July 4, 2000 --- To: Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Madeleine Korbel Albright, Trent Lott, Denny Hastert

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Dear Mr. President Bill Clinton,
　 　Mr. Vice President Al Gore,
　 　Mrs. Madeleine Korbel Albright,
　 　Mr. Trent Lott,
　　 Mr. Denny Hastert,

About Putin and CIS-the leaders of 11 other former Soviet Republics, it revealed the same viewpoint “it is dangerous, they could have serious consequences if they upset the balance of power” that focus on the U.S.’s missile defense system.

May 26 1972 Russia-United States made a deal of anti-Ballistic Missile treaty in which Putin has the right to reject suspected American’s motivation in defense system.

Despite the projection would work or not, poor Russia that struggling for internal affair of economy which people want stability over military and earn more much money.

In my view; it need concern about defense mechanism more than defense system.

We found that Taipei-Beijing-Moscow-Washington intricate relationship will affect the future of Asia-Pacific Stability.

Mainland China’s economy is growing at a pace faster than any other country in Asia, in short; mainland could not depend on Taiwan’s economic support.

To say clearly; Beijing has its own way to deal with Taiwan, in recent years Taiwan’s declining labor-intensive industries have found a second life in the mainland.

On the other hand; Taiwan’s trade balance would have been in the red without the mainland market.

Beijing considers Taiwan a renegade province and officials said they would closely observe the words and actions of President Chen following his election.

In his inauguration speech in May, Chen acknowledged mainland China’s inalienable sovereignty and territory, promised not to declare independence but did not acknowledged the People’s Republic of China as the sole legitimate ruler of China. Beijing has said he sidestepped the ‘one China’ issue.

We had a nightmare of the post, but now, the real, mature democracy was achieved by people of Taiwan.

On the other hand, this kind of democratic system would be the model of Asia’s value.

Unfortunately; the Beijing was stuck with the taboo of territory’s confusion, it is not accepted by Taiwanese people, because the people’s will always the best choice for democratic system over Taiwan situation.

We want to help China mainland that Taiwan has much to share with the Chinese in terms of its current experience and democratic upgrading.

In short; Taiwan’s democracy is whole Chinese wishes. After 5000, Taiwan create new era of miracle in politics and economics. We do not go back to hegemony again. Taiwan needs your support. If you have time you would review http://taiwantt.org.tw--- --you could find details.

Mainland China is helping Iran and Syria develop more advanced surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, the Israeli Ha’aretz daily reported Sunday, citing “U.S. sources.” The sources said that despite protests from Israel and the United States, Beijing is helping Teheran and Damascus to build a factory to make missile engines, guidance systems and solid fuels.

According to the Israeli daily, mainland Chinese support for the missile projects is mainly being implemented in Iran, and consists of selling Teheran materials for the development of long-rang rocket fuels, the setting up of a factory for constructing the NP 110 missile engine and the transfer of missile guidance systems. Experts consider these fields crucial to the development of long-rang missiles, Ha’aretz pointed out, and the guidance systems can also be used in shorter-rang missiles, such as Scuds.

Hong Kong’s Chief Secretary Anson Chan on Thursday rebuked a mainland Chinese official for warning local businesses against dealing with Taiwan firms supporting independence for the island.

“In our view, business decisions are best left to businessmen and should not invite the interference of any official of whatever status,” a stern-faced Chan told reporters.

“The (Hong Kong) government has consistently stressed that trade and business matters should be kept strictly separate and apart from political considerations. It is inappropriate for any political consideration to affect business decision.” The remarks from the top lieutenant of leader Tung Chee-hwa came after He Zhiming, vice-director of the Central Government’s Liaison Office’s Taiwan Affairs Department, said local businesses which indulged in trade with companies that supported independence for Taiwan were “taking a risk.”

His comments, in a speech to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, was the second time in less than two months that a member of the former Xinhua News Agency had issued a warning to Hong Kong people over Taiwan.

“Individual leading business figures have, on the one hand, openly supported Taiwan independence on the island, and on the other, obtained advantages from their economic activities in the mainland,” he said.

“This is absolutely not permitted. I believe all of you, on listening to these remarks, will know how to choose when seeking Taiwan trading partners,” he said.

The remarks drew concern from Hong Kong people who have long been accustomed to a freewheeling capitalist system which Beijing has promised would remain unchanged for 50 years after this former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

Under terms of the handover, Hong Kong is to enjoy a high degree of autonomy under a “one country, two systems” formula.

“I really am at a loss as to why the central government would do this to Hong Kong people. I can understand their anxiety concerning the independence of Taiwan...We’re thoroughly opposed to that. But how does this help?” Lee said.

He’s remarks bore close resemblance to another controversy in April, when the Deputy Director of the Central Government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong, Wang Fengchao, said Hong Kong media should not report views advocating Taiwan independence.

Wang’s remarks drew the wrath of journalists and pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong and raised concerns about press freedom in this former British colony.

Commenting on He’s remarks, prominent businessman and legislator James Tien said: “Such remarks could contain an element of threat. That’s not good.”

