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To: LindyBill who wrote (102136)2/25/2005 5:44:28 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 793864
 
Good! This balances off the joint USA/Japan statement.

Taiwan Won't Shut Door on China Unification

Thu Feb 24, 2:11 AM ET

By STEPHAN GRAUWELS, Associated Press Writer

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian told an opposition leader Thursday that he would not shut the door on eventual unification with rival China if Beijing expressed goodwill.

Chen and People First Party Chairman James Soong signed a joint declaration at the end of the meeting, their first formal talks since Oct. 2000. Chen has been hoping to smooth over differences with Soong because his PFP is a key partner in an opposition alliance that controls the majority in the legislature.

The two leaders have held widely diverging views on how to handle China, which claims the self-ruled island is part of its territory and threatens to go to war if Taipei declares formal independence.

Soong has accused Chen of lacking a consistent China policy and of provoking Beijing, while the president has accused the opposition of being too accommodating toward the communist giant.

But in their joint declaration, they promised that they would "not rule out the possibility of any model of relationship evolving on the basis of goodwill."

Chen repeated previous assurances that he would not declare independence, change the island's official name of "Republic of China," nor hold any referendums on those issues during his term, which ends in May 2008.

Chen's more ardent supporters want to drop the reference to China in the island's name, a move likely to provoke China.
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