Dear Miss Condoleezza Rice,  

Seoul, May 4 ---  
North Korea’s leader has pledged he will keep past promises to Washington and Seoul to show that he wants good relations, but Kim Jong Il said he cannot afford to stop selling missiles, according to European officials who met him this week.

Kim said his missile sales to other countries are “part of trade. If he finds people who want to buy it, he will sell it,” said Javier Solana, chief of foreign policy and security affairs for the European Union.

North Korean has threatened to pull out of a 1994 deal with the US that froze its nuclear program, saying Washington was not living up to its end of the bargain and demanding compensation.

North Korea agreed in 1994 to shut down a Soviet-era graphite moderated reactor, which Washington had suspected was developing weapons, in exchange for two light-water reactors (LWR) to be built by a US led international consortium.

In short, who is the boss of North Korea, Kim or Beijing over North Korea’s deal?

President Chen Shui-bian May 1, 2001 repeated his call on Beijing to engage in dialogue with Taiwan’s government, saying the only way to improve cross-strait relations is to directly contact the ruling DPP, not opposition politicians or businessmen.

“Beijing’s courting of Taiwan’s opposition politicians and leaders of industry to force the government to change its policies is of no use to the cross-strait situation,” Chen said.

Chen made his remarks yesterday during a television conference via satellite with the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank based in New York.

For about Washington’s concern that TMD approaches are intended to defend against threats or attacks from rogue states as well as from accidental or unauthorized launches.

China was not prepared to soften its opposition to a National Missile Defense scheme and a Theater Missile Defense (TMD), proposed to protected allies such as Japan or US troops in northeast Asia.

China was “more opposed to TMD” because it would strengthen US military alliances in Asia beyond legitimate defense needs – a reference to US-Japan security ties and joint studies of missile defenses.

“We more strongly oppose calls by some people to involve Taiwan in TMD, which would violate China’s sovereignty,” Beijing said.

China should haul away hundreds of missiles deployed across from Taiwan so the two rivals can build closer economic ties and even jointly play host to the Olympics, Taiwan’s outspoken vice president said May 16, 2001.

China’s speedy buildup of missiles along its southeastern coasts recent years has turned the region into “ the biggest flashpoint of the century,” Annette Lu said.

Before China ends its military threat against the country, Taiwan must bolster its security with more defensive weapons and seek diplomatic or moral support from the international community, Lu said.

“We harbor no hostility, but we cannot demand peace when we feel timid ourselves,” she said.

In our viewpoint, Taiwan leaders could do force in peaceful and soft words on the issues of cross-strait affairs.

On the other hand, Taiwan was isolated its military training system about 12 years for the beginning of China’s fever, since Sino-US’ love story.

Washington Post May 18, 2001 ---
Whether Taiwan is more like Israel or Panama in terms of its combat strength yesterday became a point of dispute between lawmakers and defense leaders at the legislature.

The argument stemmed from a report by the Washington Post on April 25, which quoted an anonymous US defense official as saying: “Before we came, we thought we’d find Israel; instead we found Panama.”

The US should shift the focus of its military presence in Asia toward the Philippines and other nations closer to potential hot spots such as Taiwan, a Pentagon-sponsored study says.

For decades, US administrations have issued vague statements on whether the US would actually go to war with China over Taiwan, as opposed to arming Taiwan well enough to enable the country to defend itself.

Taiwan was weaken by Clinton’s administration for a long time. The island’s defense was shortening. Taiwan needs your help.

Angina pectoris as Beijing; once again, the World Health Organization (WHO) has voted to reject a proposal to allow Taiwan into the organization. The WHO’s Constitution says in its preamble, “The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.”

How could an organization whose main objective is supposed to be “health for all” find any justification in excluding Taiwan for five years in a row despite annual requests for entry? How could the WHO completely ignore the rights of Taiwan’s 23 million people to basic health? How could the WHO’s lofty objectives be seen as anything but hollow rhetoric in the light of such an act?

Of course, the Beijing regime, which masterminded this puerile act, is not known for its humanity, sense of fairness or respect for human rights. Beijing’s fictitious claim that “the PRC already represents Taiwan within the WHO,” is anything by the truth. Since its inception in 1949, the PRC has never ruled Taiwan for a single day. Much less has the Beijing government provided any meaningful help to Taiwan during epidemic outbreaks and disasters. This makes Beijing’s claims of “brotherhood” with the people of Taiwan even more ludicrous.

For above reasons that communist China could expand its military power over issues of international affairs. The United States would face the new conflicts from Beijing in the near future.

Taiwan is the first frontier on crises.

                                                                Yours Sincerely,