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 | A Taiwan Navy sailor aims a small caliber machine gun during maneuvers aboard a Knox class destroyer, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2004, outside of the southern port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. President Chen Shui-bian canceled live-fire military drills this month _ a move he said was a goodwill gesture aimed at easing tensions with rival China.The annual war games are usually televised and designed to assure the public that the military is ready to fend off a Chinese attack. click to open  |  | Taiwan Navy patrol boats maneuver around a Knox class destroyer, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2004, outside of the southern port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. President Chen Shui-bian canceled live-fire military drills this month - a move he said was a goodwill gesture aimed at easing tensions with rival China.The annual war games are usually televised and designed to assure the public that the military is ready to fend off a Chinese attack. click to open |  | Two F-16 fighter jets display their weapons at Taiwan's Hualien air base, August 17, 2004. Taiwan is holding its annual military drills, which culminate in major joint force exercises on August 25. Arch-foe China has successfully tested a new guided missile that it says is highly accurate, Chinese state media reported, amid simmering tensions with Taiwan. click to open |  | A missile is displayed in front of an F-16 fighter jet at Taiwan's Hualien air force base, August 17, 2004. Taiwan is holding its annual military drills, which culminate in major joint force exercises on August 25. Arch-foe China has successfully tested a new guided missile that it says is highly accurate, Chinese state media reported, amid simmering tensions with Taiwan. click to open |  | Taiwan air force crew members practice loading missiles at a drill at Hualien air force base, August 17, 2004. Taiwan is holding its annual war games, which culminate in major joint force exercises on August 25. Arch-foe China has successfully tested a new guided missile that it says is highly accurate, Chinese state media reported, amid simmering tensions with Taiwan. click to open |  | Seven F-16 fighter jets taxi on a runway at Taiwan's Hualien air force base, August 17, 2004. Taiwan is holding its annual military drills, which culminate in major joint force exercises on August 25. Arch-foe China has successfully tested a new guided missile that it says is highly accurate, Chinese state media reported, amid simmering tensions with Taiwan. click to open |  | An F-16 fighter jet takes off from Taiwan's Hualien air base in a military drill on August 17, 2004. Taiwan is holding its annual war games, which culminate in major joint force exercises on August 25. Arch-foe China has successfully tested a new guided missile that it says is highly accurate, Chinese state media reported, amid simmering tensions with Taiwan. click to open |  | Four F-16 fighter jets fly in formation during a military drill at Taiwan's Hualien air base, August 17, 2004. Taiwan is holding its annual war games, which culminate in major joint force exercises on August 25. Arch-foe China has successfully tested a new guided missile that it says is highly accurate, Chinese state media reported, amid simmering tensions with Taiwan. click to open |  | Hundreds of soldiers clean the strip of a Taiwan highway to make final preparations for test-landing by two Mirage fighter jets in Tainan on July 21, 2004. Two Mirage fighter jets touched down on Wednesday on a usually busy Taiwan highway -- the first time in 26 years -- as part of war games to test the island's combat readiness against any attack by arch-foe China. The drills by Taiwan, claimed by China and seen by security analysts as the most dangerous flashpoint in the Asia-Pacific, coincided with drills by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) on the island of Dongshan off China's southeastern coast. click to open |  | Workers re-fuel the tanks of two Mirage fighter jets after the planes landed on a Taiwan highway in Tainan on July 21, 2004. Two Mirage fighter jets touched down on Wednesday on a usually busy Taiwan highway -- the first time in 26 years -- as part of war games to test the island's combat readiness against any attack by arch-foe China. The drills by Taiwan, claimed by China and seen by security analysts as the most dangerous flash point in the Asia-Pacific, coincided with drills by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) on the island of Dongshan off China's southeastern coast. click to open |
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