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Strategies & Market Trends : Asia Forum
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (8882)7/21/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: Liatris Spicata  Read Replies (2) of 9980
 
Steven/Bosco-

<<The only conclusion I can reach is that Lee was reacting to and attempting to encourage the anti-Chinese climate which now exists in Washington DC.>>

Perhaps you should consider other possibilities. Here's another conclusion, from an unsigned op/ed in today's WSJ:

"It is becoming increasingly clear that President Lee spoke when and how he
did because Taipei has been under heavy-duty pressure from the
U.S.--applied chiefly by Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Stanley
Roth--to begin discussing reunification with Beijing. How Taipei could
negotiate anything from a position of diplomatic nothingness apparently does
not concern Mr. Roth. Indeed, in hindsight it now appears that Mr. Clinton's
decision last year to get 100% behind China's assertion of absolute
sovereignty over Taiwan was intended to construct just such a box around
Taipei. Already we are hearing whispers from Washington that Mr. Roth has
now decreed that all but State Department functionaries are forbidden to go
to Taipei: i.e., no one from Defense."

Larry

P.S. Bosco figures in here, with his suggestion that US acceptance of "one China" was a Jimmy Carter invention. I disagree, and so, apparently, does WSJ. Clinton has gone much further down that path than has any prior US president.
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