31.   It launched war games and fired test missiles near the nationalist island during its presidential election last March and has repeatedly threatened to invade if Taiwan goes it alone.

32.   China drew international condemnation Friday for firing test missiles close to Taiwan but an unrepentant President Jiang Zemin said the anti-nationalist campaign would not be stopped.

33.   The United States launched into orbit Thursday a satellite that will help test anti-ballistic missile systems, the Air Force announced.

34.   The document, which sources told AFP was genuine, was leaked to the paper ahead of the launching by China of test missiles close to Taiwan on Friday.

35.   The degrees of longitude and latitude given by Xinhua indicated the new test missiles would fall northwest of Taiwan and just off the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian.

36.   The ministry Friday confirmed that China fired three test missiles into two zones just off the Taiwanese ports of Keelung and Kaohsiung at opposite ends of the island.