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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery

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To: RealMuLan who wrote (1829)12/9/2003 12:17:49 PM
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US warns on referendum plan
Washington
December 10, 2003

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The Bush Administration issued an unusually strong warning to Taiwan yesterday not to hold a referendum that could fuel the island's independence movement.

The move apparently was an effort to quell a growing storm in Asia before it requires deeper US intervention.

The warning came a day before President George Bush was to meet China's new Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, at the White House.

The warning was unusually blunt and officials said they were abandoning three decades of deliberate ambiguity about how far either China or Taiwan could go in their constant manoeuvrings for the upper hand.

"What you're seeing here is the dropping of the ambiguity for both sides because we cannot sort of imply to the Taiwan side that we're sort of agnostic towards moves towards Taiwan independence," a senior Administration official said.

theage.com.au
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