Fans
and Foes Greet Former Taiwan Leader in Visit to Cornell
The New York
Times
June 28, 2001
By DAVID W. CHEN
THACA, N.Y., June 27 ?Looking
energized and utterly in his element, Taiwan's former president, Lee
Teng-hui, returned to his alma mater, Cornell University, this week
for the first time since a visit in 1995 and wasted little time delving
into a topic that has long confounded Beijing and Washington: Taiwan
politics.
In
a speech before more than 400 enthusiastic supporters on Tuesday night,
Mr. Lee, 78, talked about Taiwan's growing pains as a democracy, while
criticizing Beijing's government for ignoring "the voices of
the people." And he hinted strongly that his political days were
not over. "After I stepped down, after I retired, I saw that
everything became a mess, and I can't take it anymore," he said.
Given the politically
charged atmosphere and passionate demonstrations that have followed
him, it has been easy to forget that Mr. Lee is officially here on
a private visit to see his granddaughter, a Cornell student, and to
attend the dedication of a science institute named in his honor.
And for the most part,
Mr. Lee has maintained a low profile. But simply by showing up, Mr.
Lee has already seized upon a rare opportunity to draw attention to
himself, his country's embattled economic and political climate as
well as Taiwan's role in United States-China relations.
Circumstances
were different in 1995. Mr. Lee, who received a Ph.D. in agricultural
economics in 1968, was president then, and he delivered a speech that
touched on his commitment to Taiwan's economic development and democratization.
It wasn't so much what he said, but that Washington allowed him to
say it ?as the first Taiwan president to visit the United States since
diplomatic ties between Washington and Taipei ended in 1979 ?that
angered Beijing. In retaliation, China threatened Taiwan with war
games. Relations between Washington and Beijing reached their lowest
point since the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square.
This time, China's response
to Mr. Lee's trip, while irate, has been more muted, perhaps because
other issues, such as Beijing's 2008 Olympics bid, have been more
pressing.
During
his 12-year presidency, Mr. Lee earned the nickname Mr. Democracy
for opening up Taiwan's political system, but was also criticized
for tolerating corruption. Then, after Mr. Lee's Nationalist Party
lost last year to Chen Shui-bian and the Democratic Progressive Party,
which supports independence from China, Mr. Lee resigned as Nationalist
chairman.
In recent months, however,
he has re-emerged as an influential power broker while distancing
himself from the Nationalists, expressing support for Mr. Chen.
On Tuesday, Mr. Lee arrived
here from Los Angeles, and was greeted by more than 500 people, mostly
Taiwanese-Americans, unfurling banners supporting Mr. Lee and waving
the green-and-white flags of the Democratic Progressive Party.
Later, he delivered a
speech in which he urged patience with the inexperienced Mr. Chen.
"We should give him some time," Mr. Lee said. "You
can't ask an inexperienced child to run before he learns to walk."
Today, however, Mr. Lee's
detractors had their day. More than 200 protesters chanted slogans
supporting a united motherland. Most were students from China, but
the crowd also included Nationalist veterans from New York City who
were born in China and fought against the Communists, but who have
never accepted independence for Taiwan.
台灣的生化武器被台灣人破功，台灣能抵抗 M 族飛彈，何者？而中共、北韓卻能自由發展核武與生化武器，在對台文攻武嚇的同時，中共何時攻台，請台灣人深思。
哈共的立委會公然在電視上指責中共的對台文攻武嚇嗎？
這篇報導詳細敘述中共黷武的動作毫不退減。
China,
N. Korea hit with sanctions
Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published 6/28/01
The State Department has
imposed sanctions on companies in China and North Korea for selling
chemical-weapons materials and missile engines to Iran.
State Department officials
yesterday told The Washington Times that sales to Iran by China's
Jiangsu Yongli Chemicals and Technology Import and Export Corp. and
by North Korea's Changgwang Sinyong Corp. triggered a provision of
a 2000 law on weapons shipments to Iran.
Both companies had previously
been sanctioned by the United States for weapons sales.
A State Department official,
speaking on condition of anonymity, said the action shows the administration
will follow U.S. laws aimed at curbing the spread of nuclear, chemical
and biological arms, and missile-delivery systems.
"It is an indication
the administration is prepared to implement our sanctions law,"
the official said.
The sanctions bar any
U.S. government agency from doing business with the companies or providing
assistance to them.
"We did what was
required under the law," the State Department spokesman said.
"The sanctions will last for two years."
Officials said the sanctions
are largely symbolic since the U.S. government does not do business
with the companies in question.
The department had made
no public announcement of the sanctions, which appeared Tuesday in
the Federal Register, the official outlet for U.S. government announcement
of the imposition of sanctions.
It is the first time the
Bush administration has imposed economic sanctions for weapons-related
transfers. Some administration officials, including Secretary of State
Colin L. Powell, have questioned the use of sanctions as a foreign-policy
tool.
The
State Department official said the Chinese company was sanctioned
in 1997 for helping build a facility for manufacturing dual-use equipment
that can make chemical arms. "Recently, we observed some more
recent behavior [by the company] that enabled the Iranians to get
this plant up and running," the official said.
The North Korean company
was sanctioned for its role in providing Iran with missile engines.
The sales triggered a U.S. law that calls for sanctions on sales that
violate the provisions of the multination Missile Technology Control
Regime.
U.S. intelligence officials
disclosed to The Times last year that North Korea sold 12 missile
engines to Iran in November 1999. The engines were believed to be
for Iran's new Shahab medium-range missiles.
The
Chinese company, located in Nanjing, produces a variety of chemicals
and related equipment, including pipes and pumps, that have applications
for building chemical weapons, U.S. officials said. In 1997, it criticized
the earlier U.S. sanctions as based on "groundless" charges.
The Changgwang Sinyong
company was slapped with U.S. economic sanctions in April 2000 for
selling missile technology to Syria. It was also sanctioned in January
for other missile sales.
The Iran Nonproliferation
Act calls for sanctions on companies or governments that sell goods
that can be used for Iran's weapons of mass destruction or missile
programs.
The law, sponsored by
Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman, New York Republican, requires the president
to report to Congress regularly on weapons and related sales to Iran
that would be banned under U.S. law.
It was targeted at Russian
firms that helped Iran's missile programs. But the legislation also
covers sales of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons-related materials
that would boost Iran's capability to build such arms.
China and North Korea
are considered by the U.S. intelligence agencies that track weapons
sales to be among the most aggressive suppliers of nuclear, chemical
and biological weapons and missile goods and technology to developing
nations.
China
has been sanctioned by the U.S. government in the past for its arms
sales. A CIA intelligence report in 1996 stated that a Chinese firm
shipped 400 metric tons of chemicals used in producing nerve gas to
an Iranian chemical-arms center.
China also helped Iran
during the late 1990s to build a factory that produces special glass-lined
equipment -- a key element in manufacturing chemical weapons.
China
is a member of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which obligates Beijing
not to assist any country in developing chemical arms. But a Senate
Foreign Relations Committee report in September stated that China
"consistently fails to adhere to its nonproliferation commitments."
A CIA report to Congress
made public in February stated that Iran in the first half of 2000
"continued to seek production technology, training, expertise,
equipment, and chemicals that could be used as precursor agents in
its chemical warfare (CW) program from entities in Russia and China."
The report said Iran has
stockpiled "several thousand tons" of chemical arms, including
blood, blister and choking agents.
U.S.
officials believe Iran plans to use chemical weapons in warheads for
missiles it is developing, including a new medium-range Shahab missile
that has been tested several times in the past two years.