Chan’s disapproval of He’s remarks was clear. “It is quite clear that his remarks have already raised the widespread concern, particularly of the business sector here in Hong Kong.”

The Hong Kong government earlier said Tung had contacted the Liaison Office and its director had indicated that the office would not interfere with Hong Kong’s commercial activities.

On the other hand, Beijing’s power is spreading to everywhere that including economic and military force.

President Chen Shui-bian has tried hard to nurture a sense of optimism about Taiwan’s relationship with the mainland. His widely publicized efforts have raised expectations, but in reality, relations between the two sides have not improved but instead are seemingly deteriorating.

Washington is the only source of optimism, occasionally releasing encouraging stories which say the two sides are moving closer to resuming talks. But the words and deeds of Taipei and Beijing indicate that they are far from ready to resolve their differences. Both remain engaged in the game of double-talk. Taiwan’s anti-Chinese communism and the mainland’s anti-Taiwan independence nationalism appear uncompromisable.

Taipei’s new government, supposedly made up of fresh open-minded scholars and experts, seems to be just as close-minded as its predecessor, especially in mainland policy formulation and implementation.

President Chen has repeatedly voiced eagerness to establish direct trade, postal and transport links, known as the “three links,” with the mainland. Yet his aides say there is “no urgency” and “we have to wait for Beijing's goodwill.”

Beijing has started to harass and intimidate those Taiwan investors who are known supporters of President Chen and his pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party. This surprising about-face breaks a along-standing policy that encouraged Taiwan’s people to do business with the mainland, regardless of their political stripe. Communist officials have also issued a series of stern warnings to other Taiwan businesses not to support the island’s independence and the DPP if they want to continue operations in mainland China.

A Hong Kong-based Beijing official even wagged his finger at Hong Kong business executives, warning that those who trade with firms that support Taiwan independence were “taking a risk.” The Hong Kong government responded swiftly and bluntly to reject the Beijing representative’s intimidating comments, accusing him of “mixing business with politics” and violating the “one country, two system” principle. But the message has already left an imprint in people’s minds.

Across the strait, in Taipei, there has been persistent talk about introducing a “national security tax” for the same group of Taiwan businessmen for making investments on the mainland.

The theory is that these Taiwan investors are operating in enemy territory, which may compromise the interests and security of the Taiwan people who remain behind. The idea was first introduced by candidate Chen Shui-bian during the presidential campaign. It was proposed again recently by professor S.M. Chen, a deputy mayor of Taipei when the president was the mayor. The economics professor of National Taiwan University will become a deputy governor of the Central Bank of China in August.

The tax proposal has drawn strong opposition from the Taiwan business community, which has plowed US$40 billion into mainland China's economy since the ‘80s, when trade between the two sides began. Around 44,000 Taiwan investment cases have been operating on the mainland, bringing home US$130 billion in trades surplus since 1990.

Public uproar has forced the new government to say the tax proposal was only a scholar’s idea and not a policy option under consideration. But suspicion has spread far and wide.

Upon Chen’s election victory in March, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (parliament), took its first concrete step of goodwill toward the mainland by ending a 51-year ban on direct exchanges of goods and people between several of Taiwan’s small islands and the mainland. The lift was meant to legalize the “mini-three links” between offshore islets and nearby mainland ports. It was also expected to accelerate opening of the “three links” between Taiwan proper and the mainland.

At the same time, leading members of the triumphant DPP suggested dropping a clause in the party platform that advocates the establishment of the “Republic of Taiwan” and independence from China. The gesture won applause from the public who felt relieved of worries about military attacks from the anti-independence mainland with a pro-independence party now ruling the island.

That was the last glimmer that Chen’s victory might result in better relations with the other side. There has been no more talk about rewriting the DPP’s platform, hence, the ruling party remains literally committed to overthrowing the government headed by its own leader. Neither is the new government taking any concrete steps to promote the “mini-three links,” not to mention the main "three links." Despite all the rhetoric of goodwill, Taipei and Beijing remain slaves of suspicion. Goodwill is felt, not proclaimed. Words and deeds must match to rid the two sides of the seeds of mistrust.

Contrary to China’s threat Taiwanese people gave a clearly choice that new president Chen won in democratic election. Nevertheless, Taiwan crisis tests U.S. resolve in democracy support.

In spite of United State’s internal problems that relating to gun-control cause and young violence, the international duty over international law, it needs U.S. to widen its responsibility.

We thought that U.S. is a hope of justice in our world.

In our view, Beijing’s power would affect the future of world’s peace it could shake the situation of U.S.

However, the definite watchdog commission over any big deal with China should be going first.

Inspired by the historic Korean talks, Taiwan’s new leader on Tuesday made one of his strongest appeals to China to join him at a summit and discuss disputes that have separated the two sides for five decades.

“We have a lot of international trends behind us,” said Chen, a former Taiwan mayor and democracy activist.

In response to mainland Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji’s comments that the presidential election in Taiwan which produced the first democratic transfer of power in Chinese history was a “joke,” a spokesman for Taiwan said Beijing had no understanding of democracy.

