7 Richard L. Armitage, 'A Comprehensive Approach to North Korea', Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington, No, 159, March 1999.
8 James Risen and Jeff Gerth, "China Stole Nuclear Secrets from Los Alamos, US Officials Claim", New York Times, 6 March 1996.
9 These relate mainly to the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty signed between the United States and the Soviet Union. A US Ballistic Missile Defense system (BMD), and TMD, will require modification of the ABM treaty. Both China and Russia oppose this.
10 This is a common pattern, of course. When he invaded Kuwait in 1990, Iraq's Saddam Hussein had not expected the US to intervene. The Argentine generals made the same error when they invaded the Falklands in 1982.
11 John W. Garver, Face Off： China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization, University of Washington Press, 1997, p.141.
12 John W. Garver, Face Off：, p.8
13 See Larry A. Niksch, 'The Senkaku (Diaoyu) Island Dispute： the US Legal Relationship and Obligation', Pacnet No 45, 8 November 1996.
