Dear Mr. Colin Powell,

We think everyone had known that the Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese control.

In Taiwan ex-president Lee is nicknamed “Mr. Democracy” because he presided over sweeping democratic reforms, including the first direct president election in 1996, which he won moderately.

Unfortunately; both countries as Taiwan and Tibet are threatened by China’s force while Washington and Beijing worked to bridge the gap between the “regret” and “sorry” expressed by President Bush and Mr. Powell.

We heard that “regret and sorry are not enough,” said Beijing authority. Chinese nationalism revealed some of anti-U.S. atmosphere. “We miss chairman Mao.” “The Chinese people won’t accept the release of the crew without an apology,” Huang, 28, an engineer said as he sat near a group of 50 students who had gathered on a broad lawn to discuss the incident. “If President Jiang does that, they won’t forgive him and I won’t forgive him,” he said. 

Singapore’s Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew has urged the United States to take an uncompromising stance towards China in the current spy plane standoff, according to a report in a German magazine on April 10, 2001.

“Just as NATO opposed the Soviet Union and checked its hunger for power, China’s power has to be contained,” Lee is quoted saying in a report of the interview provided to Reuters on Tuesday by the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche.

The U.S. and China are currently at odds over the fate of 24 crew members from a spy plane which was forced to make an emergency landing on Hainan Island after colliding with a Chinese jet fighter.

Lee, who at 77 is still one of the region’s most influential politicians, said he feared southeast Asian countries could be run over by a China that is growing economically stronger.

“We need a long-term presence of the Americans in the region,” Lee said.

“In the power struggle surrounding the spy plane, the new relationship is being tested,” he said.

He said also that China’s power would eventually pressure the island.

Lee, Singapore’s former prime minister who is credited with much of the state’s success, “If I look at China’s increasing power, Singapore’s red dot on the map becomes smaller,” Lee said in the interview.

We don’t think expressing regret or sorry over the death of the pilot and EP-3 spy plane crisis, shows weakness in Washington. The importance of solving over Washington-Beijing conflicts has many ways of showing that’s not weak.

We think the responsibility under the Taiwan relations Act with adequate and appropriate assets to defend itself could against a possible attack from mainland China, whether or not 24 crewmen get returned or not.

There are many accidents were reported by ---

․April 7, 2001: A helicopter carrying nine Vietnamese and seven U.S. military

․April 1, 2001: A U.S. Navy EP-3 aircraft and a Chinese F-8 fighter jet collide over the South China Sea. The Chinese jet and pilot were still missing a week after the incident, and the pilot was feared dead.

․March 26, 2001:Two U.S. Air Force F-15s crash in the Scottish Highlands during

a low-flying training mission, killing both pilots.

․March 26, 2001: A U.S. Army RC-12 plane crashes near Nuremberg, Germany during a routine training mission, killing both pilots.

․March 12, 2001: Four U.S. Army soldiers, one U.S. Air Force airman and a New Zealander special forces officer are killed when a U.S. plane accidentally drops two bombs onto the air traffic control area in Kuwait.

․March 3, 2001: Eighteen members of the Virginia Air National Guard and three Army crewmen die in the crash of a C-23 twin engine turboprop that is ferrying soldiers from Florida to Virginia.

․Feb. 9, 2001: The U.S. Navy’s USS Greeneville submarine sinks a Japanese trawler after colliding with it, killing nine civilians.

It showed that, the cooperation with allies needs contact more of closely communication, in which would share the security in everywhere of conflicts at anytime.

Let’s work hand in hand in turning Washington-Taipei-Beijing into a land of peace, righteousness and compassion.

However, peaceful purpose could achieve in balance of powerful force always.

Democratic Taiwan is worth to concern.

                                                                 Yours Sincerely,