No change in cross-strait military tensions, CIA says

By Charles Snyder
STAFF REPORTER IN WASHINGTON
Thursday, Mar 11, 2004,Page 1

Bob Yang, the leader of a Taiwanese-American group seeking support for the referendum

US intelligence has not yet detected any military moves by China to try to influence Taiwan's presidential election, CIA Director George Tenet says.

But despite the lack of any publicly-released information on Chinese military activity, the role of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk as a potential monitor and deterrent to a military threat by China remains uncertain less than two weeks before the election.

Tenet, appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the committee that with respect to the security situation in the Taiwan Strait as the election approaches, "there are no movements by Chinese military forces nor preparations for exercises to attempt to influence events in Taiwan."

He did not give details or elaborate.

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