Dear Mr. Kofi A. Annan,

Beijing is keen to secure from Japan the same "three no's" vow that Clinton made in Shanghai in July, 1998. --- No support for Taiwan independence, "for two Chinas" or "one China, one Taiwan" or for Taiwan's membership in organizations requiring statehood.

The ROC says communist China cannot be trusted, noting that Beijing was actively wooing Taipei's diplomatic allies even as senior envoy Koo was in Beijing for unprecedented "ice-breaking" meetings with President and communist party chief Jiang. Mainland China's willingness to talk did not mean any let up in its drive to squeeze the ROC off the political map.

This indicates that the Chinese communist authorities have no goodwill or sincerity in improving their relations with Taipei with defections by South Africa, Guinea-Bissau, the Central African Republic and now Tonga in 1998 alone, there now are only 26 states with embassies in Taipei rather than Beijing-mostly small, poor states in Africa, Latin America and the Pacific.

Beijing has been pressuring Taiwan to accept its "one China principle" and "one country, two systems" unification formula, under which the ROC is downgraded to a local government or a special administrative region jurisdiction. This is completely unacceptable to Taiwan.

Taiwan has 50 years of experience in democratization and that Taipei is willing to exchange view with Beijing on the issue. Moreover, democratization will become an important subject in future cross-strait talks. The reason is very simple, communist China can not be accepted by democratic Taiwan people.

It is not the just time for Beijing to urge on issue of mainland - Taiwan reunification, over political negotiation.

So, Taiwan need your support.