“Zhu Rongji has never been to Taiwan. He is not familiar enough with the experience of democracy,” said Chen Ming-tong, vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC).

The controversy first started when Zhu was talking to Italian reporters in Beijing ahead of his visit to Rome next month and said: “If you say the president there was democratically elected, we reckon that’s a joke.”

Without mentioning President Chen Shui-bian by name, Zhu also questioned President Chen’s mandate and experience and dismissed the island’s political system as corrupt.

“Did Taiwan’s so-called elections give him that high an evaluation? In Taiwan, he got only 40 percent of the vote,” Zhu said, according to a transcript of the Monday interview obtained by Reuters from the Italian news agency ANSA.

“He has no administrative experience whatsoever and even they concede that Taiwan’s politics are ‘black gold’ politics,” Zhu said, using the term in Taiwan parlance for political corruption.

MAC spokesman Chen said in response that Zhu was welcome to visit the island to witness the ROC’s democracy firsthand.

We also hope mainland China’s grassroots elections could improve gradually and we will one day see mainland China have a real peaceful transfer of power,” he added, referring to mainland China’s fledging village polls.

The MAC official said the PRC’s current stage of democratic evolution is just like the ROC’s was 20 to 30 years ago, with a single-party authoritarian government and elections at the grassroots. He said the ROC’s democracy was a source of “pride” for its people and urged Beijing to follow world trends and have its own peaceful transfer of power democratically.

He also welcomed U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright’s intended visit to mainland China next month, saying she could form a “bridge of goodwill” between Taipei and Beijing. But he added it was ultimately up to two sides themselves to resolve their differences.

Chen was speaking at a public hearing on the recent icebreaking summit between the two Koreas organized by People First Party (PFP) lawmakers at the Legislature yesterday.

PFP Legislator Chou Hsi-wei urged President Chen Shui-bian to cast aside the traditional bureaucratic stereotypes for negotiation with Beijing and use new, flexible means such as “track two” --- Taipei’s term for unofficial negotiations with another country in the absence of formal diplomatic ties.

Chou also said South Korea had given North Korea much encouragement and that should also be a model for Taipei’s leaders. But PFP Legislator Cheng Chin-ling said the two sides actually did have a precondition --- they both believed in “one Korea.”

But while Taipei wants to talk with Beijing, what it actually wants to talk about still bears further consideration, she said.

On Tuesday, Beijing ignored a call by President Chen for a summit with mainland Chinese President Jiang Zemin, merely reiterating its longstanding demand that Taipei embrace its principle that there is only one China, of which Taiwan is an inseparable part.

--- by the China Post staff with agencies

Mainland China is the only regional power enjoying good ties with both North Korea and South Korea and help arrange the summit an easing of tensions between the Koreas would undercut U.S. arguments to deploy anti-missile shield as protection against North Korea. Beijing sees the defense systems as a security threat.

Far the more: on Putin’s position he would promise to back up North Korea military and help North Korea develop an ballistic missile to spite the United States.

In short; Beijing in the last years had been aiming its long-range missiles at the United States to keep it from being the only hegemonic superpower in the world.

On the contrary; the opinions of Taiwan side that Taiwan’s democratic education is rooting on the island, it is every difficult to go back hegemony again.

In my personal view; United States should deploy new strategical relationship between Europe-Russia-China-Taiwan over future tension.

President Chen Shui-bian said for the first time in public that he accepts a 1992 consensus made by Beijing and Taipei that the two sides can both acknowledge “one China” but still disagree on the meaning of the term.

But he hastened to say that Beijing is now denying the consensus was ever made and will not acknowledge it.

Speaking with the head of the Asia Foundation. William Fuller, Chen said he agreed with the 1992 consensus made verbally by negotiators from Taipei’s Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and Beijing’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan (ARATS).

The consensus was permitted only under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping when the PRC government’s foremost priority was modernizing mainland China rather than resolving the cross-strait dilemma.

Reports say that even before Chen’s statement yesterday, the new government urged Beijing via secret envoys and unofficial channels to return this consensus but was consistently rebuffed.

Chen added that he hoped the two sides could start their semi-official communications again and find a definition of “one China” that was palatable to both of them.

He said he hopes the two sides could resolve their differences and find common ground. He promised that if they met, it would be without any preconditions.

Beijing has been pushing for Taipei to return to its cherished “one China” principle ever since Chen was elected president.

But President Chen never said that he would accept any version of the principle, until yesterday.

He added that Beijing viewed the “one China” as the PRC, a definition that the people of Taiwan would never accept. According to Chen, the government’s top priority was restoring peaceful relations with the mainland, and the ideas about mainland China outlined in his inauguration speech had high support domestically.　

In my personal view, President Chen said he agreed with the 1992 consensus made verbally by negotiators from Taipei’s Strait Exchange Foundation (SEF) and Beijing’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS), it means he would accept any version of the principle.

Obviously; Chen’s goodwill is out of question about restoring peaceful relations with mainland.

In short; the one China would accept in Taiwan side is ROC that in Beijing side is PRC.

Taiwan needs your support.