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To: GST who wrote (149707)	10/29/2004 4:44:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Does a country's sovereignty come from the pronouncements of foreign diplomats? Tim

To: GST who wrote (149707)	10/29/2004 4:57:10 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

Kung Pao Taiwan Powell’s remarks in Taiwan are Asia’s “Chicken Kiev.” ...The United States has never taken the position that Taiwan does not "enjoy sovereignty as a nation." The United States has been very careful for over 50 years not to take a position at all on the matter of Taiwan's sovereignty. While there may well be only "one China," that "one China" doesn't necessarily include Taiwan. And while the United States may not recognize the "Republic of China" (the official name of the regime in Taipei) as the Chinese government, the United States treats the Taipei government as an independent country for all intents and purposes. One simple reason for this is that Section 4(b)(1) of the Taiwan Relations Act, passed by Congress in April 1979 after President Jimmy Carter broke relations with Taipei in favor of Beijing, states clearly: "Whenever the laws of the United States refer or relate to foreign countries, nations, states, governments, or similar entities, such terms shall include and such laws shall apply with respect to Taiwan." As a matter of policy, therefore, the United States does not accept China's claims to sovereignty over Taiwan. In September 1982, the State Department wrote Sen. John East that "the United States takes no position on the question of Taiwan's sovereignty." In his "Six Assurances" to Taiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo on July 14, 1982, President Ronald Reagan promised that the United States "had not changed its long-standing position on the matter of sovereignty over Taiwan." And what was that long-standing position? The State Department informed the U.S. Senate in 1970 (that's right, in 1970) that, "as Taiwan and the Pescadores are not covered by any existing international disposition, sovereignty over the area is an unsettled question subject to future international resolution." It is an important footnote of history that even while the Republic of China's government-in-exile maintained its provisional capital in Taipei, the United States did not recognize that Chinese government's sovereignty over Taiwan. (The U.S. only recognized "the Government of the Republic of China as legitimately occupying and exercising jurisdiction over Taiwan....")... nationalreview.com