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To: Justa Werkenstiff who wrote (13072)	4/9/2000 4:18:00 PM
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China says Taiwan pushing towards "abyss of war" BEIJING, April 9 (Reuters) - Chinese state media said on Sunday that Taiwan's vice president-elect Annette Lu was looking to carry the island into an "abyss of war" by making pro-independence remarks. "It's clear she wants to push the people of Taiwan into the abyss of war," the People's Daily said in an advance release of a commentary scheduled for publication on Monday. State media began lambasting Lu on Friday after she was quoted making "separatist" remarks in an interview with a Hong Kong television station. The People's Daily, the flagship Communist Party newspaper, quoted Lu saying "Taiwan sovereignty is independent," and that Taiwan and the mainland were close geographically but that history had made them distant relatives. The statements by Lu, a traditionally pro-independence politician elected last month to lead the estranged island along with President-elect Chen Shui-bian, have landed her in the cross-hairs of a nasty state media campaign. People's Daily and Xinhua news agency articles are peppered with pejoratives, calling Lu "perverse," "shameless," a "traitor" and "scum of the nation." Lu on Saturday called China's criticism a distortion of fact, saying she wanted to improve ties with Beijing. "I have been very consistent to what I had said during the election campaign -- that I am more than willing to improve cross-strait relations with greatest sincerity and goodwill," she was quoted as saying by state television. The blunt attack on Chen's independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party six weeks before its May 20 inauguration indicated that China's wait-and-see policy announced after the election was crumbling. Chinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen has called on President-elect Chen to give a "full response" to Beijing's demand he embrace the "one China" policy as a precondition for talks. A military newspaper has warned him to "think carefully." Beijing demands that Chen embrace the "one China" policy -- that Taiwan and the mainland are parts of a united China -- as a precondition for cross straits talks. Beijing threatens to invade if Taiwan declares independence or delays reconciliation talks. Chen has offered to hold talks with Chinese leaders, and said he is willing to discuss the "one China" policy. But so far he has refused to embrace Beijing's formula.

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