFERS HAWAI`I NOT PART OF U.S.

New York Times - October 11, 2010

BEIJING — US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates met his Chinese counterpart, Liang Guanglie, in Vietnam on Monday for the first time since the two militaries suspended talks with each other last winter, calling for the two countries to prevent “mistrust, miscalculations and mistakes...."

“...Why do you sell arms to Taiwan? We don’t sell arms to Hawai`i,” said Col. Liu Mingfu, a China National Defense University professor and author of “The China Dream,” a nationalistic call to succeed the United States as the world’s leading power....