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...rarely does one become an international incident. From the moment last year that Cornell University asked a distinguished graduate to address an alumni gathering, policymakers for the U.S. and China knew they had a first-class hot potato on their hands. The invitee was Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, whose government is unrecognized by most of the world thanks to China's strenuous efforts to keep it isolated. Could Lee visit a onetime ally that cut off relations 16 years ago? The issue seemed strictly academic as long as Washington upheld its policy of barring top-level Taiwan officials from...
PRESIDENT LEE TENG-HUI China fumes as Taiwan's head of state is granted a U.S. visa...
...Clinton Administration today officially acknowledged that it will grant the president of Taiwan a visa allowing the Cornell University alumnus to appear at his alma mater. President Lee Teng-hui, who has been invited to address an alumni reunion at Cornell's Ithaca, N.Y. campus, in June, would be the first leader of Taiwan to visit the U.S. since 1979, when Washington recognized Beijing as the sole government of China. (China regards Taiwan, the seat of the Nationalist Chinese who fled the communist takeover of the Chinese mainland in 1949, as a renegade province.) The State Department has been loath...
Instead of screaming at the U.S. for meddling, China should openly approach the Tibetan issue and begin negotiations with the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled political and spiritual leader. China's current policy of flooding Tibet with Han Chinese and Hui muslim immigrants heightens tensions and the potential for violence there. For the past 25 years the Tibetan independence movement has been exclusively non-violent, and for Asia's sake, it should stay...
...have expected. Parisians think the building is too ... Parisian. Critics have complained that it is not bold and Californian enough. Gehry "has abandoned a bit of his wild, spontaneous quality in order to cater to a Parisian norm," charges Francois Chaslin, editor of the influential monthly Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. "The result is more ordinary, less powerful than his other buildings...