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To: SOROS who wrote (630)	10/13/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: SOROS	of 1151

Inside China Today - 10/13/98 BEIJING, Oct. 13, 1998 -- (Agence France Presse) China insisted Tuesday, ahead of a landmark top level meeting between Beijing and Taipei, that it will not renounce its right to use force to reunify with Taiwan. "We are trying to reach a peaceful reunification of the motherland, but we do not commit to give up military means," Foreign Ministry spokesman Tang Guoqiang told a news briefing. "This is not directed against our compatriots in Taiwan. This is directed instead at foreign interference in the internal affairs of China," Tang added. Koo Chen-fu, chairman of Taiwan's semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) is due in China on Wednesday to hold talks with his mainland counterpart Wang Daohan. Koo and Wang, the chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), met for the first time in Singapore in 1993 to try to bring together the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, which separated since the end of a bitter civil war in 1949. The historic meeting launched negotiations which China broke off three years ago after Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui visited the United States, in what the mainland saw as a pro-independence bid. China staged war games off Taiwan then in a bid to warn the island against going it alone. Beijing views the nationalist island as a renegade province and worked to strangle any moves seen to be encouraging independence. Tang said that after Koo's visit, ARATS and SEF, would make further and specific arrangements for personal exchanges between the two sides of the Strait. "As to a meeting between the leaders of the two sides of the Strait, we have always welcomed the visits of the leaders of the Taiwan authorities in an appropriate capacity. "We are also willing to accept the invitation of the Taiwan side to visit Taiwan," he said. On the possibility of Lee visiting the mainland, Tang said China had "indicated on many occasions that Taiwan leaders should come back to the 'one China' principle and adopt effective measures to promote the development of cross strait relations." He said that only in so doing could the visit be of realistic significance.

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