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...Call Leaves Beijing Cold BEIJING: Taiwanese President Lee Teng-Hui's conciliatory speech on Monday has elicited not much more than stony indifference from China's Foreign Ministry. Even though Lee offered to "meet and directly exchange opinions with the Chinese Communist leaders to open a new era in dialogue and cooperation," Beijing's only comment at a press briefing Tuesday was that the Taiwanese inauguration speech was an "internal affair." Even though Lee called Taiwanese independence unnecessary and impossible, which seemingly dovetails with Beijing's 'One China Policy,' the mainland remains unfriendly. China's Taiwan Affairs Office said...
...obvious reason that we can't read it and so can only admire it, more or less ignorantly, as abstract brush drawing. And yet its range of expressive power comes through marvelously in this show. At one extreme we see the almost chiseled formality of the 12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century Zen Buddhist monk Huai-su, who liked to work when drunk on rice wine. And somewhere in between is the long-arm forehand and backhand of the 16th century scholar...
...become one of East Asia's "economic miracles," with a per capita GNP today of $12,500. Even that transformation, though, is less startling than Taiwan's political revolution, culminating last Saturday in the presidential election. Voters ignored missile rattling from the mainland and gave current President Lee Teng-hui a strong mandate. He won 54% of the vote, more than twice that of his nearest rival. It was the first time the people of Taiwan had directly elected their leader--indeed, it was the first time a head of state had been popularly elected in the 4,000 years...
...pledged to a one-China policy, but Beijing has come to suspect that Washington is backing away from it. When the U.S. granted Lee Teng-hui a visa last year for a private visit to his alma mater, Cornell University, Beijing was irate. Hard-liners and moderates in the leadership may disagree on any number of questions, but they are of one mind when it comes to sovereignty over Taiwan; there is no room for compromise. "No leader in Beijing," says Ralph Cossa, executive director of Pacific Forum CSIS, a Honolulu think tank, "could survive if he lost Taiwan." Beijing...
TAIPEI: In the wake of President Lee Teng-hui's convincing win in Saturday's elections, Taiwan announced a plan today to ease its 47 year-old ban on direct trade with China. Taiwan Economic Minister Chiang Pin-kung will submit the proposal to the Taiwanese legislature sometime in June. China and Taiwan had been conducting low-level talks on economic cooperation last summer when China suspended them after Lee visited the United States -- a move Beijing viewed as a play towards seeking international recognition of Taiwan as a nation. Lee said he wants to seek stability for the island...