美国总统小布什已经决定了今年对台军售的武器清单,备受瞩目的安装有宙斯盾防御系统的“伯克级”驱逐舰不在其中。但是,这笔军火交易数额惊人,有可能是近10年美国对台军售最大的一次,其中包括4艘“基德”级驱逐舰。中国军事观察家分析认为:美国正在利用大陆“不放弃武力”的统一决心,和台湾“以武力死保台独”的强硬立场,在二者之间挑动一场军备竞赛,最终使自己——全球最大的军火商获取最大的利益 US President George W. Bush has already decided on this year’s list of arms sales to Taiwan, and the highly anticipated “Burke-class” destroyers with Aegis defense systems are missing. However, the astonishing amount of arms transactions is likely to be the largest one in the United States’ arms sales to Taiwan in the recent 10 years, including four Kidd class destroyers. According to the analysis of Chinese military observers, the United States is using its unanimous determination to “abandon its armed forces” and its tough stance of “using armaments to safeguard it against Taiwan” to provoke an arms race between the two and ultimately make itself the world’s largest Arsenal for maximum benefit