Dear Mr. Vice President Al Gore,
　　 Mr. Newt Gingrich,
　　 Mr. Trent Lott,

ROC President Lee Teng-hui, in a speech to the national unification council on Wednesday(July 22, 1998).

Lee said China has to be reunified. But he stressed reunification must be achieved under a democratic system, not the communist system--- one which has proved to be a failure world wide.

Lee also set forth six major principles in administering relations with mainland China. They are

A. Taiwan is a sovereign political entity. A fact which must not be denied by Beijing, while there is only one China, this nation has been divided for the last half a century, with Taiwan and the Chinese mainland ruled by two separate government.

B. No timetable need be set for the reunification of China. Any peaceful unification process must be determined by the extent of democratization on the Chinese mainland and the development of relations across the Taiwan Strait.

C. Before reunification, the people of the Republic of China on Taiwan must have the right to fully defend themselves. And before reunification, the ROC, to meet the needs of survival and development for its people, must have the right to participate in international activities.

D. The two sides of the Taiwan Strait should expand exchanges, replace antagonism with cooperation and eliminate animosity, through reciprocity so as to create the favorable foundations for peaceful unification.

E. Taiwan and the Chinese mainland should negotiate and sign a peace agreement to end the state of hostility in accordance with the reality of a divided China and based on the principles of equality and mutual respect.

F. Taiwan experience is a kind of experience achieved by Chinese people, with

Chinese wisdom, on Chinese land, and must be suitable to the conditions of the

Chinese nation. "We are willing to share this experience with our mainland

compatriots in favor of efforts to jointly create a free, democratic and

economically prosperous China" Lee added.

From a view of human history; the Chinese believed that in the beginning the world was a formless indivisible whole. There was no distinction between heaven and hell, fire and water, day and night; there was neither birth nor death, growth nor decay; all imaginable things were merged together without definition in an unchanging unity. Had man existed, he would have remained forever incapable of evolution, a static and perfect image.

For life as we know it to be possible with all its richness and variety, its infinite potentialities for good and ill, this world had to be split in two. The Unity had to become a duality; and from this duality arose the idea of the complementary opposites, the negative and the positive, which the Chinese called the Yin and the Yang. These two principles are at the very root of the Chinese way of life; they pervade all their art, literature and philosophy and are therefore also embodied in their theories of traditional medicine, and the Chinese history.

On the other hand, if we give a tolerant time for unification, that no war happen, if we lost the patience for unification that we have war.

If U.S. take art in cross-straits business that "focus" must broad hint on "tolerant point of reciprocation". So that Taiwan need your help.