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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (1858)	12/10/2003 12:40:21 PM
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China-Taiwan tension reaches boiling point again PRINT FRIENDLY EMAIL STORY PM - Wednesday, 10 December , 2003 18:18:49 Reporter: Mark Colvin MARK COLVIN: When China's President Hu Jintao addressed Federal Parliament in Canberra in October, one of the least remarked sections of his speech was a piece of rhetoric about what he called the Splittist activities of the Taiwanese independence forces. Yet it's the tension between China and Taiwan that represents one of the most enduring threats in our region and which today is at boiling point yet again. President George W. Bush, at a meeting in the White House with China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, warned Taiwan not to go ahead with what it's calling a "defensive" referendum. Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian responded speedily by saying the referendum would go ahead. Given that China is believed to have more than 100 ballistic missiles trained on Taiwan, and the US is pledged to defend the Taiwanese, this is not just some diplomatic incident. I'm joined on the line from Taipei by Dr Parris Chang, a legislator with Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party. ... abc.net.au